Sciatica exercises are absolutely the best way to alleviate your sciatic nerve pain BUT you need to know which exercises are right for you.

Some will be very good for you AND SOME WON'T - you need to know the difference! This is why Muscle Balance Therapy is so effective in sciatica pain relief because it gives you a system where you first of all analyze your own particular muscle imbalances that have led to YOUR sciatic nerve pain.

Before you perform sciatica exercises, you need to know which of your muscles to stretch and which to strengthen - this is vital for the correct treatment of your sciatica. The video below explains a little more about the way Muscle Balance Therapy works:

Sciatica Exercises Using Muscle Balance Therapy

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However, you may find the following simple sciatica exercises temporarily useful to release some of the tightness in your muscles. I show the whole video below, then it's broken down for you to give you step-by-step instructions to make sure you're performing this sciatica stretch effectively:

Simple Sciatica Exercises

Start lying flat on your back. Once you’re on your back, lift up your affected leg (example for right leg here). Bring your right foot up and place it over the top of the left knee. Reach through with your right hand in between your legs , take your left hand and go around the outside of the left knee, grab that left knee with both hands and pull it in towards your chest:

As you do this you are going to start feeling stretching down through the gluteal and hip area(as pictured)

This is the standard version of this stretch. As great as this works, there are some ways you can modify it to make it more effective.

One is to do the same stretch but with the knee in a different position (as pictured):

Then pull up, but instead of reaching through your legs, place both arms just over the top and pulling in as pictured:

If you can, take the right hand, put pressure on your gluteal muscle and pull across your body, so your right hand is pushing across the mid line of your body and the left leg is pulling up at the same time:

Another thing you could do is a little bit of ‘dynamic removing stretching’. Go into the position as pictured:

Pull across as shown:

Then come back. Relax, Stretch and Relax for a few times.

These are just a couple of variations that you can use to relieve tightness in the gluteals and piriformis muscle but you must remember that even if this helps you, it’s only one piece of the puzzle. What you are doing here is releasing some of the tightness in those muscles. You’re not addressing your muscle imbalances. To address your muscle imbalances, you not only need to perform sciatica exercises that will stretch the tight muscles, you also need to identify and strengthen the weak muscles. So, for example, if your piriformis muscle is tight, that’s just half of the problem. You also need to identify and do your sciatica exercises to strengthen the corresponding weak muscles.

You'll find more information about Muscle Balance Therapy elsewhere on this site, together with my Lose the Back Pain System Review. Further detailed information is also available on the link below:

Sciatica Exercises and Muscle Balance Therapy - Further Information

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