Category: Back Pain Secrets Podcast

Welcome back, guys. So today’s topic is, is it good to have a hot bath when you have sciatica? But before we get into all of that, I’m going to talk about something else. Just a short story that’s all going to be related to your sciatica and back pain. So listen up, okay?

As you guys might know by now, I’m on vacation. I’ve been doing these podcasts over the past three weeks. It’s a long vacation. It’s the longest vacation I’ve actually had for 15 years. I had three weeks off. I’m loving it. I’m doing these. I’m working a bit you know, just checking the emails and also doing these podcasts that I really enjoy. That actually relaxes me. It’s like my own therapy. So it’s great.

Anyway, so over the past six months, I’ve been doing this online stuff heavily, doing the marketing for it and that’s brand-new for me. I’ve worked as a backpain specialist for 20 years. I have some knowledge. I wrote a book and I want to get that out to the world, right?

So I’m behind the computer. I’m working quite a lot, like 70 hours a week, trying to get my message out and b ...

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Welcome back, guys. So today, we’re going to talk about, is sciatica a life-long condition, okay? And as always, I have today’s story and today’s story is about Tara. She’s a patient that I treated a year back. Tara is 31 years old. She’s female and she lives in the UK.

I was treating her over my Skype call. I do Skype calls with patients all over the world, and she was one of them. So she’s a dancer, Tara, okay, and she usually dances four to five times a week. She’s been doing this consistently for like 20 years, okay?

That’s just her identity. She identifies herself as a dancer. Two years back, she was doing some exercise, some twists in the dance, and she felt like radiation like someone basically put a knife in her back. Since then she has had recurring episodes of sciatica and lower back pain. It comes and goes.

A year back, she had an MRI and the MRI showed she had a slipped disc on level L5-S1, okay? So she has a condition. It’s in black and white, but she’s doing her dancing and she’s trying to just live life.

But whenever she’s twisting and turning, and also ...

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Welcome back, guys. So today’s topic is, can stress increase your sciatica pain, okay? I’m going to tell you a bit of a story here, and to give you a bit of a backstory about the story, I’m going to talk about Jenny. Jenny is 29 years old and about two, two-and-a-half years back, she had started to have sciatica pain okay, and the MRI showed that she had a herniated disc on L4-L5 and she’s been suffering with this sciatica pain on and off, you know, during these years.

She’s taking painkillers randomly. She’s visited a physiotherapist doing like core stability exercises. She tried acupuncture, all kinds of creams. She even wore a bracelet like a lumbar belt for a while you know.

But it comes off and on and she has more or less a constant pain in her left hip okay, and it’d radiate down her leg, down to her knee, down to her calf, and foot like off and on during the day.

Because of this, she’s feeling depressed okay, because she’s not able to move as much, and before this sciatica stuff, she was suffering from depression or not suffering. She was battling depression and the thing that was helping her ...

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Today, we’re going to talk about, is it good to get a massage when you have sciatica pain? But before I get into all that, I need to just tell you a bit, what I’ve been up to the last couple of days and bear with me for the story here. There’s something for you back pain sufferers out there.

So I went to Malmo with my wife and kids to visit my brother and his wife and their kids, and we had like one day together and then I got sick. I got really sick. I had a bad cold. In the middle of the summer, I had a high temperature, nose, throat, you name it. You know, I was in bed, a big man cold. You could definitely say that.

And while I was in bed just lying, I was feeling sorry for myself that I’m missing out on all the fun they were out having. They actually went to Copenhagen that is very close to Malmo, and they went on an amusement park and all of this. But I missed everything. I was in bed.

So I was in bed there and my thoughts started to wander you know back about 10-15 years back in time when I was suffering really bad from back pain from this ice hockey incident that I’ve been in. And something that really helped ...

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Today, we’re going to talk about how you should sit when you have sciatica. This is a very common question and the best answer is really to move about. You shouldn’t sit at all, but sometimes, especially if you’re at work and you have certain things to do, you have to sit. So that’s what we’re going to talk about.

To give you guys a bit of a backstory here, I’m going to tell you the story about Kim. Kim is about 30 years old. She’s female and she has had sciatica for about six months now. It’s located mostly in her left leg, all the way down to her foot, and she has a tingling sensation and some kind of weakness.

She had an MRI for this and it showed she had a slipped disc at L5-S1, a very, very common level to have a slipped disc. So she has this and the pain is just horrible you know, especially when she’s sitting. It’s just irritating her very, very much.

Internally, Kim was struggling right now because she’s just had a big promotion at work. She’s actually like the lead air traffic controller at an airport, and what she does essentially, is she’s controlling all the pl ...

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