Can Myofascial Release Provide Sciatica Pain Relief?

Sciatica pain pertains specifically to Sciatic nerve irritation, but all back pain is commonly called sciatica.

If you have “sciatica,” you experience mild to severe pain anywhere along the path of the sciatic nerve.  Sciatica can also cause muscle weakness in your leg and foot, numbness in your leg, and an unpleasant tingling pins-and-needles sensation in your leg, foot and toes.

Some people describe the pain as sharp, shooting, or jolts of pain. Others describe this pain as “burning,” “electric” or “stabbing.”

Sciatica pain may be constant or may come and go. Also, the pain is usually more severe in your leg compared to your lower back. The pain may feel worse if you sit or stand for long periods of time when you stand up and when your twist your upper body. A forced and sudden body movement, like a cough or sneeze, can also make the pain worse.

Sciatica pain can be caused by several conditions as:

• Herniated or slipped disk
• Degenerative disk disease
• Spinal stenosis
• Spondylolisthesis
• Osteoarthritis
• Trauma injury
• Tumors
• Piriformis Syndrome
• Muscle tightness or Spasms

The most common symptoms of sciatica pain include:

• Moderate to severe pain in the lower back, buttock and down your leg.
• Numbness or weakness in your lower back, buttock, leg or feet.
• Pain that worsens with movement; loss of movement.
• “Pins and needles” feeling in your legs, toes or feet.
• Loss of bowel and bladder control (due to cauda equina).

Myofascial Release is considered the most effective treatment plan for sciatica remedies. Relief for sciatica is successful because Myofascial Release addresses the cause of the nerve irritation and not only covers the sciatica pain, as medications do.

As the source of compression is corrected the pain relief for sciatica follows very quickly.

If the cause of sciatica pain is because of herniated, slipped, or degenerative disc disorders and spondylolisthesis, that means the space in between vertebrae is decreased. When this happens, it causes tissue to put pressure and tension on the sciatic nerve.  Myofascial Release can reduce tightness on surrounding tissues allowing more space for vertebrae. With Myofascial Release, it will also relieve pressure and irritation on pain-sensitive structure as the sciatic nerve.

Spinal stenosis, Osteoarthritis and trauma, are inflammatory cycles on the spinal levels. This is  where the sciatic nerve is formed in the lower spine by the combination of motor and sensory fibers from spinal nerves L4 to S3. These spinal nerves belong to a larger group of nerves in the lower spine called the lumbosacral plexus.

MFR is an amazingly effective cycle to control chronic or acute inflammatory events in the body.  MFR stimulates the production of enzymes that provoke the initiation of natural healing processes in the body.

Piriformis syndrome and muscle tightness, cause sciatic pain because they apply excessive pressure over the nerve, and it becomes irritated and cause pain.  MFR Releases muscle and soft tissue tightness.