Sciatic Nerve Pain – Where’s It Coming From? PLUS Stretches & Exercises for FAST Pain Relief
The three main causes of Sciatic Nerve Pain are a bulging disc, DDD (Degenerative Disc Disease)/stenosis, and piriformis syndrome. It’s important to get a proper diagnosis to know where it’s coming from because the treatment can be different depending on what is causing it. Watch more about Sciatic Nerve Pain: https://youtu.be/iAYFy06z5Bs
In this video, I will talk about the different symptoms for each cause of Sciatic Nerve Pain, and show a stretch and exercise to help for each one.
Peripheral neuropathy is basically when you have damage to your peripheral nerves from either a trauma or disease. This can cause your hands and/or feet become numb and tingly. I'll focus on the feet/legs for this video.
Relieve knee pain with Doctor Jo's best stretches and exercises for the knee. Our knees can become stiff and painful for many different reasons. The key is to mobilize, stretch, and then strengthen.
Is hot/cold therapy an effective way to help relieve knee pain and other pains throughout the body? Here’s some info about hot and cold therapy as well as some other techniques to help relieve knee pain.
Knee pain can be caused by many things. Often a tight quadricep muscle can cause knee pain. My favorite stretch for this area is a quad stretch. It’s great for the knee, hip, and thigh area.
With a total knee replacement, it’s important to do physical therapy on the knee (prehab) BEFORE the knee replacement because the stronger and more flexible the knee is before surgery, the better the recovery and outcomes will be.
Hamstring pain or a hamstring strain can be very painful. The hamstrings help us walk, lift our legs backwards, and bend our knees. When you have a hamstring strain, all these movements can be painful. These hamstring stretches and exercises should help relieve a hamstring strain.