Question

I have been suffering from disc herniation for the last 5 weeks. Pain is less than before. Rarely pain is observed in legs. Unable to stand or sit for more than 1 hour, otherwise it starts paining in the lower back and tingling effect starts in right buttock. I am already doing back and core strengthening exercises for the last 4 days. Till when can I expect to heal completely. What should be my course of action?

Dr.Julie Mercy J David · Accepted Answer

Poor sitting posture is a common cause of sciatica. To assist the support of your lower back many simple and effective products have been developed over time. These include:
lumbar d-roll
bassett frame
kinesiology lumbar tape
please ask your physiotherapist for their advice in what will help you most.
This simple stretch helps relieve sciatica pain by loosening your gluteal and piriformis muscles, which can become inflamed and press against the sciatic nerve.
1.Lie on your back with your legs extended and your feet flexed upward.
2.Bend your right leg and clasp your hands around the knee.
3.Gently pull your right leg ac
4.Ross your body toward your left shoulder. Hold it there for 30 seconds. Remember to pull your knee only as far as it will comfortably go. You should feel a relieving stretch in your muscle, not pain.
5.Push your knee so your leg returns to its starting position.
6.Repeat for a total of 3 reps, and then switch legs.
5.sitting spinal stretch
sciatica pain is triggered when vertebrae in the spine compress. This stretch helps create space in the spine to relieve pressure on the sciatic nerve.
1.Sit on the ground with your legs extended straight out with your feet flexed upward.
2.Bend your right knee and place your foot flat on the floor on the outside of your opposite knee.
3.Place your left elbow on the outside of your right knee to help you gently turn your body toward the right.
4.Hold for 30 seconds and repeat three times, then switch sides.
6. Standing hamstring stretch
this stretch can help ease pain and tightness in the hamstring caused by sciatica.
1.Place your right foot on an elevated surface at or below your hip level. This could be a chair, ottoman, or step on a staircase. Flex your foot so your toes and leg are straight. If your knee tends to hyperextend, keep a slight bend in it.
2.Bend your body forward slightly toward your foot. The further you go, the deeper the stretch. Do not push so far that you feel pain.
3.Release the hip of your raised leg downward as opposed to lifting it up. If you need help easing your hip down, loop a yoga strap or long exercise band over your right thigh and under your left foot.
4.Hold for at least 30 seconds, and then repeat on the other sideif you have low back pain and sciatica you can undergo intermittent pelvic traction where in your half of your body weight will be added in the electronic traction so that that would help you to reduce the pain, along with interferential therapy stimulations which would help you to get relieved from the radiating pain. Apply ice for the pain to get subsided immediately.
If you cannot go immediately for the physiotherapy treatment. Ice can be kept in the low back where you have back pain. It is suggestible to wear lumbo sacral belt which would help you to build the abdominal muscle tone which itself would make you feel better. You can also wear mcr chappals which would help you to have less weight falling in the painful back.
U have to take vitamin d rich foods. Likemilk,cheese, yogurt,brocoli, spinach.u need calcium consumption for increase the bone density.
Lackof bone and bones crush inside the body
this might be due to low calcium or vitamin d which has more impact on the bone density and also it makes one to feel that there is lack of bone strength or in a way the bones are brittle and almost breaking and they feel it is crushed in a way there are many bones breaking at the same time. You have to take vitamin d rich foods. Likemilk,cheese, yogurt, brocoli, spinach.u need calcium consumption for increase the bone density. vitamin d intake via supplements or exposure to low levels of sunlight. Vitamin d is used to absorb calcium in the bone and regulate calcium in the blood.
If you have leg pain then you have to rule out the causes for having leg pain. First of all check your weight and your haemoglobin levels, as anaemia always leads to the symptoms of being tired and also having leg pain though there are no issues with the knee joint or back pain. If not if the pain radiates down the back of thigh and legs then it might be due to sciatica. Kindly consult the nearby physiotherapist. Hope you recover soon from the leg pain. Lumbar radiculopathy: pain in lower back or glutei region with sharp shooting pain radiating from hip to leg/foot region, occurs in cases of lumbar radiculopathy or sciatica. This is due to compression of lumbar nerve root or sciatic nerve by disc prolapse, facet joint, trauma, hypertrophied ligamentumflavum, piriformis syndrome, etc. L5 vertrbrae and patient has pain the legs and sensation is disturbed?
That is called as lumbar vertebrae. And there are 5 lumbar vertebrae and the 5th lumbar vertebrae is always is located in the lower end where the body weight is taken and it is generally fused with sacral vertebrae. That is where the sciatic nerve passes by and the nerve gets compressed that's the reason you have pain and sensation is disturbed. Loss of concavity of l4-l5 vertebrae.
It is other wise called as the lumbo sacral curve which is very important for the spine to take the entire weight evenly if not it leads to disturbance of the disc and also the vertebrae which makes the spine to loose its concavity that's why it is called as loss of posterior concavity. For which we need to improve the spine posture and we need to adapt good posture during our day to day life activities.
I have pain in my left side leg.
This should be due to the sciatic nerve compression in the right side probably close to your l5 vertebrae. It can also be due to the strain on the left leg, try wearing mcr chappals which would help you to get relieved from pain.
We suggest you to wear a lumbo sacral corset and also modified foot wear if you want we can send you by courier.

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