Your Sacroiliac (SI) joint and sciatic nerve are very closely related when it comes to low back pain. Both of them are greatly affected by the tension of muscles across the joints of the hip and low back. The sciatic nerve passes through several layers of muscle before descending down to innervate the muscles and skin of your leg. Oftentimes, these layers can put pressure on our sciatic nerve and cause symptoms in a wide variety of places in the leg.
There are people out there who believe that stopping sciatic nerve pain requires stretching and that is it. But what made the muscles tight in the first place? Why do people continue to struggle with sciatic nerve pain despite stretching? Understanding how your posture and body positioning affect the sciatic nerve is vital to stopping the pain. At ProActive, our SI joint and sciatica physical therapists in Burley will teach you how to change your posture and positioning to alleviate your pain so that you can return to the life you love.