hey doc love the vids i’ve been having this lower back pain for like 3-4 months now and feel the most amount of pain when i bend or lean foward, especially on my lower left side, i can’t tell if it’s muscle or disc. some examples of basic things that hurt sometimes are getting out of my car, doing the action of putting on pants (if i am leaning foward). So i’ve been stretching it everyday, i do this stretch where i lay down and put my two feet against a wall and my legs are 90 degrees, and i do a slow pelvic thrust upwards and really feel discomfort and pain as much as i can. i just need some tips and recommendations because i do not want to go to a PT because they will have it on my medical record and i am thinking seriously of enlisting into the Air Force and do not want something like that to hinder me

Thank you

Thanks for the info. I am at the beginning stage and will evaluate when the back stops going nuts. Doc visit to get evaluated will occur as well.

Thank you, very helpful video!

This works! Thankyou, I have been suffering for months. Can I continue to do this ongoing..

Every doctor says do not stretch your hamstring if you have sciatica. Pls advise, thanks

My pain resembles both

I’ve been having issues for the past 3 months nothing I’m doing is helping got any tips?

thnx for the video. I've tried this about 3 months ago but I couldn't do it without a lot of pain. Now 5 months into my "sciatica journey" I can do it and it helps indeed. I first thought the tingling I felt while doing it was a bad sign but it's a normal sensation like you mentioned

Awesome video! Safe to do with a disc bulge?

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A lot of talking but only answering 1 question. Can Sciatica cause calf pain only? Now what? You don't talk about any symptoms or treatment/medications.

When you bent over to describe throwing out your back I was like oh yeah that's me. Also feels like I have a thick book strapped to my lower back.

Great information with helpful exercises that really alleviate pain!

Thank you for sharing!

Hi, thank you so much for the video, it gives me important knowledge. I am from Indonesia. I am diagnosed HNP L3-4, L4-5 and L5-S1. MRI result stated no deformation or DDD, no listesis, no spondilosis. I have no sciatica pain, my legs are all ok. It feels sometimes burning there at the lumbar but that's not the main that I'm suffering. I'm having this muscle spasm or muscle sore around waist and back area (sometimes left, or right or both at the same time). It's getting better gradually since I do exercise for LBP but not significantly dissappear yet, it's been some months since 26 July 2024 I had it at the first time (sudden waist cramp while I was sleeping). I was wondering is it related to my HNP or got nothing to do and it is separately my muscle problem. Thank you so much if you respond this...

Love the simplicity of these. Just one question: What does someone do who's already very flexible and stretches every morning and every evening and still feels morning lower back pain? 🤔

Hard for me to do the back exercises well as I am not that flexible. I am 68 years old now with arthritis in my hips and lower back.

Thank you for what you do! 🤍

Thank you so much for this content. It gained you a new subscriber and me a new thing to do to try to alleviate this psiatica related calf tightness! I have a brother-in-law whose calf is in a perpetual tightened state of appearance from sciatica. I was worried this would be my fate too because it's not severe enough to me to warrant surgery, and PT has switched to strengthening rather than lengthening. Love this suggested movement and easy to do at my desk. Ty!!

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I have mid back pain right at the left of my spinal cord and I am suffering from it for a month but whenever I try to do some stretching exercises it becomes worse but push-ups and running gives relief and whenever I, taking it a sprain, try to crack the joints the cracking sound comes but don't help much.... Please help me 🙏..

i have had back surgery after the sciatica went away but noth calves are tight and the heel goes numb when i walk. :(

Amazingly explained! I have a disc bulge L4/L5 for the last 2 months now. first week and a bit the back pain was insane but it went away. Then around the 3 week mark I started to get a little bit of numbness down the leg here and there. Now the last 4 weeks it’s been pretty constant and no matter what I do (exercise , chiro, acupuncture ) it doesn’t decrease in sensations. What else would you recommend trying? Or will this just clear its self up over time? Thank you.

What if its just left side of lower back pain only when sitting or bending forward and bending backwards? I can jump and walk with no pain but bending forward and backwards is painful and tight.

Hi doc, does muscle spasm can cause slipped disk?

It was back day in the gym last week for me, I think I used the wrong form. Later on I had a looong shift so I was standing for most of the time. When I got home I felt my back getting stiffer and stiffer, I took a hot bath and went to sleep. Next day I had the worst imaginable pain in my lower back I could barely get up. Over the day though the pain got better, but this is what it’s been for the last week, I have extreme stiffens and pain in my left lower back in the morning which makes it so hard for me to get up and get going but through the day the pain goes away. I have booked a session with my physio, but I am still worried about what might be causing this pain. Last year i got a disc injury which healed with regular physio. Hope that it isn’t the same this time out

More for upper back, I feel.. Clicked out at 3:34 seconds waiting for lower back exercises... just fyi)

Hey great video I hurt my back during deadlift months ago and stopped deadlifts and now I thought it had healed, but now the pain is back. If I try to bend over it hurts and as mentioned in video I do have pain in my right leg ( calf and hip). I've tried doing exercises for lower back but it still hurts afterwards. What should I do?

Exactly an year ago,i got sudden cramp like pain in my lower back,while i was just standing up from sitting position.which lasted for almost 2hrs and relieved spontaneously,but kept coming back every now and then for 1week,and switched to complete pain ,unable to roll from side and side, directly get up from bed,or even bending over...consulted doctor,got mri done,got to know that i have slight disc bulge in l3-l4 and slight disc prolapse in l4-l5. Got physiotherapy for about 1 and a half month and completed recovered,..but immediately i travelled for almost 3 hrs and my pain recurred...so again consulted many doctors ,but they declined that it was due to disc ...i didnt get it..suddenly,i started to get sciatica ,so again i underwent physiotherapy for about 1 week and recovered,, From the last 3-4 months,after long hours of duty ,i am starting to experience sudden crampy pains occasionally..please give me advise on what to do

I do them both for about 2 months now (and others as well) I don't use a foam roll but a towel instead and sometimes I use nothing. After I'm finishing I always put my legs up against the wall at an almost 90 degree angle. I put them up there for about 10 to 15 min. I couldn't even stretch my left leg due to a herniated disc and sciatica. I don't push through the pain but I keep doing all of the exercises every day . 2 weeks ago I started working again and I'm feeling so much better. I can't walk for a long period of time without limping a bit but I have significantly made progress in my painful sciatica journey. You Sir, are a great help and I want to thank you very much for sharing these great videos! I'll keep watching and learning from you. Keep the vids coming. You're awesome

I spend time with my patients , I like to hear ALL their concerns and not limiting to only a few rather than saying: I only have 15 minutes for you.....gotta love a that!

Is there a video on this yet?

I hurt my lower back doing squats with the bar sitting lower than the optimal form. doctor told me it was muscle imblanace, xray showed 20% reduction in disc space. bending down with l5s1 causes pain for the following days, hamstrings are tight. pain has improved a little but the mobility has not. had this issue for over a year. do you think it's disc or muscle?

So hear I am in excruciating pain with significant height loss have kept up with physical therapy injection and daily walks. I am not over weight not a diabetic and 60 years old so basically you're saying suck it up

This feels way more productive than eg a suitcase hold

I have immense discomfort (i would call it very high fever & feeling of spasms& no sleep all night from my left side on the back of my body)& also neck stiffness& and nerve pain. If i twist my head alot i might snap it. Lol. But seriously,i my heart beats fast and like a machine non stop😢.

This was a waste of time

Man I need a PT

Could this be muscle pain if it is accompanied by a lateral shift? In most cases I’ve read about, a lateral shift is usually associated with a disc herniation. After a few days, the pain becomes much less intense, and the lateral shift is slightly reduced. My back only hurts when I move my hips in certain directions. The pain is located in the center of my lower back and doesn’t seem to radiate to my extremities. I have had muscle sprains in my back in the past, but nothing like this with a lateral shift.

Great video - question..what is worse or a longer path to recovery muscular or disc?

Hi

You're helping a lot of people keep uploading. However, there's a lot of videos on the internet that talk about stretching and strengthening exercises while the healing phase of disc bulge disc herniated and preventing it, but there's almost no video about that. How do we know that our disc bulge is healed and when to resume forward bending if it's possible? And more importantly, a lot of people suffer from lower back tightness, stiffness, muscle fatigue, and muscle imbalance without having any original pain after the disc pain subsides. Maybe when the patient avoids too long bending forward or avoiding activity during the healing phase, you should upload video about why this happened and how to address it.because people are afraid to resume activity even after pain is gone and no one gives a clear-cut answer about it.

Just pulled something in my lower back today…I can’t straighten my back it feels stuck and I have sharp pain if I try hard to straighten it. I feel better if I sat down or lie down, and bending over feels much better…should I try to bend forward to relieve the pain ?

Then what causes siatica symptoms with front knee pain?

Yes you can fix it. It’s called STEM CELL.

My numbness and burning is only in my lower legs,the peroneal nerve. Exactly like you said.

Thank you so much for this information. I started feeling some pain after I had deep tissue massage, and the weird thing is it felt that I was going to have cramps on it. I was sored for 2 days which is expected from a deep tissue massage. But then after playing tennis for, it would reoccur like it's going to have cramps, then I remembered I had sciatica pain 2020 on that same leg

Ive been doing cable rows and hyperextending my back and when i bend over then straighten back up i feel pain in lower back. You think thats disc or muscle injury? Its been hurting for months so i switched the exercise

My lower back hurt , haven't been training with weights since December been going to gym since 2008 , can I use these to help strengthen lower back ?, had an x ray they said it was muscle spasm