Sciatica on LEFT side? ONE Exercise for RAPID Relief!
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In this episode, Farnham's leading over-50's physiotherapist, Will Harlow, shares one of the most effective exercises for sciatica in one leg!
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I have read the same treatment ideas over and over again, and this is the first time I am hearing to stretch the good leg. The way I see it, I have nothing to lose in trying this out.😊
Will
You’re the only one who said to stretch the good side instead of the bad side. It does make a lot of sense. I started stretching both sides and sciatica pain on the right got really painful.
Thank you
First time I m hearing not to stretch the affected leg. Definately gonna try. Thanx. Just did it and I feel amazing. Thank u
Likewise
I can not believe it!!!for me it was instant relief for some time and then of course i needed to repeat it throughout the day. But thanks a bunch Will👍🏻from a new follower😊
Wow this literally just fix my sciatica pain immediately. Blown away
BS
@@JustaKarenDiscoveredTheIntrnet well it did for a couple hours lol. Then it came back:(
Then you never really had it in the first place! My sciatica pain is so intense I cant even sit down to do this exercise!
@@lisov4575there are levels of sciatica
Thank you! I got quick relief from left leg sciatica pain with this and two other stretches you recommended on another video. Grateful!! Will keep doing them.
Awesome. After dozens of unhelpful videos, this is a hit. Big thumbs up.
Thank you so much!
QUESTION: Will, why does sciatic pain seem worse at night?
You have a good,distinct speaking voice,lovely English voice,and sensible advice,thank you .
Thank you! 😃
thank you Will! I had a really bad sciatica flare up a few days ago, and have been scouring TH-cam for the correct exercises. The ones you demonstrate in this video are giving me great relief.
I'm sorry to hear about your sciatica flare up, but I'm very pleased to hear that my video was able to offer some relief! Wishing you all the best :)
Thanks a lot for the advice Will. Got sciatica in left leg, been doing figure of 4 with both legs lying down for over a month and you're right still got pain! I'll do as you say, sitting, from now on and see what happens.
Thank you for sharing your tips with me, I greatly appreciate it. I have been suffering with lower leg pain and I am definitely going to do this stretch.
Worked for me. I’d been hobbling around for days prior to this. Thanks so much
I m so happy to watch your videos , Will. Especially this one. This is very important advice! You are brilliant. 👍🍀🇮🇪💯💯👍👍👍
This is amazing. I'm 12 weeks into rehabilitation excercises for a proximal Hamstring injury, biceps femoris tear and groin strain in my right leg (Inline Skating Injury). This worked really well to relieve the tension in my injured leg. I'm going to try your groin strain stretch excercise next. Thank you, I think I should probably invest in your book now.
Thank you for this video...definitely gonna try this excercise.
I was just thinking it might be a good idea to maybe sit a back further back from the camera if possible, in order to illustrate this excercise a bit better for the viewer, as one will be able to see your legs better. Thank you.
Thank you for this timely Information Will ❤
this is the best advice I've been given ,,thank you will I'm a grateful follower !!
Very helpful again. Thanks Will!
Tkanks Doc. Been having paiinful leg for quite sometime. Will certainly do this exersize.Thanks a million.
Thank you..I finally have some relief after trying to stretch the painful leg unsuccessfully.
Often yours is the best advise…I would never have thought to stretch the unaffected leg
I'm so pleased my video could offer some welcome relief for you!
I have sciatica in my left side. I went to a chiropractor back in may and each time i saw him i got worse nerve pain shooting down in my foot and my toes. I stopped seeing him and felt better but i still have numbness from my calf down to my great toe and excruciating pain in my butt, hip, SI joint area. I have been doing Dr. Charlie Johnson's program and i finally was able to figure out i have sciatica. So i am going to try this and see what happens.
I’ll try , if I don’t come back Thank You !!! 🙏🏼
Thank you. I felt immediate relief 🥲. ❤
Same as some of the others ..after following the "wrong side" advice I just worked my good side. Amazing!!!! What a relief!! Thanks so much!
So pleased my video was able to offer some useful advice and relief for you!
Excellent remedies doc
I have been taught not to stretch the sciatic leg hamstring, although I have been given a nerve glide to do which does seem to help. I have been, without being told to do so, doing hamstrings stretches on the good leg, because it is definitely tighter than the sciatic leg, however, i haven’t been warned against the stretch you show! From now on, I will do it only on the good leg. Thank you!
Yes, exactly. Stretching the sciatic leg definitely made pain worse afterwards. This is true
I try everything, chrio, traditional massage, acupuncture and even consume medicine for nerve. And almost fully recover. But i will add this excercise for sure for total recover. Almost 3 months of pain
Ok I am going to try this. Thanks! I actually have a doctor appt for Monday. I had this problem about 2 years ago and it only got better when I was forced to stop my daily power walking because of sitting with my mom who had multiple surgeries due to cancer and then on Hospice. I feel like I have a broken bone in my foot but also realized I have that same low back pain and yes it kind of travels down my left leg to my foot. I’m realizing I think it’s probably the sciatica problem again.
A bit different from the majority of self-proclaimed experts who make me scream out in pain just trying to lift my foot to my knee. Thanks, Will. We'll try this on the non-painful side and see where it goes.
From UK,
Have back problem since 2017, had😊 consulted 6 orthopedic surgeons, went twice for operation backed out at last moment ,
exercise helped from 2018 to 2023, now the pain is back with a vengeance
Have done regular exercise since I was 8 years old now 78, active sportsman , do not have any lose muscle in body, very strong arms, back, legs and hips
Now nothing is working, feel 70 years of trying to remain fit has not worked
Feel will have to live with it, till I die
My friends who have never moved away from sofa, are in same condition
Even pain killers not working,
Take care
Thank you very much for your differential method of stretch... Very useful for therapist also like me
Thank you from Portugal.
I just switched to a different physical therapy practice because they kept stretching my hamstrings which irritated the heck out of of my lower lumbar herniation. They were not helping me, but making me worse.
Wish I knew this before I stretched the bad side. Better late than never. Very helpful!
Definitely better late than never!
Giving this a try and hope it helps. Been in pain for a week, can’t walk and doctor literally just gave me muscle relaxers and pain pills and sent me on my way without doing xrays or ordering an MRI or anything..
Same here. They gave me muscle and nerve relaxers and neither helped me feel better. No X-ray and didn't even look at my back.
I had to FIGHT for an MRI. Insurance denied it twice and I found out this week that I have a very large disc herniation pressing on a spinal nerve. I have no ankle reflex and my calf muscle has been "offline" for a month. Now I need surgery. Going to try this stretch to see if I can find relief. Thr pain pills and muscle relaxers make me SO groggy.
Thanks for the tip. Will give it a go.
Thank you so much!
You're welcome!
I will try anything, thank you.
Thanks a lot Dr ..i was sufferong a month ,it worked soon after stretch .
That's great to hear, I'm so pleased it helped!
Thank you so much! First time ko na watched ang ganetong treatment, karamihan na napapanood ko ung bad leg ang ginagamit nila! Salamat ulit sa pag share ❤
Thanks Will. Feel slight relief already.
Great to hear!
Very easy on the eye, and really good advice.
Best advise i have gotten ever!!!
Great to hear it!
Very easy on the eye, and really good advice. ❤
Will, thank you. Some people's attention span seems to be woefully inadequate it would seem.
As always, you go to great lengths to carefully research and present accurate scientifically based rather than a sensationalised presentation of information.
The necessary safeguards and a clear understanding of the theory and the methodology to be used prior to deciding to attempt it are given.
This has worked effectively for me. Thank you 😊
I have been watching and reading your book i will be 71 real sooni don't have a doctor i can't even get any whereI can't walk my pain is in both ledgs ok doc i'm still tryig my legs are so sore I don't what to do
Thank you very much. I am very patient my problem. It is the left side I’ve been on. Yes I want physiotherapy two months and have I take my special a prescription. I’ve been on TH-cam. I do an exercise or home. I put some cream from specialist doctor now I’m waiting for the injection, so I want to throw out is problem. I watch your videos you explain very very well. God bless you.
Will your the best!!!wish I could be a client of yours but I’m in Nova Scotia Canada.
Thanks for this video.
The first exercise I was taught by a PT for sciatica made it worse (lying down and bringing the bad leg up with a yoga strap over the foot, then flexing the toes toward you). Doing hip rotations while lying down also makes it worse. The first thing any PT should say when showing someone sciatica exercises is "this could make it worse."
AGIN YOU RE A GIFT TO ALL THANKS SO MUCH
Thank you so much for your kind comment!
Im doing this now. It feels better already. Odd how doing the opposite side helps. Thank you.
Hi Will, Can we do the figure 4 lying down on the bed or floor and hold for 1-2 minutes per leg per repetition?
Great I hope this works for me!! Thank you Will ❤
And one more thing sir i dont feel pain in my back but when in sit on chair pain starts from butt and i feel some sensation in leg an pain starts coming in my right leg till foot... What the problem is
Plz tell me... Can we go gym to warm up muscle like biceps and triceps and bench press for chest when L5 S1pain is coming in leg.. plz replay
Interesting - I’ve been given stretches on the L (bad) leg and as you say, it aggravates the nerves and sets things off for a few days. Unfortunately I can’t get either shin anywhere near my thigh - maybe half way at a push!
Did this carefully as directed by you. Don't think l have a tear. Not painful to do what you suggested, just a slight clunk on the twist one . All the rest ok.
Please place the camera so we can see your entire body doing these exercises. I can only see up to your knee yet in many of these exercises we need to see how you’re positioning your feet, etc. (You even say one some your videos, “As you can see by where I’m placing my feet…”. Uh, no we can’t! Thanks!
Hi Doc, which side should we sleep on, good or bad side? Thanks
Is there another way of doing this. I have an artificial hip on the right leg and cannot put my leg in that angle. Thanks in advance
My sciatica started on my right side and now has moved to both sides. Sometimes the pain is in both legs at the SAME time! What do I stretch then? I've been diagnosed with degenerative disc disease and my L2 & L3 disc are pressing on my sciatic nerve. Physical therapy just makes my pain worse after I leave. I do stretches at home 5-6 days a week and feel better after doing those than I do when I leave physical therapy.
I have sciatica lower back now gone in right hamstring and buttocks on right side was painfully is get easier each day goes by but think.still away to go before get pain free.
I did a mistake for a long fime..i have sciatica on my left leg as the same the left leg is im doing to strecth... 8:46
Why is it so on the non pain legs
Is this for sciatica pain in the back of the leg? Ive got herniated disk (L-2) and pain from pinched nerve on the front and inner part of left thigh.
i am suffering the past 7 months no body told me the opposite of bad leg i will try
I have replacement hip on right, pain is on left..
I dont know which leg I should stech because my left leg is painful and the right foot is numb
Fantastic videos keep up the good work! You may have mentioned this during your video and I may have missed it. IF this doesnt cause you pain how many reps and how many times a day should a person do this. I realize its not straight forward answer as everyone is different and in a different part off recovery. Thanks.
Hope this helps…At 7 minutes he says do the stretch for 30 sec. At 8 minutes he says do it several times a day.
Are u near California. Enjoy your videos. Very helpful.😊😊😊😊😊
He's in the UK.
Better instantly, in pain for 3 days ,wow .
Спасибо большое
I had severe and sharp nerve pain from Spondylolisthesis from the past 5 weeks when walking and bending mainly in my right leg. Pain was in my buttock (lower)and calf (side of the calf). The pain has reduced 50-60% and now I don't feel any sharp pain but muscle pain in my calf. Is muscle pain instead of nerve pain a sign that it is getting better or is it a sign of it getting worse ? Please confirm
Did you have any numbness in your feet before your pain reduced?
No
Dr trying to tell me it is hip arthritis....trying to get me to do surgery. This is my back...I'm not stupid.
Can some one with back pain do it ?
In short bend from both your hip not with your spine.
Hello Doctor, last weeks I had sciatica that radiated in the back of my left leg, now it radiates only in front of my left leg(quadriceps region). Could you please tell me why did this happen? Is this a bad or a good sign? Thank you very much, your answer will help me a lot
But i have problems with the right foot,you should edit with both😀👍thx
Will this help for L5-S1 disc
Hi, Would this be the same for Piriformis syndrome?
Can I do pullups if I have a bulging discs ?
Ok, I need exercises to GET my leg up on the other leg. Can NOT do this sitting up.
Hi doctor,how about if Sciatica is on both legs?❤
stretch your hand
Duh! Men have third option down stairs
I'm having buttock and leg pain radiate to my foot .it alternating sides. Cam we have scaitica in both sides which shifts sides
Why does it tend to be the leg leg with issues?
Thank you for the info. I learned a lot.
So pleased it was helpful!
first one i've bothered to sub!
I had physio done after a stroke. My left hand isn't working. But my left leg was fine. So I went to see a physiotherapists and she made my leg worse. It's in pain. And my toe second baby toe on my left feet next to my big toe keeps on getting stiff and lifting up on its own. Can you please tell me wat to do and why dis Is happening because I'm never going back to that awful physiotherapists 😢😢😢
Is sleeping on the stomach bad for back problems ?
Bad
Is stationery cycling o.k. as I have a pinched sciatic nerve (R)
my PT said no....
Bro,, i have sciatica on left leg due to stenosis in L4,5 ,,Can i do on right leg for results ??!!pl advise !!!
Best option is vertebrae correction.Sciatica is happening when you have vertebrae compression with rotation..No one physio help you with that.They will send you to neurosurgeon for disc operation witch is wrong! cos your vertebrae still has offset!
Lol! Getting to see anyone in the NHS is like finding a ghost in your wardrobe, which is why we resort to TH-cam and videos like this.
How do you sit with sciatica? I can’t sit or lay flat
a foam wedge cushion helps me to sit...
Alhamdulillah relief instant
i do stretch it by a ball and hiphook..
Hope it helps!
I can't resist stretch the bad leg.
But what if you have the pain in both legs as I do. No I have not had it checked out. I also use ice packs and heat too.
Thanks much
See a physio locally, you can’t expect a diagnosis over the Internet!