These sciatica/ herniated disc videos SAVED MY LIFE!! I went through two years of misdiagnosis and severe intense pain. I found these videos and followed along and basically self treated. Along with exercising, your advice and your stretches I felt almost immediate relief and only progressed from there!!!! A MILLION times thank you to these men!!!!!! 💪🏼❤️💪🏼❤️💪🏼❤️💪🏼❤️💪🏼❤️💪🏼❤️💪🏼❤️💪🏼
I suffered with sciatica for most of 2020. and had PT in the pool. Iwas told to do squats at every visit. Even though they triggered my pain, I did them because the therapist told me to and he must know what he' doing, right? I finally work up and realized that I shouldn't do them anymore. Too many therapists are bored and do things by rote. So happy to have you guys to turn to!!!!
This is not the first time you two helped me out of a world of pain. Last time it was my neck, this time lower back pain and sciatica. I was walking miles and miles and hurt myself since I have a slight scoliosis. Already the pain is lessened from the exercises you gave here. Thank you so much. ❤️🙏🏼😊🍀
I need a new physiotherapist! I'm an athlete who suffered a ruptured disc almost 1 year ago and your videos have helped me more than my neurosurgeon and physio combined!
Thanks so much for these videos. Pains me to say that I had been doing most of these exercises/stretches, thinking I was helping my back, but instead was causing more and more pain. Wish I had seen these earlier.
*Personal reminder of things, moves and exercises that I SHOULD NOT do:* 1) Bend over touch toes or hurdler stretch 2) Good mornings 3) squats (just do shallow ones) 4) deadlifts 5) cycling 6) Walking uphill, walking in a flat ground but doing long strides, and walking uphill with long strides. 7) Walking (shorter strides ok if no pain) 8) Burpee 9) Sit ups (crunches are ok) 10) Vups 11) Bending over to catch your breath after a run 12) Slouching in a chair
I dont do squats but I feel like thats what I'm doing at the gym when I use that machine where you sit, extend your legs and go back and forth. Do you thinks thats ok? I've been doing some since my sciatica went away but try not to use too much weight.
I was recently dx'd with five bulging discs with two being herniated, and this was an eye opener, a lot of the exercises I have found out are bad for me from learning the hard way, but I have been pushing through the pain to do a lot of these for like three years, so this is such great information! Thank you!
NO: Bend over touch toes or hurdler stretch Good mornings squats deadlifts cycling Walking uphill Walking (shorter strides ok if no pain) Burpee Sit ups (crunches Ok) Vups not good Bending over to catch your breath after a run Slouching in chairs
I have siatic about 15 years but now getting worse ,i feel very depresed so much with the pain ,feel burn and pain soo soo much ,sometimes i cant walk . I m soo happy found your video .And thanks soo much for your information
I've been dealing with sciatic pain for a little over year. I've been missing out on working out and all I can do when pain subsides a bit is walk. I am grateful to stumble across this video. I've been curious about lifting and squating during my healing process.
At 8.50...they are so right about the walking..I have had back issues with bulging disc and sciatica , recently settled and flared up again after too much deadlift and leg press in one session (personal trainer pushing Me...agh)...but definitely walking up hills and taking long strides in walking is to be avoided....my excellent osteopaths advised me of this point some time ago. Lots of physios and other practitioners (I've been to many!) Never mentioned this point...just said do walking. But there's walking....and there's walking!! Everyone is different, but some simple things can do so much aggravation when you already suffering. I also found normal yoga was the worst!!! All that extreme twisting and bending...flared my sciatica up for weeks...so depressing. So now I'm on a very pared down exercise plan at gym....I think my personal trainer is a bit disappointed...but I have to insist...it's not him with chronic pain to live with.
I had been doing work with carpet and granite for a year. I’m 23 messed my back up bad doing that. I can relate to the suffering. So depressing. I hope you get better. I’ve been out of work for over a year with sciatica. And as a 23 year old, it’s very hard to get a job NOT LIFTING heavy crap for people.
@@FlyWhistle just saw this now. Poor you....its been 3 yrs and I hope you have improved. I developed a labral tear in my hip, 3 years ago...to add to my woes..and had to stop all my weight training just as I'd got to a lovely peak fitness. Gutted. Slowly getting back into it and due orthopaedic consultant hip appt in a fortnight (1 Yr after normal orthopaedic consultant referred me for 2nd opinion)...I turned to following antiinflammatory diet and only go to PTrainer once a week...mainly bodyweight and resistance bands. Keep plodding on
I was a lifter,and I ended up having back disc surgery.It have me drop foot and a weak leg the pain was unbearable.You are right about these exercises.I am no longer able to lift or walk distances.I wish I knew all this before I started lifting.
Hi guys; new subby here from thr UK. I was diagnosed with low back pain/sciatica in October/November of last year and have been on medication for it plus seen a qualified physiotherapist for it. He suggested that how I present is not typical of a herniated disc but a trapped nerve in a lower facet joint. I've improved greatly through physio exercises, walking, generally keeping active with caution but also gardening so much so that the medication has decreased greatly and I've been discharged from the hospital. The exercises that seem to aggrevate the sciatica for me are extention based exercises and flexion seems to aleviate but I find your videos so helpful especially when you confirm correct posture, sleep positions etc. Thanks for sharing your expertise. I've been referred to the local gym for 12 weeks to continue and advance on certain exercises and for core, body strengthening and improving balance, afterwards I go in the sauna to warm my back due to air conditioning in the gym. Are there any body strengthing exercise you do recommend to prevent future flare-ups? I'm looking forward to the pilates ball exercise video as tomorrow I go back to the gym for my 4th week and use a ball for ab strengthening exercises and want to avoid bad form and further injury. Thanks. 👍
Went to my PT session today for pain in my lower back and to the left of my spine. I mentioned to the therapist that it could be my pitiformis muscle messing with my sciatic nerve.. She did not know what it is. I'm glad I am receiving good information on this channel. Thanks!
I think it's great that you point out that we need to do less of what hurts us and more of what helps us. I think, perhaps especially for women, and maybe I should just speak for myself here, I tend to push myself hard. Not in an athletic sense but in an everyday I must be doing something too help the house, help my child, help my husband, even if it hurts. And I need to figure out how to do things that help others without hurting me. I think a lot of times I figure that it needs to get done and if it hurts to get it done oh well, at least it's getting done. So, although it seems fairly obvious to not do things that hurt yourself and instead to do things that help yourself, I think for me at least it is important to remind myself that I don't have to hurt.
I just got the verdict that I have a slipped disc and I'm quite depressed about it because I love sports and now I can barely bend my back . . . I feel so hopeless rn but I just wanna say thanks for saying "we can fix just about anything but a broken heart". I'll try to remember it as I press on with my PT
Very nice video 🏆, I am 34yrs old and suffering from disc bulging l5s1 since July 2017. having pain in both legs and back, stiffness in back and neck also in hamstring. pls suggest me the good exercise and treatment
First off thank you guys for all this valuable information. I have a big problem that no one has been able to help me with for almost 15 years. I have three severely herniated/degenerated disc’s from L2 through L5, and a hairline fractured SI joint. I have numbness in my heels that comes and goes associated with pain and tingling behind my calf muscle. I’ve been through PT for 15 years, massage, chiropractic therapy etc. Since 2003 surgeons have told me that my only solution is a fusion...I don’t believe them because I do have days where the pain is minimal, though most days the pain is severe and limiting my lifestyle. I have six active kids and three busy companies, but I live in pain and just deal with it. Curling up in a fetal position is usually my only relief, though from the sound of it from you guys that only offers a momentary solution. I don’t want irreversible surgery, I guess I’m not sure what my question is, but I’m just dying for some relief other than pain meds! Thanks! Adam
One of the pearls of wisdom communicated here is the warning against forward bends. Several stretching videos show people leaning far forward, trying to touch their toes which standing up. Now we know this is to the detriment of the lower back and could aggravate the sciatic nerve. Thank you Robert and Bradley.
You guys are the best. I have watch 4-5hrs of videos. I have on right side: At L4-L5, there is a diffuse annular bulge with a right lateral disc extrusion extending into the right neuroforamen this results in mild-to-moderate central canal narrowing. Disc osteophyte complex facet hypertrophic change and right lateral disc extrusion results in severe right neuroforaminal narrowing. Left neuroforamen is patent. At L5-S1, there is a diffuse annular bulge indents ventral thecal sac mildly narrows the central canal. Disc osteophyte complex and facet hypertrophic results in mild-to-moderate left and mild right neuroforaminal narrowing. At age 50. I'm it great physical shape for well over 15yrs. This has come from years of odd stuff, shovel snow, yard work, odd stuff around the house and some say gym, but i say NO. I don't do any legs workouts ever. And my chiropractic also said it's just from years of stuff that build up to now. I have great posture when i workout and never ever go heavy. I was told from primary to do the lower steroid injection to help reduce pain to heal, but after research (since i work pharmacy all my life) I decide to do PT instead. Don't like what i read on the injection and stories. Also not FDA recommendations. I think your videos will help me know doubt to avoid prolong pain and being out of work.
I appreciate your videos. I'm trying to get back into the gym to rehabilitate whatever is wrong with my back that causes sciatic notch pain that extends into my leg. I have parasthesia and partial paralysis in the effected leg which one doctor believes is due to something irritating my L4/S3. I haven't been able to move the last three toes on my left foot for two years and with no diagnosis and nothing showing up upon MRI'S, I'm kind of on my own with physical therapy and exercise. I tried physical therapy but what they had me doing made the pain and symptoms worse. I'm going to watch all of your videos on sciatica because it's the closest thing to my specific issue in order to try and learn as much as possible so as to not injure myself further. Thank you for posting these!!!!
Invaluable basic information. Thanks. I am dealing with herniated disc so bad I had to do steroid injections to control the pain. The last week before the injections, all I could do was lie on my back on my exercise mat, the sciatica pain was uncontrollable. I am now embarking on exercise and strengthening program, your videos are very helpful. Especially this one, what NOT TO DO. FWIW, and you might comment on this, I have found that wearing a simply wrap around brace, especially first few hours in the morning, helps me be aware and maintain good posture, but the compression helps control lower back pain. Can you comment in a video on use of these wrap around, snug with velcro braces? I have bought several models to try, and I think it is helping.
Thanks for the video, I can see how I've been hurting my disc herniation from the exercises you mentioned. What cardio do you recommend? Elliptical? Stair master? Maybe you can do a video of recommendations thx
Love your videos! I love to lift weights and threw my back out doing it. I really enjoyed this video and would love to see a more detailed video about the proper way to lift and what to avoid.
You guys help me so much with my chronic back pain. Thank you and keep up the great work! (P.S. Burpee modification idea: done with hands going down to a bench instead of the floor are much easier on my back.)
Thank you both so much! Also, a huge thank you to Brad for the SI belt suggestion, after reading some blogs about it, I bought a cheap one from China ebay under $5 and oh my goodness, I walked for hours on hard floors over the weekend and no SI pain!!! I have been wearing it to sleep as well and I am just floored at the support and lack of pain, I am still having the knee bursa upset if I do not wear the inner soles to support my high arches, but it is improving ♥ And sound in this video is excellent.
Your demonstrations are top notch, and your enjoyment and enthusiasm is infectious. I would like to see you guys put more emphasis on repetitions, how many to begin with, how many to progress to, time duration to hold a position, and how many times a day to do them. You do touch on this sometimes, and your reminder of listening to biofeedback is very important, but in order to build a program for myself some timeline info would be most helpful.
I love u guys thank you so much. I've been watching your videos for a while and u have shown me things that I have changed my life with sciatica. U keep it simple and are always spot on!!! Than you.
Thank you doctor it is because of your advised exercises i got relieved from my back pain (sciatica) . I have been suffering from this since last 8 years. Thank you so much😊😊
I find the overhead press (standing military press) kind of hard on the back. Although the pressure is going the other way, i.e., you bend back rather than slump. I've noticed it helps if I flex my glutes.
If only I knew this a few months ago. I made my sciatica so much worse that now there is a possibility of back surgery. Good to know what to avoid in the future when I hopefully recover!
Can I do...running Brad/Bob if I have lower back pain/sciatica??? Or whatever..!##/@! Your work so precious that its value cannot be determined. Thank you.
Ronny Coleman(Mr Olympia) cant walk anymore. Maybe because he was hard on his back with those squats and good morning type exercises. I have recently jacked up my back because of good mornings and situps. Now Im trying to recover and I love all the tips. Thanks.
You guys are absolutely right about the bike. My sciatica was preceeded by two days of super hunched over stationary bike riding. It began (a couple of years ago now) when I bent over to pick up a piece of paper. A few months ago I bought a stationary bike that has a more upright profile, and riding it set me back. Bikes are bad. On the plus side - I hang from a pull up bar, do deep water pool work, and swimming is ok. Question: What is your opinion of stair machines?
Another question. Sorry, your videos are so helpful and inspire so many questions. Which is good because you convey a confidence in what your talking about! Any who, would a recombinant bike be a better solution? Or no. Same forces?
Great video!!! Can you do a video on which yoga poses are good or bad???! Do you think you could do a video for the people who are not centralizers, so they know what to do to heal?! If you do that video, can you go into more detail of how you know whether the centralizer exercises are helping or hurting? Sometimes I try to do them but it hurts for a minute or goes slightly to the foot but then it gets better after a minute. Or sometimes it feels better right away but then hurts afterward, so it's confusing. Thanks!
I re-injured my back doing a squat with just a pair of light dumbells in my hands, I was careful to keep good form. I didn't injure myself badly but had to rest my back for a week.
Thank you for the amazing video. I am suffering from sciatica pain in left leg. Can you help me with the posture that I can do while using laptop for few hours. Can I lie down on my stomach and with a pillow under my chest and work on laptop. Can I lie sideways on rightside
Don't do any gym workouts just go for walking and do best core exercises No more squats,situps,crunches,Russian twist,deadlifts,burpees, cycling, Don't strain ur back Thank u sir Hope it relieves my back pain Guys try to do physio stretches 1.planks 2.hip bridge 3.bird dog 4.side planks 5.knee to chest workouts
Thanks for this video. Got my "daily fix' of Bob and Brad. Yeah. You both have become a part of my day now and, a part I look forward to. Warm wishes to you both.
I did every single exercice in this video. It took me about 2 years to destroy my back with these. And with regards to bicycle, all symptoms were gone 2 weeks after I have stopped biking. I am not sure if I'll ever attempt to set personal best in squats and deadlifts.
Thank you so much for these! And especially for the reminder to just listen to our body. If it feels bad or painful then stay away from it. So simple but so true. Thank you!
Talk about Yoga and sciatica. I'm did a lot of yoga and not sure if it's related but I ended up with badly herniated disk that required surgery. I'm doing more mat palates now less yoga. I'm 65, but very fit.
I love squats and deads and I use to do it through the pain but I tell you even a normal body weight squat now flares up my sciatica so much that the pain is unbearable and burning which is why I switched to mainly machines for my Leg days mostly.... It's unfortunate but everyone is different and I totally. Agree with Bob and Brad.... You can do dumbbell rows Tho but with a supported chest pad like a Bench etc
Good day, I had a bad pinched nerve c6;c7 and that got better after a few months but now a sciatic problem occurred every week or 2 I get a 30second paralysis when I turn left quickly. I’m not really sure what’s up or what to do? Not much pain but I stop dead in my tracks....?
please talk about exercises one should do when they have herniated discs and spondylolisthesis at the same time. I do have them at the same time but I've never felt pain in my legs. my pain is just a point in my waste.
The burpee one made so much sense to me. I don't do burpees anymore but when I'm cleaning the shower for example, so I'm in that position for a while (sometimes exercing force), I experience the most sciatica pain. It definitely triggers it more than anything else I do. After doing that If I lay down on my bed and get up again after a bit I can't walk without it hurting sooo bad. If I keep walking slowly it eventually gets better but not painless. In the morning after when I get out of bed I don't feel any sciatica pain anymore... I've had x-rays done but they don't show anything. Although I did fracture my tailbone about 10 years ago, I think this might be a consequence of it? I have no idea.
Absolutely!! Here are some we think you should try: www.bobandbrad.com/health-programs/sciatica-relief-program www.youtube.com/@BobandBrad/search?query=arthritis%20back
Great work guys! I really love your videos but on many of them the sound does not come through well. I think that your voices are quite simply not recorded loudly enough.
Squats are bad if air squats (Without weights)? Or are you speaking only if you are loading the spine with weights while squatting? Or any squats at all? My physiotherapist has me doing pulse squats on a Bosu.
Hi, just found out I have lumbar spinal stenosis. C;an you post exercises that I shouldn't be doing? or exercises that I should be doing. I'm a very active person. Doing yoga 3-4 x/week & barre. Need your input. Thanks a lot. I love your channel. Very informative.
Not knew to resistance weight workouts. In saying that, ALOT of the people in the gym use BAD form. I learn “good form” from you Bob & Brad! Thanks 👏👏👏 a lot!!! Have you ever done a video on “indoor” recumbent bikes? I find the recumbent back easier on my 61 year old back. 😬
Hello, What about simply hanging, does that make it worse? I saw your video about shoulder pain and I found a cure in hanging, but now it is very possible that my problem is sciatica and by the way I use to do almost all the excersises that you pointed out not to do.
These sciatica/ herniated disc videos SAVED MY LIFE!! I went through two years of misdiagnosis and severe intense pain. I found these videos and followed along and basically self treated. Along with exercising, your advice and your stretches I felt almost immediate relief and only progressed from there!!!! A MILLION times thank you to these men!!!!!! 💪🏼❤️💪🏼❤️💪🏼❤️💪🏼❤️💪🏼❤️💪🏼❤️💪🏼❤️💪🏼
Could you please share with us what exercises helped you?
Happy to see people get healing cuz the stories make us believe that this can be cured
I have also get better coss of these guys thx alot
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Hello. Can you tell me about those stretches? I’ve been dealing with sciatica for half a year now. Thank you
I suffered with sciatica for most of 2020. and had PT in the pool. Iwas told to do squats at every visit. Even though they triggered my pain, I did them because the therapist told me to and he must know what he' doing, right? I finally work up and realized that I shouldn't do them anymore. Too many therapists are bored and do things by rote. So happy to have you guys to turn to!!!!
Yes sir some of these therapists,should find another gig, they are in it for the money, not the patient’s real recovery 😞😞
I had the same experience and stopped going to water therapy
I've quit many workout that have been hurting me after I watch your channel, thank you!
This is not the first time you two helped me out of a world of pain. Last time it was my neck, this time lower back pain and sciatica. I was walking miles and miles and hurt myself since I have a slight scoliosis. Already the pain is lessened from the exercises you gave here. Thank you so much. ❤️🙏🏼😊🍀
I need a new physiotherapist! I'm an athlete who suffered a ruptured disc almost 1 year ago and your videos have helped me more than my neurosurgeon and physio combined!
How are things going? Did you get surgery or heal up on its own?
Thanks so much for these videos. Pains me to say that I had been doing most of these exercises/stretches, thinking I was helping my back, but instead was causing more and more pain. Wish I had seen these earlier.
*Personal reminder of things, moves and exercises that I SHOULD NOT do:*
1) Bend over touch toes or hurdler stretch
2) Good mornings
3) squats (just do shallow ones)
4) deadlifts
5) cycling
6) Walking uphill, walking in a flat ground but doing long strides, and walking uphill with long strides.
7) Walking (shorter strides ok if no pain)
8) Burpee
9) Sit ups (crunches are ok)
10) Vups
11) Bending over to catch your breath after a run
12) Slouching in a chair
I dont do squats but I feel like thats what I'm doing at the gym when I use that machine where you sit, extend your legs and go back and forth. Do you thinks thats ok? I've been doing some since my sciatica went away but try not to use too much weight.
@@brandenton In my opinion that exercise is not bad for sciatica cause you don't do a lumbar flexion but hip flexion instead
@@JuanCruzFabi, oh good, thank you very much.
@@brandenton You're welcome! I don't have lower back pain anymore.
This is a real bummer list. We need a reverse list. What we CAN do.
I was recently dx'd with five bulging discs with two being herniated, and this was an eye opener, a lot of the exercises I have found out are bad for me from learning the hard way, but I have been pushing through the pain to do a lot of these for like three years, so this is such great information! Thank you!
How are you now bro ?
Kelly how are you now?? Hope you're doing well ❤️🩹
Did you had surgery
NO:
Bend over touch toes or hurdler stretch
Good mornings
squats
deadlifts
cycling
Walking uphill
Walking (shorter strides ok if no pain)
Burpee
Sit ups (crunches Ok)
Vups not good
Bending over to catch your breath after a run
Slouching in chairs
thank you. sometimes videos are just too drawn out. get to the point dammit !lol
Thank you so much
Thanks for this list!
I recently ordered an adult tricycle to help with weight loss but have sciatica and other back issues. Should I cancel my order?
So what exercise can i do to lose weight? I don't feel good without exercising and can't even lose weight without doing exercise ☹️
I have siatic about 15 years but now getting worse ,i feel very depresed so much with the pain ,feel burn and pain soo soo much ,sometimes i cant walk . I m soo happy found your video .And thanks soo much for your information
Revisiting at the end of 2023. You guys are timeless, thank you so much for all your help. I love your bands, great quality!
Totally true!
I keep doing these and getting more backpain.
Thank you so much for clearing things out.
I've been dealing with sciatic pain for a little over year. I've been missing out on working out and all I can do when pain subsides a bit is walk. I am grateful to stumble across this video. I've been curious about lifting and squating during my healing process.
At 8.50...they are so right about the walking..I have had back issues with bulging disc and sciatica , recently settled and flared up again after too much deadlift and leg press in one session (personal trainer pushing Me...agh)...but definitely walking up hills and taking long strides in walking is to be avoided....my excellent osteopaths advised me of this point some time ago. Lots of physios and other practitioners (I've been to many!) Never mentioned this point...just said do walking. But there's walking....and there's walking!! Everyone is different, but some simple things can do so much aggravation when you already suffering. I also found normal yoga was the worst!!! All that extreme twisting and bending...flared my sciatica up for weeks...so depressing. So now I'm on a very pared down exercise plan at gym....I think my personal trainer is a bit disappointed...but I have to insist...it's not him with chronic pain to live with.
I had been doing work with carpet and granite for a year. I’m 23 messed my back up bad doing that. I can relate to the suffering. So depressing. I hope you get better. I’ve been out of work for over a year with sciatica. And as a 23 year old, it’s very hard to get a job NOT LIFTING heavy crap for people.
Thank you for the info!
@@FlyWhistle just saw this now. Poor you....its been 3 yrs and I hope you have improved. I developed a labral tear in my hip, 3 years ago...to add to my woes..and had to stop all my weight training just as I'd got to a lovely peak fitness. Gutted. Slowly getting back into it and due orthopaedic consultant hip appt in a fortnight (1 Yr after normal orthopaedic consultant referred me for 2nd opinion)...I turned to following antiinflammatory diet and only go to PTrainer once a week...mainly bodyweight and resistance bands. Keep plodding on
You are smart to listen to your body and say no to exercises like these.
I would love a video on what yoga poses are appropriate and which ones aren’t. Thanks :)
Absolutely!
These guys are spot on!
I'm an avid cyclist and have gotten a bike fit. I still had to take a long break off the bike. I hope I can return some day.
Can we do planks
"We can fix anything except a broken heart!"
Man I love these guys!
I was a lifter,and I ended up having back disc surgery.It have me drop foot and a weak leg the pain was unbearable.You are right about these exercises.I am no longer able to lift or walk distances.I wish I knew all this before I started lifting.
The surgery further injured you or the lifting?
Hi guys; new subby here from thr UK. I was diagnosed with low back pain/sciatica in October/November of last year and have been on medication for it plus seen a qualified physiotherapist for it. He suggested that how I present is not typical of a herniated disc but a trapped nerve in a lower facet joint. I've improved greatly through physio exercises, walking, generally keeping active with caution but also gardening so much so that the medication has decreased greatly and I've been discharged from the hospital. The exercises that seem to aggrevate the sciatica for me are extention based exercises and flexion seems to aleviate but I find your videos so helpful especially when you confirm correct posture, sleep positions etc. Thanks for sharing your expertise. I've been referred to the local gym for 12 weeks to
continue and advance on certain exercises and for core, body strengthening and improving balance, afterwards I go in the sauna to warm my back due to air conditioning in the gym. Are there any body strengthing exercise you do recommend to prevent future flare-ups? I'm looking forward to the pilates ball exercise video as tomorrow I go back to the gym for my 4th week and use a ball for ab strengthening exercises and want to avoid bad form and further injury. Thanks. 👍
Bob and Brad , thank you for letting us know what exercises to do so you don’t hurt your back . 👍🙂
Went to my PT session today for pain in my lower back and to the left of my spine. I mentioned to the therapist that it could be my pitiformis muscle messing with my sciatic nerve.. She did not know what it is. I'm glad I am receiving good information on this channel. Thanks!
How could a pt not know what piriformis is? Time for a new pt
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I ❤ you guys. Thank you for all the tips on a healthy pain free back!
I think it's great that you point out that we need to do less of what hurts us and more of what helps us. I think, perhaps especially for women, and maybe I should just speak for myself here, I tend to push myself hard. Not in an athletic sense but in an everyday I must be doing something too help the house, help my child, help my husband, even if it hurts. And I need to figure out how to do things that help others without hurting me. I think a lot of times I figure that it needs to get done and if it hurts to get it done oh well, at least it's getting done. So, although it seems fairly obvious to not do things that hurt yourself and instead to do things that help yourself, I think for me at least it is important to remind myself that I don't have to hurt.
I just got the verdict that I have a slipped disc and I'm quite depressed about it because I love sports and now I can barely bend my back . . . I feel so hopeless rn but I just wanna say thanks for saying "we can fix just about anything but a broken heart". I'll try to remember it as I press on with my PT
Very nice video 🏆, I am 34yrs old and suffering from disc bulging l5s1 since July 2017. having pain in both legs and back, stiffness in back and neck also in hamstring. pls suggest me the good exercise and treatment
First off thank you guys for all this valuable information. I have a big problem that no one has been able to help me with for almost 15 years.
I have three severely herniated/degenerated disc’s from L2 through L5, and a hairline fractured SI joint. I have numbness in my heels that comes and goes associated with pain and tingling behind my calf muscle. I’ve been through PT for 15 years, massage, chiropractic therapy etc. Since 2003 surgeons have told me that my only solution is a fusion...I don’t believe them because I do have days where the pain is minimal, though most days the pain is severe and limiting my lifestyle. I have six active kids and three busy companies, but I live in pain and just deal with it. Curling up in a fetal position is usually my only relief, though from the sound of it from you guys that only offers a momentary solution.
I don’t want irreversible surgery, I guess I’m not sure what my question is, but I’m just dying for some relief other than pain meds!
Thanks!
Adam
One of the pearls of wisdom communicated here is the warning against forward bends. Several stretching videos show people leaning far forward, trying to touch their toes which standing up. Now we know this is to the detriment of the lower back and could aggravate the sciatic nerve. Thank you Robert and Bradley.
Thanks for wonderful knowledge. Can you share which yoga poses are recommended for herniated/ bulging disc with sciatica
Thank you Bob and Brad awesome.
You guys are the best. I have watch 4-5hrs of videos. I have on right side:
At L4-L5, there is a diffuse annular bulge with a right lateral disc extrusion extending into the right neuroforamen this results in mild-to-moderate central canal narrowing. Disc osteophyte complex facet hypertrophic change and right lateral disc
extrusion results in severe right neuroforaminal narrowing. Left neuroforamen is patent.
At L5-S1, there is a diffuse annular bulge indents ventral thecal sac mildly narrows the central canal. Disc osteophyte complex and facet hypertrophic results in mild-to-moderate left and mild right neuroforaminal narrowing.
At age 50. I'm it great physical shape for well over 15yrs. This has come from years of odd stuff, shovel snow, yard work, odd stuff around the house and some say gym, but i say NO. I don't do any legs workouts ever. And my chiropractic also said it's just from years of stuff that build up to now. I have great posture when i workout and never ever go heavy. I was told from primary to do the lower steroid injection to help reduce pain to heal, but after research (since i work pharmacy all my life) I decide to do PT instead. Don't like what i read on the injection and stories. Also not FDA recommendations. I think your videos will help me know doubt to avoid prolong pain and being out of work.
Bob & Brad you guys are ALSOME GOD BLESS U GUYS 💪🙏👍👍👊
I appreciate your videos. I'm trying to get back into the gym to rehabilitate whatever is wrong with my back that causes sciatic notch pain that extends into my leg. I have parasthesia and partial paralysis in the effected leg which one doctor believes is due to something irritating my L4/S3. I haven't been able to move the last three toes on my left foot for two years and with no diagnosis and nothing showing up upon MRI'S, I'm kind of on my own with physical therapy and exercise. I tried physical therapy but what they had me doing made the pain and symptoms worse. I'm going to watch all of your videos on sciatica because it's the closest thing to my specific issue in order to try and learn as much as possible so as to not injure myself further. Thank you for posting these!!!!
Is it gone already? I have a tingling feet and lower back pain. Did you also feel a tingle on your feet?
Is it gone already? I have a tingling feet and lower back pain. Did you also feel a tingle on your feet?
Is it gone already? I have a tingling feet and lower back pain. Did you also feel a tingle on your feet?
Invaluable basic information. Thanks. I am dealing with herniated disc so bad I had to do steroid injections to control the pain. The last week before the injections, all I could do was lie on my back on my exercise mat, the sciatica pain was uncontrollable. I am now embarking on exercise and strengthening program, your videos are very helpful. Especially this one, what NOT TO DO. FWIW, and you might comment on this, I have found that wearing a simply wrap around brace, especially first few hours in the morning, helps me be aware and maintain good posture, but the compression helps control lower back pain. Can you comment in a video on use of these wrap around, snug with velcro braces? I have bought several models to try, and I think it is helping.
Hello thank you for all the information. I was wondering if Qigong is ok with bulging disc? Thank you 🙏🏻
You guys are doing God's work. Thank you for all the great info, its helped me deal with my sciatica issue.
Yes. Definitely doing God’s work. Bob and Brad are a joy and a blessing. I am so grateful for them.
What about doing lunges(regular/reverse) or split squats?
Thanks for the video, I can see how I've been hurting my disc herniation from the exercises you mentioned. What cardio do you recommend? Elliptical? Stair master? Maybe you can do a video of recommendations thx
Love your videos! I love to lift weights and threw my back out doing it. I really enjoyed this video and would love to see a more detailed video about the proper way to lift and what to avoid.
Can you please talk about the ab roller and good technique to avoid injury?
You guys help me so much with my chronic back pain. Thank you and keep up the great work! (P.S. Burpee modification idea: done with hands going down to a bench instead of the floor are much easier on my back.)
That's a great idea.
Yup I’m only able to do it using chair
Thank you both so much! Also, a huge thank you to Brad for the SI belt suggestion, after reading some blogs about it, I bought a cheap one from China ebay under $5 and oh my goodness, I walked for hours on hard floors over the weekend and no SI pain!!! I have been wearing it to sleep as well and I am just floored at the support and lack of pain, I am still having the knee bursa upset if I do not wear the inner soles to support my high arches, but it is improving ♥ And sound in this video is excellent.
Would like you to talk about Exercise for neck pain (disc bulging), neck stiff from stress. More for upper spine pain. THANK YOU
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Your demonstrations are top notch, and your enjoyment and enthusiasm is infectious. I would like to see you guys put more emphasis on repetitions, how many to begin with, how many to progress to, time duration to hold a position, and how many times a day to do them. You do touch on this sometimes, and your reminder of listening to biofeedback is very important, but in order to build a program for myself some timeline info would be most helpful.
I love u guys thank you so much. I've been watching your videos for a while and u have shown me things that I have changed my life with sciatica. U keep it simple and are always spot on!!! Than you.
Thanks as always Brad & Bob 💖💜💖✌
Thank you doctor it is because of your advised exercises i got relieved from my back pain (sciatica) . I have been suffering from this since last 8 years. Thank you so much😊😊
I find the overhead press (standing military press) kind of hard on the back. Although the pressure is going the other way, i.e., you bend back rather than slump. I've noticed it helps if I flex my glutes.
good to know the activities to avoid
:)
Thank you for sharing this great instruction video
If only I knew this a few months ago. I made my sciatica so much worse that now there is a possibility of back surgery. Good to know what to avoid in the future when I hopefully recover!
Can I do...running Brad/Bob if I have lower back pain/sciatica??? Or whatever..!##/@!
Your work so precious that its value cannot be determined.
Thank you.
Thank you for this info. I was wondering what I shouldn’t be doing and this really helped.
Ronny Coleman(Mr Olympia) cant walk anymore. Maybe because he was hard on his back with those squats and good morning type exercises. I have recently jacked up my back because of good mornings and situps. Now Im trying to recover and I love all the tips. Thanks.
Thanks,guys..I've been doing the touch your toe stretch for years 🤦🏻♂️ and I'm a big sufferer with sciatica
You guys are absolutely right about the bike. My sciatica was preceeded by two days of super hunched over stationary bike riding. It began (a couple of years ago now) when I bent over to pick up a piece of paper. A few months ago I bought a stationary bike that has a more upright profile, and riding it set me back. Bikes are bad.
On the plus side - I hang from a pull up bar, do deep water pool work, and swimming is ok.
Question: What is your opinion of stair machines?
can I use a rolly thingy under the arch of my back to relieve the pain?
Do pull downs on a lat machine help or hurt sciatic nerve problems
Good looking out 🤠
thank you, this is more helpful thatn most other videos
Another question. Sorry, your videos are so helpful and inspire so many questions. Which is good because you convey a confidence in what your talking about! Any who, would a recombinant bike be a better solution? Or no. Same forces?
I want to fell better. So keep up with the new videos! Thank for sharing!!
Great video!!!
Can you do a video on which yoga poses are good or bad???!
Do you think you could do a video for the people who are not centralizers, so they know what to do to heal?! If you do that video, can you go into more detail of how you know whether the centralizer exercises are helping or hurting? Sometimes I try to do them but it hurts for a minute or goes slightly to the foot but then it gets better after a minute. Or sometimes it feels better right away but then hurts afterward, so it's confusing. Thanks!
Avoiding exercise for sciatica you should show12345****
Thanks so much for these exercises and advice! My sciatica pain is going away!
I re-injured my back doing a squat with just a pair of light dumbells in my hands, I was careful to keep good form. I didn't injure myself badly but had to rest my back for a week.
Very many thanks gents, all your great advice is so appreciated.
Thank you for the amazing video. I am suffering from sciatica pain in left leg. Can you help me with the posture that I can do while using laptop for few hours. Can I lie down on my stomach and with a pillow under my chest and work on laptop. Can I lie sideways on rightside
Bob and Brad your very helpful thank you so much!
Don't do any gym workouts just go for walking and do best core exercises
No more squats,situps,crunches,Russian twist,deadlifts,burpees, cycling,
Don't strain ur back
Thank u sir
Hope it relieves my back pain
Guys try to do physio stretches
1.planks
2.hip bridge
3.bird dog
4.side planks
5.knee to chest workouts
hear them point out that anything that puts the back into bad posture is bad
Thanks for this video. Got my "daily fix' of Bob and Brad. Yeah. You both have become a part of my day now and, a part I look forward to. Warm wishes to you both.
I did every single exercice in this video. It took me about 2 years to destroy my back with these.
And with regards to bicycle, all symptoms were gone 2 weeks after I have stopped biking.
I am not sure if I'll ever attempt to set personal best in squats and deadlifts.
I. Agree
Thank you so much for these! And especially for the reminder to just listen to our body. If it feels bad or painful then stay away from it. So simple but so true. Thank you!
This world need more and more people like you. Thank you very much sir.
Please suggest some simple exercises for frozen shoulder rib cage n sciatica
Very helpful. Thank you!
Turned 50 and now I’m here! So glad for this video. Extremely helpful information. Now I can stop being counterproductive
Talk about Yoga and sciatica. I'm did a lot of yoga and not sure if it's related but I ended up with badly herniated disk that required surgery. I'm doing more mat palates now less yoga. I'm 65, but very fit.
I love squats and deads and I use to do it through the pain but I tell you even a normal body weight squat now flares up my sciatica so much that the pain is unbearable and burning which is why I switched to mainly machines for my Leg days mostly.... It's unfortunate but everyone is different and I totally. Agree with Bob and Brad.... You can do dumbbell rows Tho but with a supported chest pad like a Bench etc
Question. Here at home, like everybody and was wondering if walking up stairs is a good exercise with a herniated disc?
Your videos are very helpful .
This is interesting all the things you think are good for your back can give you harm,like bending forward.
Please suggest appropriate exercises for sciatica
hi wonderful guys, does the bound angle pose makes sciatica worse?
Good day, I had a bad pinched nerve c6;c7 and that got better after a few months but now a sciatic problem occurred every week or 2 I get a 30second paralysis when I turn left quickly. I’m not really sure what’s up or what to do?
Not much pain but I stop dead in my tracks....?
thanks a lot for this! i'd just like to ask what if it's a stationary bike? would it be okay for sciatica?
Yup-agree with the burpees. Flares up my sciatica.
Sir can you please discuss about running or jogging for sciatica patients
please talk about exercises one should do when they have herniated discs and spondylolisthesis at the same time. I do have them at the same time but I've never felt pain in my legs. my pain is just a point in my waste.
thanks for the video , it is helpful to my sciatica ,,👍
You're wonderful doctors
The burpee one made so much sense to me. I don't do burpees anymore but when I'm cleaning the shower for example, so I'm in that position for a while (sometimes exercing force), I experience the most sciatica pain. It definitely triggers it more than anything else I do. After doing that If I lay down on my bed and get up again after a bit I can't walk without it hurting sooo bad. If I keep walking slowly it eventually gets better but not painless. In the morning after when I get out of bed I don't feel any sciatica pain anymore... I've had x-rays done but they don't show anything. Although I did fracture my tailbone about 10 years ago, I think this might be a consequence of it? I have no idea.
I have hip and spine issues... what can I do ? I’m sure you’ve done previous videos but would so appreciate an update
Which exersice is good for sicatica sir plz reply am suffring from this bad disease
Need exercises for sciatica and arthritis mild in lower disc.
Absolutely!! Here are some we think you should try: www.bobandbrad.com/health-programs/sciatica-relief-program
www.youtube.com/@BobandBrad/search?query=arthritis%20back
I just wanted to say you blokes are great...and I really appreciate the content you put on TH-cam...more power to you!
Great work guys! I really love your videos but on many of them the sound does not come through well. I think that your voices are quite simply not recorded loudly enough.
Squats are bad if air squats (Without weights)? Or are you speaking only if you are loading the spine with weights while squatting? Or any squats at all? My physiotherapist has me doing pulse squats on a Bosu.
Hi, just found out I have lumbar spinal stenosis. C;an you post exercises that I shouldn't be doing? or exercises that I should be doing. I'm a very active person. Doing yoga 3-4 x/week & barre. Need your input. Thanks a lot. I love your channel. Very informative.
Can you do the same video for the topic cervical radiculopathy thanks
Not knew to resistance weight workouts. In saying that, ALOT of the people in the gym use BAD form.
I learn “good form” from you Bob & Brad! Thanks 👏👏👏 a lot!!!
Have you ever done a video on “indoor” recumbent bikes? I find the recumbent back easier on my 61 year old back. 😬
Hello, What about simply hanging, does that make it worse? I saw your video about shoulder pain and I found a cure in hanging, but now it is very possible that my problem is sciatica and by the way I use to do almost all the excersises that you pointed out not to do.
please review updog and chaturangas for low back