[quote]Dr. Ryan wrote:
Hoosierdaddy,
If you don’t have leg pain, then you don’t have sciatica.
Sciatica refers to pain running down the back of the leg and into the lower leg and foot.
How did you hurt yourself?
Does the pain increase if you cough or sneeze?
Try bending forward 5-10 times, does the pain stay the same, get worse/better or change location?
Bend backwards 5-10 times and answer the same questions.
Lay down on your stomach and do 5-10 press-ups (the cobra postion) and monitor what happens to your symptoms.
How did they rule out a disc problem?
For the time being, click on the Cool Tips archive and go to the Get on a Roll post and follow the directions. That should help with sitting to some degree.
I can give you more info once I know how you respond to the above movements.
Take care,
Ryan[/quote]
I don’t have sciatica? I love you.
I hurt myself playing basketball, when i went up for a layup, hence why I think it has something to do with tight hip flexors (because when I shoot a layup my right knee shoots up)
Coughing: No Pain
Sneezing: No Pain
Bending over ten times: Hurts bad the first time, improves and plateaus after numbers 3 or 4
Bending over backward: Hurts first time, but then not after that
Alternating (Forward then Backward): Hurts everytime
Cobra: no real noticeable pain
Sitting: Constant strong dull pain
He did some reflex check with my knee, my foot, i had to do something else with my body while he hit something. I dont remember what I just remember him telling me that if I had a disc problem something something nerves something something reflex. But he said he was almost defintely sure I didn’t have disc problems.
Ok doc, now what do you think?