3 Easy Exercises to UNPINCH Your Sciatic Nerve

Everyone on YouTube is sharing the "Top 3 Exercises for Piriformis Syndrome & Sciatica" and yet no one is teaching you how to determine if they are something that will make YOU better, same, or worse. Not very helpful is it?! Rather than taking blind advice and hoping treatment works... I want to show you a process for finding the exercise that will work best for you - especially if you're dealing with sciatic nerve irritation or compression.

Most people have been led to believe that there's a magical exercise to relieve pain from Piriformis Syndrome, sciatica, herniated discs, spinal stenosis etc. -- and that each different diagnosis requires a different set of exercises... but it's simply not true.

Regardless of your diagnosis, chances are your pain shows up in certain movements or activities which aggravate your symptoms (yucky motions/pain triggers). By identifying these yucky motions- we can then begin testing various inputs (exercise in this case) to determine the impact of these things IMMEDIATELY on your symptoms.

By following along with this video, you will learn a few exercise options and will understand how to test to find what will or will not work for you!

#drcharliejohnsonpt #sciatica #stretching #sciaticnervepain #pinchednerve
--

Say Hello:

*Affiliate Disclaimer:
Note affiliate links allow you to find the items mentioned in this video or other helpful resources and support the channel at no cost to you. While this channel may earn minimal sums when the viewer uses the links, the viewer is in no way obligated to use these links. Thank you for your support!
-

[mkkrupp]

Charlie, I think you are a really committed health provider, have really listened to your clients in the past and have been prepared to innovate and not just ‘go along’ with what has always been recommended.
This is not ‘just a job ‘ for you.
People waste so much money for conventional treatments that in many cases do no good and in some cases do harm.
Thank you for your sincerity. Thank you for your freebies and I hope you are rewarded and your business does well.

[theadventuresofvictorandel]

This process worked for me. I watched and took notes. Found my ‘yucky’ motion and did as instructed and retested. The previously ‘yucky’ motion no longer hurt! Found my ‘medicine’ exercise! I thought I had a sciatic nerve only issue but it is my back that is causing the nerve to pinch. Thank you so much!!! X

[susanfisher]

You make total sense and I followed your advice and feel so much better!!!! I never thought of stretching aggravating the nerve. Thank you!!!!

[promisedprince]

I love you dude, your videos are something like Bob and Brad just with lots more info, God bless you for hellping us!

[chilldudie]

I have worked in IT for over 20 years and this is the first video that finally explained to me how to troubleshoot my sciatica on my left side.

Thank you!

[RohitVishwakarma-ry]

Hey there from India. I have been closely following your videos since 2-3 weeks now and all I can say is thank you because it is me who needs to understand what is yucky and yummy for me and not just blindly follow the things my PT told me to do…and BAM…I have understood that I didn’t need the cobra stretch but needed a forward bend motion.

Also, love the small funny things you say and your wife just bursts out laughing/smiling😂

[georgevanheerden]

Thanks, Dr. Charlie. Your positive vibe is already helping. Keep up the good work. Kind regards.

[katnez]

Wow this worked the twist made leg raise better

[BeHandy]

I agree regarding the not to do. I totally sleep in the wrong position.

[katnez]

Chair bend felt so good especially in the middle. The side with problem felt good with pressure but still good

[markt]

What you need to do is be patient and work on the ones he tells you to because I did it and I noticed that the side that was bothering me after doing the 30 seconds each improved and it doesn't feel bad

[thanhkieuphuc]

Heya, you're the best doctor I've found on this platform when it comes to sciatica problems and I would like to have your opinion on my situation. So i got a l5/4 herniated disc from a failed deadlift last christmas and got sciatica pain on my right leg which made sense because the disc's jelly stuff was on the right side. I started doing cobras and pushes because thats what everyone said and after 2 weeks the pain shifted from my right leg to my left leg. As of now, my right leg is almost completely back to normal besides being a little stiff but no pain at all, while my left leg is still very painful, very stiff and I can't make it straight all the way when i try to do a leg raise seated, lying down or standing up (well i can do it standing up but very much painful), even when i straighten my right leg and raise it i feel pain in the left leg, which has always been very odd to me. Funnily enough when I do the leg raise or leg floss you showed at the end of the video on my right leg, the pain on the left leg starts going away, but when i do it with my left leg it gets worst. Hanging/decompressing sometimes makes it better, sometimes worst and sometimes nothing changes, I'm not sure if it's because of my position or not. It's been 8 long months, the pain is driving me into insanity so please tell me things I could try or even how severe you think my disc herniation/sciatica is, I don't care if it's good or bad news anymore just tell me anything.

[nathanielitoses]

Hi Dr. Charlie, I like your method of deduction in identifying which of the hundreds of available methods will work on your pain. Testing which is "yummy" for your pain, I think, is beter tthan saying that this will work immediately on you, but actually is not suitable. A lot of expert believes this is the correct way of solving your issues (as Dr. Mcgill mentioned that not all his methods work and everyone is different). Thanks for your help and keep up the good work.

[susanapaviolo]

Charlie you are so nice! Teaching and sharing your expertise, everything you say has common sense, diferent of many many tutorial thath only recomendens streching as the only Solution
I m fron argentina
Thanks a lot

[dellves]

Hey Dr Johnson, thank you for your lovely informative videos! (Been a subscriber for several months now) Do you also have videos on gluteal tendinitis? Mine has most likely has triggered by a viral (c***d) infection. I have been ultrasound-diagnosed with edema around the hip joint at the Glut. Med, Glut Min, and Piriformis muscles, which prevented me from walking for several months. Things are getting better and now I can walk but there is still some edema, which has finally come out of the pelvis onto the outer side of my leg up, a bit under the joint). Maybe this edema still creates trouble when I walk longer than 1-2-3 km at a time. Would you recommend I do exercise and which ones or else, I wait for the edema (inflammation) to completely go away? Doctors also suspect L4 nerve issues as second diagnosis as sometimes my leg under my knee gets this "strangling" feeling which also prevents me from walking. Thank you wholeheartedly P.S. The third exercise made things better for me btw. At the testing stage, the second movement was my yuky movement.

[jayaram]

How does a patient with an amputee leg do excercises? Who have butt pain on the amputed leg side. Pls reply doctor. Thanks

[carolynyoung]

What are your thoughts cold and hot application

[johnmoep]

So I have been trying to learn about this stuff because early this summer, my hip ( so I thought) was becoming painful only when I walked. I can go about a half city block and it began to hurt. Shortly after, it started going down my whole leg. Now I can barely walk w/o pain in that leg. I do not have back pain, when I do your leg tests, no pain. Only when I walk. Starts in the hip and goes down. Any suggestions? Please help, I do not want to go to the doctor.
Thanks for any advice you can give me!!!

[Thisismyyoutubenameee]

Is there anything as to help, regarding a pinched nerve, that goes from the shoulder blade, down to your fingers? Thank you for your time😊

[brooklynwolfe]

What if the leg raise is terrible on both sides? :( Not sure what to do when pain is really bad