Remedial Massage Treatment of the Hip and Leg for Sciatic Pain, available in Littleport Cambs
If you are suffering from pain in the hip which travels down your thigh or beyond your knee first consult your GP. There are set checks which he will perform to establish what is causing the pain. Sciatic pain can be caused by a herniated disc in the lumbar spine. The bulging disc presses on the sciatic nerve and this can cause pain which can run down the leg as far as the toes. The pain pattern will differ depending on where and how the nerve is pinched.
If however, your pain is caused by the pressure of the piriformis muscle on the sciatic nerve much can be done to help this with remedial massage treatment. Tension in the pirformis muscle is better eased with movement and massage to the affected areas. Your remedial massage therapist will be able to recommend stretches specifically for this problem which will rapidly ease the spasm and lengthen the muscle to reduce pressure on the sciatic nerve. Remedial massage treatment can ease this problem rapidly. It is better to keep yourself mobile, in fact if your sciatica is caused by the piriformis pressing on the sciatic nerve you will often find that it is actually more comfortable for you to be up and moving around.
Certainly, check in with your GP and if he doesn’t consider it to be a disk problem then get some massage as soon as you can get booked in. You’ll be back on your feet in no time!