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  • Sciatica: Symptoms, Causes, Treatment, and Prevention

    Are you experiencing pain, numbness, or weakness in the area going from your lower back all the way down your leg? And does it get worse when you move, cough, or sneeze? Then, you might have sciatica.

    This is a fairly common ailment that affects many Americans each year, with varying degrees of intensity. If your sciatica is mild, chances are that it will go away on its own over time. But if you’ve been battling with sciatica for a while, it’s now time to do something about it once and for all.

    You’ve come to the right place: keep reading and we’ll give you the lowdown on sciatica. We’ll explain what it is, what causes it, how to treat it, and how to prevent it from re-occurring.

    What Exactly Is Sciatica Pain?

    The term “sciatica” refers to pain in a very specific area that goes from your lower back down to your leg, foot, and toes, passing through your glutes. This occurs when the sciatic nerve becomes inflamed or irritated.

    The type of pain, as well as its severity, caused by sciatica, can vary. Some people experience a pins-and-needles kind of pain and numbness, while others may feel in real agony.

    Sciatica shouldn’t be confused with lower back pain. While the lumbar area can be painful in people who suffer from sciatica, localized lower back pain with no other symptoms is usually not enough for a diagnosis of sciatica. Also, unlike lower back pain, sciatica pain generally focuses on one side of the body.

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  • Common 3 structures in your lower back that you need to know before having lower back surgery.

    You have back pain that is tight, stiff, or sharp. Your morning pain could be something you are having a hard time shaking off. Or is it the idea of picking something off from the floor? With many people experiencing lower back pain, there are only a handful of lower back pain diagnosis that account for the majority of the lower back cases. We will be addressing three important structures in your lower back region that is playing a role in your spinal health, rehabilitation, and recovery.

    Let us start out by establishing the 5 common diagnosis you may have been told.

    • Lumbar disc herniation, bulge, “slipped” disc, or other various disc related pathologies
    • Lumbar spine stenosis or spondylosis
    • Lumbar spondylolisthesis or instability
    • Sacroiliac joint dysfunction or pain
    • Muscle sprain or strain

    These diagnosis are part of a sequence of spinal stress and loading patterns that the lumbar spine goes through but has trouble sustaining and recovering from these load patterns. Basically, you are not trained to do what you are doing or not recovering sufficiently, so the lumbar disc, vertebral body, facets, or neighboring muscles and joints fatigue and “fail”.

    We quoted the word FAIL because failure of the anatomical structures has no connection to pain and mobility over the long term. You may feel pain for years, but research have demonstrated with high level of evidence that structures does not equate to severity of symptoms. The interpretation, process, and ability to execute certain movement skills WITH a combination of a comprehensive protocol of sleep hygiene, blood sugar regulation, and emotional health are factors that have been highlighted as being more important to spinal pain.

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  • Knowing your Sciatic nerve anatomy to help your sciatica nerve pain.

    There are numerous articles and many more videos of people showing you how to help your sciatica nerve pain. Many of these articles briefly glance over the anatomy. The problem is that anatomy and functionality is the most important part in ridding your sciatica nerve pain.

    As a Spine and Sports Medicine Specialist in Long Beach, California, we have helped 1000’s of people walk, run, lift, and resume their sport after dealing with sciatica. You can get better too.

    Do you know if you have sciatica or something that mimics sciatica?

    That is the first clinical riddle that we must answer when we first try to help a client dealing with nerve pain to their leg.

    Basic Anatomy 101: Sciatic Nerve

    Anatomical dissection showing sciatic nerve and surrounding muscles.

    Your sciatic nerve is a combination of your tibial and common fibular nerve. At this junction, the two bundle of nerves connect to your four hamstring muscles and adductor magnus muscles. Your hamstring muscles consist of your semimembranosus, semitendinosus, long head bicep femoris, and short head bicep femoris muscles.

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  • Everything you need to know about your hamstring anatomy, movement, and injury from a Sports Medicine Physical Therapy Specialist.

    We are starting a comprehensive guide to helping you to understand your body from a movement and Orthopedic science perspective. Your Hamstring Muscles are on the top 5 muscles of a misunderstood muscle group in your body.

    We are starting a comprehensive guide to helping you to understand your body from a movement and Orthopedic science perspective. Your Hamstring Muscles are on the top 5 muscles of a misunderstood muscle group in your body.

    We are starting this series with the good o’ “tight” hamstring that everyone tends to stretch to minimal results. The article will be in the order that is listed below.

    • Basic Anatomy 101: Muscle
    • Important anatomy important for hamstring muscle strain recovery
    • Movement Analysis
    • Pain Pattern
    • Orthopedic Muscle Injury Grading system
    • Holistic and Functional Perspective

    Basic Anatomy 101: Muscle

    Did you know that your Hamstring Muscle is a group of 4 muscles?

    You have two muscles located on the inner back thigh called the Semimembranosus and Semitendinosus muscle. These two muscles connect to the ischial tuberosity of your pelvis. There is a ligament called the Sacrotuberous ligament that helps to connect the work energy of the Hamstring muscle to your pelvis, and vice-versa. Basically, the ligament is the bridge between what is happening at the pelvis, hip joint, femur bone, and knee joint. This is an important concept to remember for later.

    You have two muscles located on the outer back thigh called the Bicep Femoris Short and Long Head muscle. The same-origin connection of the Bicep Femoris muscle goes for this group. They have a fascial connection to the Sacrotuberous ligament. This ligament plays a role in being a part of the sciatic notch and important to remember as we will elaborate more below on how muscles impact spinal health and the surround nerves, such as the infamous sciatic nerve.

    As we go back to the two outer hamstring muscles, you will see that both Bicep Femoris muscles connect to the outer aspect of your tibia and fibula. As a muscle crosses over a joint, it plays a role in stabilizing and protecting that part of the joint. The Lateral or Fibular Collateral Ligament (LCL) runs intimately close by. If you have an issue with the LCL and sprain your lateral knee, the lateral hamstring muscles will be important in your Physical Therapy Sports Medicine rehabilitation.

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  • Liver-heart-lymphatic axis. The missing piece to helping your nagging discomfort and muscle tightness.

    What you may not be aware of is the connection of every organ to yourself. Today we will highlight the liver-heart-lymphatic system’s connection. As Long Beach’s only Sports Medicine and Orthopedic Physical Therapy that emphasizes healing from within, we preach that there are two ways to getting any little tension or discomfort to go away FOR GOOD.

    1. Do more “good”.
    2. Do less “bad” or get rid of the “bad”.

    The lymphatic system works closely with your circulation system.

    Why should you care?

    You can do tons of “good” stuff like stretching and strengthening, but if you are getting little rewards or not lasting gains, you must look at the lymphatic system.

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  • How to Get More Out of Your Yoga Stretches When You Have Back Pain

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    Yoga is becoming more popular nowadays as a tool that helps people stay limber, and for some types, food for the mind. There are many styles of yoga. If you participate in the right yoga class or sequence in the right yoga exercises, you can unlock crazy amount of true raw strength that is within your body. Many people do not know that yoga has been shown to be an effective back pain solution. Go check out the recent Consumer Report issue in regards to Back Pain. (click on the picture of CR magazine to read their article)CRO_COVER_6_2017

    ReVITALize Rehab Club understands that in order be life resilient, you would need to master the four categories of flexibility, strength, coordination and endurance. If you get the proper mixture of yoga moves, sequencing and prolong holds of certain moves, you are addressing these four categories in a short time span.

    If you follow our club, you understand that we promote and address internal wellness like our digestive organs, and believe this will enhance our muscles and joints systems to work smarter. Yoga has been shown to be a great modality for digestive health and other internal organ benefits.

    As a partnership with Free Spirit Yoga Studio in Long Beach, ReVITALize Rehab Club is excited to write this article about our favorite moves for back health. Low back pain is usually a culprit of two muscles doing too much work. This include the two bulky (more…)

  • Let The Lion Eat Me!

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    “Let the lion eat me!” said a middle aged, well kept lady diagnosed with fibromyalgia.  What?!!! Are you kidding me?  I said in my head.  I am suppose to teach her how to handle life’s curveball NOT throw me one.  Shocked and confused, I stood there wondering what is the right response to that would be.  “Ummm…”  It took a brief moment for me to collect my thoughts but I responded, “Let’s tame the lion instead and reconsider that later.”

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  • Catch-a-Sciaticasaurus, GO! (Part 2)

    FantasticFire2What kind of Pokemon is a Sciaticasaurus?  It is a fast, elusive, stubborn, “sharp,” fire or electric type creature.  To catch it and be “the boss of it” requires patience and determination.  In the real world a Sciaticasaurus is known as Sciatica.  25937tn

    “True” Sciatica is where the sciatic nerve is inflamed and irritated.  (Pseudo) “leg pain” sciatica is when the irritation is coming from the spine, which includes spinal nerve and possible tissues surrounding the spine.   (more…)