| Sciatic pain is one of the common discomforts | | | | pelvis). You want to make sure you see a |
| that can affect a woman during her pregnancy. | | | | therapist that is not only trained especially for |
| Often women are led to believe that it's just a | | | | pregnancy massage, but is also trained in |
| side effect of pregnancy and there is nothing | | | | advanced clinical applications of massage, such as |
| they can do about it. In the worst case scenario, | | | | neuromuscular therapy, strain counterstrain, |
| moms may not even be able to walk without | | | | myofascial release and trigger point therapy. The |
| pain, which sometimes results in prescription drugs | | | | therapist can then isolate the constricted muscle |
| to deal with this discomfort. There is a better | | | | and release the tension and trigger points with |
| way to treat this pain that can get rid of the | | | | these advanced applications of massage. |
| sciatica without prescription drugs! | | | | How long does the treatment last? Will the sciatic |
| What is Sciatic Pain? | | | | pain come back? |
| Sciatic pain is often experienced as a tingling or | | | | The answer to these questions depends on the |
| numbness in the low back, back of the pelvis | | | | level of severity of the muscle constriction and |
| buttocks, into the glutes and often down the | | | | what the pregnant mom does after the massage |
| affected leg, sometimes even into the foot. For | | | | to maintain the change. Many moms report that |
| some women, it is a mild discomfort, and for | | | | the sciatic pain is absent for several weeks, but |
| others, it can be so excruciating that it becomes | | | | inevitably returns because of the wear and tear |
| difficult to walk, get in and out of the car and | | | | she is putting on her body with bad posture, poor |
| function in general. The pain is caused by | | | | sleeping positions and lack of stretching. Some |
| compression on the sciatic nerve, a bundle of | | | | moms report the pain disappearing for good! A |
| nerves that run from the low back through the | | | | good prenatal massage therapist will offer you |
| hip-rotator and gluteal muscles. When those hip | | | | helpful information on proper posture during |
| rotators become tight during pregnancy, they can | | | | pregnancy, how to position your legs during sleep |
| clamp down onto the sciatic nerve, causing | | | | so that you are not constricting the muscles |
| compression. | | | | further, and how to stretch the piriformis muscle. |
| How is it treated with therapeutic pregnancy | | | | Bottom line: You don't have to suffer through |
| massage? | | | | sciatic pain during pregnancy! |
| Therapeutic pregnancy massage can treat sciatic | | | | You can treat sciatic pain without drugs. Find a |
| pain by addressing the tight muscle that is often | | | | skilled licensed and certified therapeutic prenatal |
| the culprit of sciatic nerve compression - the | | | | massage therapist near you! You will be thankful |
| piriformis. The piriformis is a hip rotator that runs | | | | that you can walk again without pain and |
| from the sacrum to the greater trochanter (that's | | | | discomfort. |
| the outside of where the thigh bone meets the | | | | |