May 3, 2024

Avoid and Repair Sciatic and Low Back Pain

by Phoenix

Some say that sitting is the new smoking.

I don’t know if that’s true, but I do know that a large percent of clients, friends, family in our community sit somewhere between 2-10 hours per day and report some form of low back and sciatic pain. Imagine the impact of all your upper body weight along with gravity coming down on you butt, hips and low back for hours each day.

What could go wrong?

How could this affect circulation?

Could this slowdown blood with valuable oxygen and nutrients traveling to your pelvis, legs and feet?

How about the returning CO2 and waste back up to your organs for elimination?

Have you ever woken up with a numbness in your extremities?

The numbness and tingling are warning signs that nerves, veins, arteries and muscles in your arm are going to die if you do not do something quick. This same stagnation and compression occur when we sit for long periods. Without movement the blood and nerve flow comes to a halt in our lower extremities and pelvis.

After years of car driving, sitting at desks, lounging in front of Netflix, our sciatic nerves, two of the largest nerves in our body, that originates in our lower spine and runs through our butt, along our legs, behind our knees and all the way down to the bottom of our feet gets irritated. The nerves and tissue get compressed, irritated, and begin to suffocate and die.

Sorry to sound so morbid, however, chronic back pain and sciatica are at epidemic levels in America.

Read Phoenix’s full blog on his website here.