Any sciatic pain doc recommendations (for my son)?

[Erni]

Does he weight lift? I have had pain there due to ?hip walking ?. Basically I would lock my right leg and lift it with the left to walk. Old knee injury without PT.
I did a huge weight lifting run a few years ago and got past the novice phase. Once everything got stronger I was able to force the lazy muscles to work. Still not perfect. But you need to get the form right or else something else will go.

There is a wired stretch that helps too. Basically put the faulty legs heel on the ground. With your back stiff try to lean forward. You won?t get far but it puts pressure directly on there.

[Ramsker]

Does he weight lift? I have had pain there due to ?hip walking ?. Basically I would lock my right leg and lift it with the left to walk. Old knee injury without PT.
I did a huge weight lifting run a few years ago and got past the novice phase. Once everything got stronger I was able to force the lazy muscles to work. Still not perfect. But you need to get the form right or else something else will go.

There is a wired stretch that helps too. Basically put the faulty legs heel on the ground. With your back stiff try to lean forward. You won?t get far but it puts pressure directly on there.

He's not a big exerciser . . . which probably doesn't help. He's been given some stretches to do and they do them at PT, but he says they aren't really helping. Been trying to search around for other stretches that might give some incremental improvement. He's also icing, taking Advil, etc. Chiro and PT also told him to get new shoes, so he did replace all his shoes. So far, no joy.

They've done x-rays and nothing stood out. I really think the MRI is needed to see if there is some soft tissue issue, disc issue, bone spur, etc. At least rule them in or out. Not sure why it's taking so long for that--I have really good insurance and have gotten same-day MRIs before. Planning on talking to the chiro who is a good friend about it to see what the story is.

[Erni]

He's not a big exerciser . . . which probably doesn't help. He's been given some stretches to do and they do them at PT, but he says they aren't really helping. Been trying to search around for other stretches that might give some incremental improvement. He's also icing, taking Advil, etc. Chiro and PT also told him to get new shoes, so he did replace all his shoes. So far, no joy.

They've done x-rays and nothing stood out. I really think the MRI is needed to see if there is some soft tissue issue, disc issue, bone spur, etc. At least rule them in or out. Not sure why it's taking so long for that--I have really good insurance and have gotten same-day MRIs before. Planning on talking to the chiro who is a good friend about it to see what the story is.

Not into exercise, I get it. But sounds like that might be the cause of weak muscles leading to misaligned posture etc.
One thing for me was that lifting the way I was ?taught ? in school is ineffective and mostly leafy me sore. Good program really just leaves you tired and hungry with little lactic pain. Anyway if you can get him to lift. A good run at squats and deadlifts is like a back reset.

Unless this is a slipped disc or something. Then it?s hard to say what to do.