I just wanted to share a story of how I cured sciatica.

First, I was training in martial arts of Tae Kwon-Do, Shaolin Kungfu, and other arts, for many years. My back was clearly not as strong as the muscles that I was using and eventually gave way with a rupture of the L5-S1 vertebral disc. Disc material was seen to ingress the spinal canal 9mm down the paracentral left nerve route and seen to abut the sciatic nerve into the left side of my body. The pain was beyond explanation.

I had to see an osteopath for several years who gave me very specific stretches to help with the pain and, eventually, it healed.

I made a youtube video on how I did this, and I thought I'd share it here.

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Welcome back to BlackBelt Secrets I hope you've found it useful so far. So, Ian Harley asks a good question about stretches for sciatic nerve pain. As it happens I've got a bit of experience managing pain and symptoms from low back pain and sciatic nerve pain I had a ruptured disc L5 to S1 about four and a half years ago and I've been in the care of an osteopath ever since then. I have managed to keep training and to this day now I'm pretty much symptom-free providing that I manage the pain and the stretching properly. 

I do see my osteopath quite regularly so I've taken all of his advice to make sure that I do everything I can to manage the symptoms and more importantly that I prevent the symptoms coming back again.

Small disclaimer: Whilst I am a fully qualified instructor I am not medically qualified so everything and am giving you is their information that I've gathered from my osteopath and from my experience having dealt with and manage this pain. There is one important to understand the nature of low back pain and there and where it comes from and there are also the surrounding factors that can have the biggest impact on low-back pain in causing it and it said it's not as obvious to say that it sports or martial arts that cause pain although I've met many doctors that would like to tell you that it is a direct result of sports injuries. 

In actual fact I believe and my osteopath believes that to your life patterns and the way you walk when you sit and the general ergonomics of your everyday life have much more impact on low back pain and probability of the joints and muscle tissue than just doing sports. Doing sport carries the risk that you can manage those risks and manage the pain if you are following that advice good stretching routines and you surround your training with proper care and attention.

So what are the stretches and so the best post I found so far as to stretch out the muscles and ligaments in the backs of the upper thigh because they are the closest to the sciatic nerve and they mostly surround the sciatic nerve and I found that if the muscles get stiff then this is the first thing that will cause irritation to the nerves within it, and obviously the nerve surrounding the lower back portion of the spine.

One excellent stretch I've found is to bring ankle across the front of the opposite thigh and then lift that leg up and wrap your hands around and bring this closer towards the chest do this gently so it shouldn't be painful but it will free out all of the ligaments and muscles inside of the thigh and let it down and then repeat again and gradually you can increase the stretch, and this you will feel a direct response from the upper part of the thigh and therefore the lower back which restricts both sides of the muscles the balance between one side.

Another great strength that relieves the pain is very simple but effective if you find some surface to put human and then just gently moving around until it relaxes and keeps users to relax alike rather than stretch it then that once you relax into a straight position then you can rotate the leg from left to right now what this does is frees up all the ligament inside the muscle is not just about stretching its freeing things up because pain often comes from trapped nerves.

Next, we going to do a rotational stretch of the spine going to stand with your back against the wall going to rotate the left and the right gently which is going to stretch out the spine in a gentle way we going to just let the hip turn just as much as I need to for you to turn your torso to face the wall they can do this to the left of the right cheek and to gently move around there's not much force required you not pushing into the stretch at all and as you can see the hips and the command just as much as is necessary to turn your upper body towards the wall you should feel this stretch out and loosen up your back particularly your lower back as you move around so this is just a very gentle exercise but done daily and combine with other exercises can be a great way to relieve pain and keep the back nice and subtle

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1. New laws will ban smoking in cars containing under 18s, coming into force October 2015.
2. Did you know? Schools are now allowed to hold spare emergency inhalers without a prescription, to keep children with asthma safe at school.
3. Plans to provide new tax-free childcare for working families in 2015, so they can claim 20% off childcare costs for children under 5.
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The Make a Plea scheme is intended to save time and money in relation to relatively minor road traffic allegations. Therefore, it will not affect those charged with more serious offences. However, for those facing prosecution for selected minor matters such as speeding, driving without a license, or, failing to notify the driver, the new scheme offers the public a choice. What are the options?

Pleading ‘Guilty’ at Court

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The Written ‘Guilty’ Plea

One often has the option of pleading ‘Guilty’ by post. Again, this method saves time and inconvenience. One can set out one’s mitigation (those factors one asks the court to take into account in your favour before sentencing) in writing. One is normally not given the option of a written ‘Guilty’ plea when the court is considering disqualification from driving. If a ‘Guilty’ plea had been tendered in writing and the court was considering disqualification it would normally require the attendance of the offender prior to sentencing. Therefore, up until now, for minor matters the written ‘Guilty’ plea has often proved to be the most suitable option.

The Make a Plea Scheme

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