Greetings again! This is Athena Jezik. We're gonna
work on some more videos and explain some things out.
Sciatica seems to be a problem that many many people suffer from so i thought i
would go through a little bit
more sciatica
work and explanation on how i deal with sciatica. There's many different
techniques that people have but for me this has been the most effective
and i'm also learning that there's different types of things that come from
that area.
Sciatica usually is pain coming from about here. When it's real bad it will run down the leg. It's a
nerve pain so it runs as though it's a
like a hot
iron or a hot rod going down the leg. Very uncomfortable.
Sometimes there's pain though in other parts of the hip
which isn't really the classic sciatica but it does still involve things
similar
because there's so many nerves that come out of this sacral area. So
that's another thing that i've been discovering.
So not everything that
happens with the pain and going down the leg is maybe the classic
sciatica
but it doesn't matter because
in my opinion naming a lot of things doesn't really do anything except for
make it a disease and then a disease is only by law treatable by the western medical
people.
So that's just names and labels. The thing is we want to get people out of pain.
We want to move them into a space of being able to function well.
So in that pain area of the hip
impinging nerves and creating bad sensation or pain down the leg
we'll call that the sciatica pain
and of course it comes from here and I find that it is
always
got a direct connection to the positioning of the sacrum
that also has a direct connection to the position of the sphenoid bone
at the occipital base and I'm gonna show you a little bit of this...
I'll just show it to you now.
Excuse me it's early in the morning and I'm
kind of foggy today.
So the sacrum is sitting here
and
in that sacral bone there is a lot of nerves that come out from here.
These little holes are where they come out of
so if that is position a little bit crooked on there, which happens quite a
bit
then we're gonna have this pressure.
The nerves are not going to be coming out with the proper
alignment
and the nerves are gonna have pressure on them when they are twisted a little bit.
sometimes this bone can be in a position that's a little more like this
or it can also be an a combination of that particular pattern
so it's important to be able to allow this bone to be able to lengthen down.
This is something
better done if the body can do it itself.
If it's forced into it, it doesn't always mean that it's going to hold
because there's a bunch of stuff underneath there.
The network of the facial structure, the membranes under that that will twist
like a nylon stocking
and so if it's forced back
it will go back but because of the underlying structures there it will
pull it back into that
odd position.
This is translating up into the head and because I'm a cranial sacral therapist
and I've been doing it for so many years I have a lot of understanding how
these connections are made.
So right in there where the
purple and the yellow come together is the sphenobasilar
junction.
The sphenoid bone is the yellow bone
right here
and so that bone touches all the other bones and it does relate directly to the
sacrum at this joint.
So if this sacral structure is sideways, crooked on there, that's
going to be placed and it's going to be like so
The same thing is gonna happen at at the head. This sphenoid bone is going to be
out
in a similar manner
because it's a counterbalance for what's going on with the body. So it keeps
things balanced so that we feel somewhat straight.
So that's areas that I look for in work around low back pain
particularly down in the sacral area.
I do not like to do the hard
pushing with the elbow.
For one thing
You can get through muscles that way but your elbows are not very sensitive as to what
you're really doing and what structures you're on
and i have found that when i've tried to work elbows even forearms the bones and
the bony surfaces.. it's just too rough. I don't feel good about it. It
doesn't feel productive so I don't use that method.
Also sometimes when the nerve is
affected there's inflammation. So in my opinion the way that I see things is
by driving yourself into that nerve,
through those muscles with a bunch of inflammation going on is not really
going to help the problem.
So there's little things like that that I pay attention to that I don't
know if many other people take a lot of that into account
because we do get sort of a technique to loosen things up and
it doesn't always
provide for us the thoughts of what's happening at the subtle
anatomy level.
So I test this just by checking at the occipital base and at the
sacrum
to see the position of everything
and once the position is established
then I can go in and work with the sacrum in order to
correct it.
Sometimes this will be corrected quickly and sometimes it's not corrected as
quickly
and I believe that a lot of that is because it's maybe not a true
quote "sciatica" but there's other stuff going on maybe in the hip joint.
There might be some kind of misalignment in the pubic arch. There might be some
kind of a rotation in the hip as well
so other things
have to happen. So here I'm just giving a little drag on the sacrum
and letting it loosen up and letting it swim around and my other hand is at the
occipital base.
Just steadying the dural tube.
And so there
I just wait a little while and then
I will soften the muscle area around there.
I work really differently. It just kind of depends.
So much of my work is intuitive. There's somewhat of a protocol that I follow
but each person presents things differently. No two bodies are ever the
same.
No injury patterns are ever the same.
So flexibility is important to be able to
move from
various techniques and not follow things
too rigidly particularly in pain problems
and issues
Then the other thing that i will do is to get my finger at the
base of the sacrum...
Excuse me, at L5 S1,
which is right in this area here
L5 S1
so
try to put some distance between there because that's where the jamming
probably tends to be. Sometimes it's at the coccyx.
And I'll show you that technique as well.
So with that you just do a little stretching integrating in with the
muscles integrating in with the tissues and then just waiting for it to move.
This is going face down.
There is a better way to do the sacral pull when they are on their back
but this way will also open it up.
Either way is fine and my other hand up here is also feeling some rotation and
some movement
coming up the spine.
So as one area of the spine is off every little vertebrae is affected to some
degree. There's
a little bit of adjustment that they have to make in order to
keep the misalignment aligned
and the bodies just gonna do that it's gonna work within the framework that it has
and it's gonna normalize whether a pattern is there.
And so there now we're getting it softened and now there's a little bit of a
stretch happening.
I'm stretching downward with the hand that's on the L5 S1.
And I am
taking a little bit of a stretch upward.
Just a little traction.
No deeper than the fascial level. So we have skin, fluid, then fascia.
So I'm three layers down and giving a little stretch there
and i'm feeling quite a bit of rumbling going on and there is a separation
happening
between L5 S1
And it just swims around and the sacrum is trying right now to find its way back to the
proper
position.
It's a good idea, if you know cranial work to also balance it at the spenoid
level because the sphenoid bone,
if not corrected, can
pull this thing out. Sometimes this will correct the sphenoid bone but
it's a good idea to check both.
She just had a couple pulses. There's a lot of activity going on.
Even though she's not suffering from sciatica
or any kind of hip
serious pain problems there's still a lot of activity going on,
which is correcting
little misalignments in there,
which is a reason that we should be
paying attention to maintenance.
Even though we're not hurting, we might wanna have
some kind of session just for tweaking.
I see a number of people who come in
regularly
every four to six weeks just to be tweaked with cranial work
And I myself have an hour and a half session with somebody
once a month.
And I love it when I get it.
It took me a while to find somebody that I
felt
was at my capacity.
Okay
and then the other position is just to lay the hand on the sacrum here
and curl the fingers at L5 S1 and give a little bit of traction this way.
This is a little tricky because you have to keep the palm of the hand pretty
secure and the fingers have to bend
so there's quite a lot of technique in the hands
in order to get the right feeling. And the hands have to work independently because
I'm right at the sacral
coccyx junction and I'm stretching downward on that while I'm
allowing the movement, which is a little bit of a
swaying motion at L5 S1. There's a downward traction as well as
this being loose
to be able to align.
at the same time it's being tractioned
downward.
Okay and
there's some movement happening.
These techniques will usually give quite a bit of change to the pain.
It doesn't mean that one time is going to give
total remedy to the problem
but it does begin to correct that space.
Once that's corrected then we can go in and also work into the muscles,
much deeper into the musculature.
And the only reason i work into the musculature is to loosen the muscles so that
they're not sinching down around those nerves
because
if they are sinching around those nerves then they are not gonna
let go really easy even though the alignment happens
so i just worked really deeply into these glutial muscles
for the purpose of the muscle
again, not the purpose of the nerve.
And I'm careful if I go into the area where the sciatic
is the main place where you can
feel it.
I do not go into that with a lot of deep pressure because again I don't like going
into the
inflamed areas and I don't like going into pain
with a lot of pressure.
I don't think in my work
it gives me the better results.
Okay and then
up front and there is
many areas of the hip
to take and loosen.
And along the ridge of the hip as well
coming from the sacrum.
Working all that. And of course both sides are benefited.
I won't do too much on this side.
Both sides have benefited by that.
You can even go into the attachments of the hamstrings.
In fact it's a good idea to make sure that the
quadriceps
and hamstrings
are well stretched.
With this there's also some stretches that can be done with
the leg, but I will show that at another time
So basically
what i do is corrected the position of the sacrum to alleviate the pain of the
sciatic pain or hip pain.
Thank you very much! This is Athena Jezik.
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