Thread: left sided lower back/butt pain

sounds like early sciatica...it will travel down your leg if you dont stop deadlifting and squatting..take a few weeks off bro, before it gets worse...get an x-ray if you can...on the days its bad, take 400-800mg of Motrin with food to help the pain. I went through the same thing

As for stretches:
1) Lie on the floor on your back. Pull your knees to your chest and hold for 20-30 seconds and roll back and forth (right to left) if you can

2) Do that same one above but with one leg and no rolling.

3) Lie on the floor. Bend your knees and bring them together on the left side of your body. Keep them knees on the ground and close to your body. Let your right arm stretch on your right side. Repeat on the right side. for 20-30 secs.

4) Lie on the floor. Cross left foot over right knee. Clasp hands behind right thigh and gently pull the leg in towards you, keeping upper body relaxed. Switch Legs. This will help stretch your glutees, and do these before you squat when you get back into it.

-SOrry if i didnt make it clear, i treid my best to help you..also, do some light ab work, and work on your core (single leg curls, planks, leg raises, crunches with your low back on the ground and bring your chin up 6-inches, you know the RIGHT way to do crunches)
Stretching Exercises - Lower Body Stretching - Exercise
-there ya go!

don't do the generic protocol above. determine the true cause of the problem. some of those exercises may increase your symptoms depending on what the issue is. Any pain running in the low back and glute region is not sciatica....there needs to be pain going down the back of the leg and into the calf on the affected side for it to be true sciatica.

You need to get evaluated by someone who can sit in front of you, ask you questions, take history, and perform provactive testing to determine what the problem is.

Originally Posted by P-funk

don't do the generic protocol above. determine the true cause of the problem. some of those exercises may increase your symptoms depending on what the issue is. Any pain running in the low back and glute region is not sciatica....there needs to be pain going down the back of the leg and into the calf on the affected side for it to be true sciatica.

You need to get evaluated by someone who can sit in front of you, ask you questions, take history, and perform provactive testing to determine what the problem is.

yeah that is true...BUT, it can be sciatica, i had it and i had those same symptoms he was having then BOOM pain travelling down the leg

yes...it can be a lot of things! sciatica, herniated disc, osteophyte, spondy, trigger points in the glute medius, trigger points in the piriformins, trigger points in the glute minimus, trigger points in the QL, pelvic obliquity, SI joint problem...on and on....Don't GUESS! Get it figured out. Trust me.

Patrick

haha got me there!!!

i am not trying to "get" anyone. i am just saying that the symptoms of all of those things can be very similiar, so guessing over the internet can be pretty much impossible.

Also, lets say it is sciatica.....we would still have no way of determing if the sciatic nerve is being impinged at the vertebral column, by the piriformis, or somewhere else.....which makes instruction through the internet difficult as well.

patrick