Hip Sciatic Nerve Flossing

HIP SCIATIC NERVE FLOSSING

The hip sciatic nerve flossing exercise is used to mobilize the sciatic nerve to help reduce inflammation and peripheral nerve impingement. Generally this exercise is to be done in a pain free range of motion, if the end ranges are intolerable you can modify the exercise by moving through a smaller range of motion. Start by lying down on your back on a padded surface like a yoga mat. Keep both legs straight and parallel with the ground. With your target leg, raise it by flexing the hip while maintaining a straight knee and neutral ankle. Complete this movement while simultaneously going into cervical extension (looking up with your head). Once maximal tolerable and tension free range is reached, begin to lower the leg while raising the head off of the ground (into cervical flexion) to complete a repetition.

Structures Involved:

• Sciatic Nerve

Related Conditions:

• L4-L5, L5-S1 Lumbar Disc Herniation

• Piriformis Syndrome

• Peripheral Sciatic Nerve Entrapment

• Sciatica

• Disc Bulge or Bulging Disc

• Slipped Disc

• Prolapsed Disc

• Herniated Nucleus Palposus (HNP)

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