If you have lower back pain with leg cramps, burning and tingling it could be Sciatica. This condition can last for weeks; the pain runs from your lower back to buttocks and down your leg! This usually is the result of a nerve pressing against the lower disc on your back. Most people eventually recover with rest.
For better relief, the ancient technique of Reflexology offers an easy, effective method to loosen the grip of Sciatica pain and speed healing. By applying different types of pressure to the feet it stimulates the relaxation response in the corresponding body part.
Try these 4 following Reflexology points for your Sciatic nerve pain:
*Roll it out. To loosen tension in the foot (and in corresponding back area), roll the foot over a tennis ball, a foot roller or a massage ball while standing.
* Unwind your ankles. Cup your ankle with your thumb resting just below the outside anklebone, and rotate the foot a full 360 degrees in either direction a few times. This exercise loosens the ankles, which function as shock absorbers for the whole body. Any reduction in ankle stress can ease the tightness in your back.
You may need a partner to help with this exercise. Unless you are very flexible!
* Knead your heel. The heel holds the reflexes for the tailbone and lower back region, the origin of Sciatica. The sciatic nerve runs horizontally across your heel.
Make a loose fist and knead your heel with your knuckles to stimulate the nerve and the lower back area.
*Follow your crease. The region around the outside anklebone also relates to the sciaitc nerve. Try walking one or two fingers in the crease below the outer ankle, this is between the Achilles tendon and the ankle bone itself, and then on the inside of the ankle bone also. This technique can help alleviate pain in the leg and hip area.
The trick to relieving Sciatica pain with Reflexology is consistency. Practice these exercises several times a day if you can. This may not provide instant relief but might help with the pain and tension in the back. Overtime with stretching and some over the counter Arnica or MSM cream you can have total relief.
This method is much better for the body than drugs or surgery. Start to relieve your pain today. Practice these four suggestions.
References:
www.alternative medicine.com
www.Mind Body Green.com
Cynthia Burrows, from Austin, Texas, owns Cindy Burrows, Natural Health Consultant; assisting individuals with health issues they would like to change. She will set up a program giving choices of foods, herbs, teas and homeopathic suggestions. Cindy is past owner of Nature’s Healing Herbs, an Herbal, Green Tea, and Tincture product line, and a rare product line of Green Tea Foods. She has certificates for Herbalist at East West School of Herbology, and as Wellness Consultant with the Wellness Forum in Ohio.
Cindy is also a Medical Technologist, with a B.S. degree from Mansfield University in Mansfield Pa., she has been in healthcare for over 30 years. In 2005, she started using a new device founded in Europe, Quantum Biofeedback, “an energy rebalancing of the body”, by using our bodies electricity or frequency waves it can detect stress points in the body, she has added this to her consulting practice. She now has her Certification as a Biofeedback Specialist. She helps her clients by working with the synergy of herbs, food, homeopathy, and aromatherapy within her practice. She is a speaker, writer, and teacher. Cindy has been interviewed on TV; about the benefits of Green Tea and has been on radio about her small business tour to Ecuador.
Cindy has been an herbalist for over 20 years and has spent 6 years learning through the East West School of Herbology with Michael Tierra. She has studied Western, Chinese and Ayurvedic Herbs with a strong emphasis on nutrition. Along with many other continued studies of alternative and complementary medicine. She is a Certified Wellness Consultant, through a special program, The Wellness Forum, which has its nutrition program, now part of the curriculum at Ohio State University, providing educational seminars and workshops designed to impart relevant nutrition information to individuals to take control of their own health. These programs give healthier options and choices that can impact your longevity and quality of life. Cindy has been a speaker to many groups and has conducted many of her own classes on food and healthy life style programs.
Cindy has been involved with a hands-on healing program for the past 4 years and offers energy healing, through donation only, to anyone who needs her services.
She is Co-president of the Austin Herb Society and a member of the American Herbalist Guild. Cynthia has been a board member on many programs in the past including; La Sertoma, Arthritis Foundation, Toastmasters International, National Association of Female Executives, Handicapped Equestrian Learning Program, Entrepreneurs Association, and Austin Integrated Health Care Program.
Cindy also loves nature, animals, reading, blending teas, juices, etc.; likes to hike, and work with plants and, of course, cooking., mostly vegetarian.
Cindy has an adventurous streak.
She has organized and taken tours with business and artists groups to Big Bend, Texas, New Mexico, USA, and Ecuador, South America.
