Sciatica Exercises & Home Treatment: Simple, Effective Care For Sciatica and Piriformis Syndrome

I found this book helpful and easy to understand, not full of jargon. Fingers crossed it will help me deal with sciatica.

Good book and the exercises work.

Very useful. happy to find this as I have been suffering with this for quite a while.

Good read

At this particular time when you struggle to see a doctor it is a great help if you can try to understand your problem and try some self help excercises, i have found this book very useful

Great and the best bit of advise from the book

Really useful information which has helped with pain relief. Two very positive exercises. The main thing is it tells you what to expect and how/what the pain means so you can work out what is best for you and have a goal to work to. Also the pillow trick for sleeping in my case is working brilliantly.

EXCELLENT BOOK CAME VERY QUICK WELL PACKED AND A VERY GOOD READ FROR SCIATICA.

Avevo gia visto queste illustrazioni e spiegazioni in diversi versioni sul web ed ho voluto avere tutte le lezioni raccolte in questo libro. Il dr. George F Best mi è sembrato molto rigoroso nell'illustrare come si puo attenuare i dolori della sciatica facendo una distinzione tra il dolore dovuto al muscolo Piriformis ed quello dovuto alla pressione delle vertebre sul nervo sciatico oppure sulla combinazione di entrambi. Un libro molto chiaro e spiegato in modo molto riassuntivo

The best clearest most comprehensive book on Sciatic pain I have ever seen in one place. Illustrations are clear, instructions for use of heat or cold and what your symptoms may be indicating as well as the importance of becomming aware of your body mechanics that may be contributing to pain and dysfunction are all included. I liked his explination of centralizing which in essence means if your painful symptoms are retracting farther up the leg toward the back then things are getting better. If movements and treatment makes pain extend farther down the leg then dont do it. Dr. Best has a great website with many good tips for a nominal yearly fee that includes personalized answers to your questions and yes he answers promptly. The feeling I have is that Dr. Best is truly interested in helping people help themselves. Having just had a miserable bout of muscle impingement sciatica myself what helped me the most was rest, aspirin, application of heat every couple of hours for 15 minutes and once before bed and once before I got out of bed in the morning. Morning was the worst pain and heat first really helped. Sleeping with pillow under knees either on back or on side also gave relief. It took about 2 weeks before the spasms went away. Supportive shoes also seemed to help as did standing up and not sitting too long. I also had a great massage therapist who gently loosened my hips and massaged outer legs which also helped.

Highly over priced and not of much use .

Okay. Nice looking book.

To make it brief, this book very quickly helped me to sort out the kind of sciatica I had through a few simple diagnostics, including body postures--if this hurts it's this, if not, likely this. It had a good discussion of how sciatica can originate, which helped me to quickly identify where my nerve pinch related sciatica came from. So I got some pretty immediate relief from knowing what my problem was, and how to change what I was doing (some crazy lifting and posture issues on my sofa!). Also warned me against hot compresses and to go for cold ones instead--I was on the wrong track so that set me straight. Not-so-good--if you look at the book cover, there it is, the one exercise (plus 2 minor variations, all on the floor) to help you get over the kind of sciatica I have. The sad thing is, one is supposed to do that exercise several times every hour, for an initial 3 days, and less thereafter. That just does not work at my office. I found some other effective stretches that I can do sitting up in a chair or on an airplane (where I spend way too much time) that brought me relief. I wish there had been more diversity in exercises. Bottom line--I got the relief I needed in a day or two with stretches, change in habits, abandoning my heat compress, and some anti-inflammatories. Three days later, and I'm back in business without drugs, and some habit changes exercises to do regularly to keep me out of trouble. Compared to what a lot of people suffer, I haven't had to go through much, because I jumped on this early and did not have the extreme problems others may. But it put an end to my two weeks of agony. Was that worth the cost? HAELL yeah!