Sciatica with Herniated Disc? Best Way to Walk, Sit, Sleep, & Drive. 

21 years old, and i already have to watch these videos...this is my life now i guess.

Im 22 , i had injury when I was 19 and I had constant pain in my left leg and back . Many doctors I have seen all of them told the same thing 'we dnt know whats your problem' . Well i lived with that pain till this year and it went chronic where i was bed ridden and i put on alot of weight bcs im tired mentally and phtsically always bcs of the pain . Finally I gave up and went to physiologist and they found out im having l4,l5 slip disc . Suffered for 3 years , i feel you guys who is suffering stay strong guys 💓

Really, after 3 days of watching a lot of your videos and doing a lot of exercises you guys recommend, I can say that my heart is less broken than before. Thank you!! Really humble of you guys!!

I'm 21 years old and I'm watching this right now at 2 am. 😭 Oh god heal me

This is amazing! I've been in pain for months, wanting to rip my hair out. I've got 2 slipped discs and it hasn't been easy to deal with. I tried the method with laying down and putting 2 pillows under my feet and oh my God! I felt the first bit of pain relief in months! I had a massive smile on my face too, thank you!

Thank you so much, you guys have help me with my sciatica/herniated disc issues, Keep making videos , your helping a lot of people,God Bless you both

Thanks a lot for sharing the tips. I've suffered from sciatica for almost 4 months now. I always wake up with aching & painful body. Last night, I slept in the way you guys are showing. OMG! It's the first time i wake up with much less aching pain. I'll keep follow your advice till the pain goes away. Plus, I don't have health insurance. So, I can't see the doctor and i have to suffer the pain. But now, you two save me from the pain. Thanks a lot. God bless u two.

Thank you so much for these videos! I have been suffering from a disc bulge for 8 months and nobody has been able to help. I'm only 25 and every remedy doctors, physio's, etc. have offered only seemed to irritate or make the pain worse. After watching a plethora of your videos and following the various exercises, tips, etc. I am finally feeling relief but more importantly have gained hope that my life will return to normal! Thank you!! You guys are a God sent :]

I'm 18 with really bad sciatica and I actually use a cane because I just cant walk around a lot anymore when I'm out and about in public. It was weird and just felt embarrassed at first but it sure does help and I've learned to accept it knowing it helps. These videos really have been helping me, I ended up randomly finding this channel and I'm super grateful. 👍🏼

I haven’t been able to sleep in over a week, maybe 30 minutes here or there from the excruciating pain, the towel under my back has been a life saver I got my first nights worth of sleep in a very long time.

I’m 26 now dealing with a numb left foot and very weak joints and all day cracking. Go to pt next week again for the second time this year. I hurt my back when I was 18 the first time. Factory job, 23 plumbing and heating job. 25 basketball injury. I was very athletic. 400 meter dash time 52.9 seconds. I wouldn’t wish this pain on anyone. Quality of life goes down

I'd call you both the most loved physio therapists ♥

You guys are lucky, I’m a17 year old athlete with 2 back herniation, jumpers knees and a calf strain that doesn’t get better. Be humble everyone

At 5:35 a pillow position is shown. For those who might try it, or have and did not feel comfortable: I improvised a similar position for a while (instinctually). My sciatica is on my right side, so I'd lay in bed on my left side and position my right leg so my right knee (slightly bent) would hang over my left leg and I'd turn my right let and foot to the left as far as it could go. This stretched my right leg in a way that temporarily alleviated pain. I did try the pillows, for my right sided sciatica, but it caused pain in my left knee. I hope this slight alteration of the pillow technique helps others.

These techniques gave me instant relief. I can actually sleep better because of you guys. Thank you so much

Scitica gang due to COVID isolation and sitting represent

You guys are doing a great job..god bless you both.. I like the way you explain things step by step with dedication and so much patience.. thank you again...

I go right to your channel whenever I have questions on anything to do with the body!!!! You guys are awesome!

Those "zero gravity" type of folding recliner chairs helps bring relief to my neck and back pain. I keep one next to my bed to use before lying down and for any episodes I may have during the night.

Man just 5 seconds on the driving part at the end that’s the part I needed the most guys come on now

I had this last 4 months ago.. it went away and now its back .. and now i have to watch this again. Im 22 and i was a bit relieved that im not the only one having these issues at this age. The first time i watched these was a couple of old folks talking about their sciatica but now there are some of my age too.

thank you so much for your valuable advices, I have a very severe disc bulge and it has been 5 months since and now I doing better. walking has been really helpful as an excercise for me and I have been walking 7-8 km daily from the past 1 1/2months apart from other excercises.

Got much relief within a few days after watching the videos.

Thank you for all your help over the years.

I love you cool guys. It’s almost 3 in the morning trying to sleep and figure out how to sleep with lumbar bulge disc😩💤 but I can you two entertain but I also appreciate how thorough y’all! You are great doctors which are to find these days imo. Hoping to buy the wedge for now do pillows. Thanks for sharing your knowledge 🌿

Reading those comments made me realize how lucky 🍀 l was... Now that I do have to deal with hernias and extreme back pain, I am grateful for all the free information on RU-vid. Just gotta do the work and study hard so I can learn how to heal myself. ✌️

🖤Love these guys, literal life savers! Can't praise them enough 🥺

I'm 27years old from Philippines and thanks God I found you both. I already subscribed and hit the notifications so that im updated. I have this kind of problem, when I'm sitting it hurts a lot and made me cry it's the same with standing up so I need what is the proper need to do

Bill and Brad, the wedge makes such a difference because it puts the pelvis in a neutral position because it rolls it flat. Therefore there is less pressure on the sacrum and other associated pain. Also, I have used a lumbar roll since April 1993. I had a severe accident in 90. I have been doing PT exercises 2x a day for most of that time. I had severe shooting pain for 4 years. Chiropractic helped but PT made a bigger did.

Been in PT for various things for the last 3 years- but this year I have 2 herniated discs. My back was getting better and now it's worse- and I have noticed some exercises from other videos you guys have done that I probably shouldn't have been doing so I started to do what you all recommend. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU. I get most my relief when my back is taped but I'm working hard with exercises to be 110% again eventually so I can go back to doing things I love like the gym and running. The way you two communicate reminds me of the moose from Brother Bear haha love it.

I love you guys! You're my go to for pain management advice. I wish you lived in Hood River, OR! Thanks so much for all your videos.

That roll on the side trick is amazing thank you

Awesome presentation. Thank you gentlemen.

I'm talking therapy right now for sciatica.I went to the ER two time.The pain is not a joke.I couldn't sleep,walk and sit.

These tips are very good. But in my wife's case the MRI shows disc bulges with nerves are entrapped so the stretch won't go past the block. She stretches before bedtime. She has a cooler with ice packs by the bed for spasms. She uses a microwave hot disc next to my back which is in a side position while sleeping. She gets up every 3 hours due to pain and walks around and take meds if needed. She is getting medical marijuana to try to get off Opioids. During the day She takes extra strength Tylenol and 2 baby aspirin daily which helps. Walking compresses the spine so try to use a walking stick or shopping cart to lean on. if she start having problems in the bed she goes to the firm recliner which takes the pressure off the disk. It takes 1-12 months for these nerves to calm down so hang in there.

you guys are great. I'm so glad I found your channel. I've had some bad sciatica pain for 2 weeks now and already this is working better than all the other things I've tried. thank you for making these videos!💜

Thxs God, as I have slipped into your video. Iam in lower back pain since 8 mons and diagnosed last week disc herination

Thanks from heart.

Thank you so much for all your tolls to make us better.

Love these guys

Wow, I've been using the footrest in my car by instinct. Thankfully I only have mild pain or discomfort. Also, nobody talks about this, but schools need to start addressing posture and natural movement patterns. I've been sitting 6 hours a day for 15 years in sub-par school chairs, you can't even rock back (another instinct to better support the spine), cause the teachers don't let you, and now I have a herniated disc at 22. Fantastic.

Thabk you for showing me the toe pull up trick it helped to identify the rediculous pain I feel after work or sitting all day

I like how they talk about making the leg wedge an exemption and Brad’s just there being comfy.

The little Walmart Mainstay travel pillows work great for lumbar support.

I'm 23 and I'm also a former Lyft driver. I spent a lot of nights sleeping in my car and worked for about a year just driving and sitting down constantly. Now I gotta deal with this nerve pain and it frustrates me that I didn't take care of myself any better. I hope this pain goes away cause man it has changed my life

You wanna take a nap? Ha!ha! ... Can I get a pillow, Bob, I want to get comfortable... The way you two talk to each other makes me smile. You both are interesting, smart, down to earth, and jokesters. Never stop being a team.

Yeah 36 here I already have sciatic and periformis muscle issues pushing on the nerves. It’s absolutely debilitating and excruciating

It's like i am watching a flinstones medical episode (fred and barney talking) everytime i watch these two awesome uncles/fathers.

At age 19 (1970) I got a low back injury and was miserable for over a month. Right away, I was using a chair in bed to sleep. I placed the back of the chair on the mattress. This meaning my hips and legs were elevated. So I was laying on my back but "Sitting" in a chair. It gave me some restful nights after which I slowly improved. I had numerous back incidents for the next 20 years but they tapered off in time and duration, but were never predictable. Driving an automobile is the most damming activity for a bad back, especially if the OEM seat is lousy. I only went to a chiro once in all those years. Since 1990, I have been OK but still get a stiff lower back here and there.

Comment on your bad leg, good leg with the Cane: I walked to the grocery, bought a 6 pack and walked back home, my left hip had pain, so I carried the bag with the six pack on my good side. The pain increased on the bad, left side, when I put the load on the bad side, the pain was better, doesn't make sense, but that is the result, and in repeated every time I did it. With the load on the good side, bad side hurt, put the load on the bad side, felt better. Never varied, when repeated and always predictable. Don't know how that relates to use of a Cane, except that it is not logical, but we don't know how non symmetrical loads change and contort the spine and all of the connecting parts. That was a couple years ago and was not a big deal, it has developed into a big deal now and I am progressing well. It has been a long, unexpectedly long healing process. Condition occurred overnight, was debilitating, used crutches from September 25, 2017 through Christmas day. Then limped around until a few weeks ago. Jan 11 2018, RMI confirmed damaged disk between L4 and L5. I have always been an aggressive guy on workouts, but trying to walk through this was a definite mistake. Just thought your comments on the Cane were interesting, in that they compared to my observations. Thanks........

Im 24 and have a large herniated disc for 2 months now i was not that bad but i fell about 2 or 3 times since i blew my back and 2 months ago and i can still walk not like your average daily walk but still can walk,shower, and go to the bathroom alone i start PT next week but my symptoms were my right leg was numb from the back of my thigh to the bottom of my foot and i my 3 pinky toes were numb only can feel my big toe and my left leg would have some pain on the outer thigh and ankle only but no numbness...i did 2 sessions of acupuncture and now i can move and feel my 2 pinky toes still a bit tingling but big diffrence from before the 2 sessions so im kinda getting more hope that i am in progress !! Now just exercise and pray and we will all get past this!

Nice tie Brad!👍 Thanks again guys!

Thanks for all of the tips

Thank you

A really good recliner chair is my best answer to getting a good night's sleep. Can't sleep in a regular any longer.

I’ve been dealing with sciatica and bulging disc for 5 years now and it’s only getting worse!!!! It’s now getting harder to walk and even just stand! In the beginning, these suggestions worked for me. But now, not so much. Would you suggest surgery for relief?? I just want to be able to get some form of living back!!😢 Rae❤️

One thing you don't mention in your videos about sciatica is about those of us who sleep on our stomach. Is that good or bad and do you have any tips for those who sleep on their stomach?

I have chronic pain, sometimes bad sometimes light from 3 heniated discs one very severe 25 years ago. I find that even the slightest pressure on my back intensifies the pain so that I have to tack strong pain killers. Every body is different so I suppose the roll under ones back would be beneficial for some people

Thank you so much guys. I badly needed this tips

It’s been a hell of a day sarks, I’m just praying I’m able to get out of bed in the morning 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

Thank you so much for the feet under the pillow suggestion!

With great respect from Azerbaijan

I have been watching like a thousand videos on RU-vid related to disc hernation and ciática problems. Trying everything. Good information. I guess getting better takes months?

Dealing with sciatica at the moment. My biggest advice to anyone who experiences an incident where they’ve hurt their lower back is to go get seen immediately. Do not wait and sit around just icing it and laying in bed. If you let the muscles and nerves stiffen up, it’ll be more difficult to get back to normal.

Thank you! a cylinder pillow was a G-d send! No leg nerve pain after a nights sleep (I did also take 600 mg ipupropen). Some twinging started in the am when sitting though.

LOL..."We'll get that speech therapist!" You guys are a hoot! Thanks and I love your channel.❤❤❤

Great video guys thanks a lot

Just so you guys know, that spot for your left foot in car/truck is called a "Dead pedal". Thanks for the videos.

i often find that i fall asleep on my painful side. for some reason its the only side i can lay on. i almost always wake up on my back with my feet on the bed and my knees bent though. ive been dealing with a herniated disc and 2 bulged discs in my lumbar for years. sept 2021 is when i really reinjured that area, and i have not been able to recover from it. every day is just so much pain. seems like nothing i do is making it better. its just either maintaining, or slowly getting worse. i tried chiro, yoga, deep tissue massage, and 2 different physios. i couldnt do the exercises the physio guys wanted without increased pain. the last physio i saw specialized in lumbar specific sports injuries, and he gave up on me after a week because i couldnt do the single exercise he wanted me to do. it made my legs numb for 6 days. my doctor, and the head spinal surgeon in my area both said my back is fine, and there's nothing wrong with it, but the doctor who first reviewed my ct scan noted that i have a herniated L5 that is pressing on the nerve pack in my spine. the head surgeon dismissed those findings, and wrote in his report that there were no issues. his report, and my doctor's report supporting his report totally screwed me out of any help i was eligible for. i fought an insurance company for 9 months to get a settlement, and it was less than half of the amount i would have made if i had been able to work. despite my doctor agreeing with the head surgeon, he was totally fine to try a plethora of drugs and steroid injections for pain relief though... he gave me 3 shots in 4 months into my sacrum, and now (8 months later) my sacrum is one of the most painful spots in my back. i cant get a second opinion (without standing in a line at the walk in clinic for 6 hours) because there arent enough doctors in my area now (we went from 27 down to just 7 doctors), so i have basically been left to figure this out and fix it on my own. that is how i found your guys' videos in the first place. i ended up losing my job 7 months ago because i couldnt work anymore, and now im just struggling to get though each day with as little pain as i can. i wish i could just figure out what to do. so many professionals have told me conflicting things to do over the years. ive been told to avoid any pain (if it hurts, dont do it), ive been told that its going to hurt, and you just have to push a little to get past it, ive been told that theres nothing wrong with my back, and i just need to work out to get stronger so it doesnt hurt. i cant do anything without pain. i really hurt it again yesterday loading firewood into the boiler to heat the house. its something i have to do, and i spent the remainder of the day, and so far all day today in a 8/10 pain state. i can barely walk today. last night i laid in bed for 3 hours fighting anxiety because i thought i had seriously damaged the nerves in my back, and was concerned that it might be permanent. i cant deal with the amount of pain i am in for much longer... i need to find relief. its creeping beyond the point of what i can handle.

I’m thankful for this video , I’m seriously crying because of the pain and irritation.. I’ve always had a problem with my back it would hurt and recently I’ve began to have more problems I’ve done my research and I think I have herniated disc . I hate this I’m only 20

In pain did do surgery, do follow, 65 though retiring would be happier.

Dude, 64 been in the club over 25 yrs have good & bad days, all kinds things to factor in work strain ,wieght ,how you sleep..... but now there is all kind of rlief with You tube I wish i serched a long time but i just recently been doing the stretches & exercises, they hurt ar 1st then you get relief, hut you gotta do them, or youll think like i used to" guess this how it is for me, Pain 4 life, Take Care Everybody👊✌

Love these videos

Thanks for the information. It is really useful.

Quite helpful. Thank you.

I have sciatica from spinal stenosis!

Fantastic sir. Iam suffering pain i follow sir

Thanks for this really helped my sciatica😁

Thanks guys. Thanks to you i was able to sleep for 5 hours straight this night, with taking less morphine than usual.

27 now, first had lowerback pain earlier this year and this month i'm feeling this sciatic pain it gets worse when sitting or standing for too long, i did therapy 3 months ago it reduce back pain but didn't totally go away, will have another set of therapy this month or next month hope it helps. I'm doing warm compress lower back area everyday it kinda help to decrease pain. Had xray on lumbar area it appears ok, my doctor now suggested mri to further check. Will do it later this month

hate people with no pain, moving, laying, shifting over, lifting legs, moving ankles around...I want to see a therapist intentionally somehow acquire a herniated disc. an then make a video.. I want to hear 2,000 ouches being said just to stand or roll over. sweat an tears hitting the floor. buut that's just me...thanks for taking the time out of your day to make these video's

Thank you for posting your expertise and advice! I have been trying to get comfortable sleeping for some time now. I am going ti try the wedge pillow. I can’t sleep on my sides without it feeling like my hips are being crushed. I have a bulge between L5 & S1 and it really has affected my hips. I am working on strengthening as I am way over flexible due to my yoga practice and repeated movement. Thank you!

Thank you guys! Extremely helpful information!

I notice in most of your videos you say "pain", what if there is no pain? There is only numbness/tingling feeling. Are you all using these two as one in the same? I just want to make sure I can use these tips to help with the numbness. I have two herniated disc per MRI. Thanks in advance.

thank you guy's

best as always .

Really helpful

Is a bulge the same as a herniated disc? Does sitting is bad for a bulge on L5-S1? What NOT TO DO for this condition? Please make a video about this. 🙏

Thank you so much for all of the helpful videos!

Thanks Sir 🙏

What is you opinion on spinal decompression therapy? I had 2 bulged discs and one really bad herniated disc. Massive sciatica and loss of feeling in leg and foot. Spinal decompression therapy got me 98% pain free in 6 weeks.

I have to have a microdiscectomy (sp?) later this week (L5 S1.) What kind of exercises can I do AFTER surgery to help the healing process, and support my core and spine? A video about that would be super helpful.l when all the efforts of pt haven’t worked. 😞

I got it on both

Hi i'm 32 years old MRI photos was shown core tear in L4,L5 I have skoliosis my left leg is short and I can not stand on two legs Thanks

Hi how to deal with disc degeneration back

kindly advice what steps to be taken if you have disc bulgings causing pain to hip n legs

I've had this pain for 1.5 years and Im 22.. been misdiagnosed and disbelieved by doctors until now. They suspect its a herinated disc and I am praying I will.get the MRI I have been asking for. It hurts to stand, it hurts to sleep for too long, the pain is constant and standing is uncomfortable. I can't function without pain meds. Fortunately, movement helps.

Nice...I was looking for an excuse to pull my pimp cane out

I’ve been dealing with hip pain and back pain since I was 20 years old. I’m 26 now and I’m miserable cuz of this.. I used to be active, athletic and energetic.. Hopefully your videos help! Thank you for posting them! Is there a specific leg wedge you guys recommend from amazon? If so let me know please!

What is the best way to stand and work? Placement of your feet? Etc…