If you're reading this, you're probably searching for answers about leg pain, numbness, or that burning sensation running down from your lower back. You've likely tried rest, stretching, maybe physio — and it keeps coming back. There's a reason for that.
What Sciatica Can Feel Like
- Pain from lower back or buttock running down the leg
- Burning, electrical, or stabbing sensations
- Numbness, tingling, or pins and needles in the calf or foot
- Tightness that feels like your hip is jammed or locked
- Pain that flares with sitting, driving, bending, or getting up
- A feeling that one leg is weak or doesn't fire properly
Why It Keeps Coming Back
Most sciatica treatments focus on where you feel the pain — the leg, the nerve, the disc. But the nerve doesn't become irritated for no reason. There's almost always an upstream structural issue: a pelvis that's rotated and staying there, a lumbar vertebra that's restricted, a deep hip muscle that's chronically guarding. Until that structural driver is found and corrected, the sciatic nerve will keep getting aggravated. That's why symptom-chasing never lasts.
My Approach
I don't guess. Every session starts with a full postural and movement assessment — mapping exactly where your body is compensating and why. I use precise osteopathic manual techniques to address the actual mechanical source: pelvic rotation, lumbar facet restrictions, sacroiliac dysfunction, piriformis tension, and anything else the assessment reveals. The goal isn't temporary relief — it's a real structural change that holds.
What to Expect in Your 90-Minute Session
Thorough Assessment
Full postural analysis, movement screening, and hands-on palpation to identify the root structural cause of your sciatica.
Targeted Hands-On Treatment
Precise osteopathic techniques applied to the actual structural drivers — not just chasing symptoms where you feel the pain.
Re-test and Confirm Change
We recheck the movements and findings from the start of the session to objectively confirm what has shifted during treatment.
Simple Plan to Make Results Stick
Targeted guidance — specific to your body — so the changes we made in the session have the best chance of becoming permanent.
⚠ When to Get Help Urgently
Seek immediate medical attention if you experience loss of bladder or bowel control, numbness in the groin or inner thighs (saddle anesthesia), or sudden severe weakness in both legs. These can be signs of cauda equina syndrome, which requires urgent care.