subject: Sciatic Nerve Pain Relief Guide: Really Hot Sciatic Nerve Pain Relief [print this page] Sciatica is no joking matter, well you could try to make a joke about it but it wouldnt be very funny. This type of pain stretches from your lower back to the hamstring, the compression of certain nerves in your lower back causes the pain. Reasons for the compression of the nerves vary from as serious as a slipped disk to as simple as overexerted muscles. Sciatic nerve pain relief is never very complicated though; most of the time sciatica is not serious and can be relieved by something as simple as a hot water bottle.
It doesnt have to be really hot; the hot water bottle doesnt even need to be hot at all. For sciatic nerve pain relief you only need it to be warm. Otherwise, you would have to search the internet for treating burns, and we dont want that. Situate the bottle in the pained area to relax the muscles, and while the muscles dont hurt as much stretch them to relieve some pressure off the sciatic nerve.
Heat treatment may not work for everybody though, so you might want to try using an ice pack instead of a hot water bottle, or better yet, alternate the hot and cold exposure to the painful body part as this has been reported to work as well. Sciatic nerve pain relief, using heat, need to be applied twenty minutes at a time and done so again every two hours or when the pain resurfaces. Also, the treatment may have to carry on for 2 to 7 days depending on the amount of pain experienced.
