Sciatica | Trucker's Butt | General Back Pain | Back Spasms

1. Trauma- Accidents like automobile, bicycle, horses, etc.
2. Women- Pregnancy and childbirth.
3. Men- Compression from hour after hour of operating equipment.
4. Women and Men- Twisting while lifting loads. Often (usually) the worst pain producing injury comes from the little lifts, like picking up a tiny infant or a piece of paper.
5. The Big One- the most damaging to Sciatica, the lower back and the general back is: Bucket Seats

Bucket Seats are designed for the average person.

No One Is Average!

Your butt might be average but your hips are not average, or your lower back, or your mid back, or shoulders, or neck, or legs, or muscles, or bones, etc.

An ideal 'bucket' seat is:

a. A bench seat cut to available width, humped in the middle from side to side, allowing the tail bone to settle in the rear depression.

b. An upright back, well padded, humped in the middle from side to side at about the upper mid back to the lower upper back.

Remember: No average person, so designers need to allow a taller hump to fit most people.

c. No humps front to back on the seat.

d. No humps up and down on seat back.

These last two humps force gravity to cramp and compress your hips, sciatica nerve, legs, shoulders and ribcage. Your knees need to be slightly higher than your hip ball joints.

Do not Panic!

Most of you cannot control which seat you use at the office or while driving.

Yes, you can control the seat!

Take a piece of foam rubber, 2-inches to 4-inches thick, depending on your weight. Cut it to the width of the seat. Less than the width of the seat if your seat had those ridiculous leg lock front to back humps.

Cut a generous hole in the back edge for your tail bone to drop into.

Cover with sturdy fabric and put on some straps. Office chairs 'normally' have one narrow upright for the back of the seat. Trucks and delivery vans 'normally' have a very wide upright or very little space between the uprights adjust your straps accordingly.
If no one else uses your seat then you can leave the pad in place.

Do not mention your back, if necessary just tell your boss this reduces "dead butt'. You could phrase that nicer.

If your boss or company will not allow a pad, use a folded heavy bath towel. Tell them it is to absorb sweat. You can also roll up a small towel and place it ahead of your tail bone but behind your thigh muscles. If they will not allow this, roll up your jacket and put it across your seat ahead of your tail bone.

Men, if your woman cannot wrap her legs around your hips or grab your rear without causing you agony, your sex life stinks. If you even have a sex life.

Women, if you cannot move your hips without agony, you cannot enjoy your man. How long do you think he can put up with that?

Start looking for another job, if your boss or company will not allow any of these options. Do not quit, not until you have another position secured.

Make sure you also make and use pads for all of your vehicles and seats.

Note: Most people find the pad extremely comfortable immediately and forever and find that it reduces the pain and causes no further damage. Some people will use it very comfortably for a few hours then find they are getting sore. Keep using the pad! The muscles, bones and nerves are adjusting to a more correct position.

Remember: You can live with being sore for a few hours or days but pain and agony can last for days, months, years, sometimes until death.

6. The second biggest cause for Sciatica, Trucker's Butt and General Back Pain is: Wallets in the rear pocket.

If you couple a bulging wallet with a bucket seat you have nerve bruising and offside compression resulting in dislocation and agonizing pain.

Men (and women) put that wallet in a pouch on your belt, on one side or the other of your belly. Cleaning your wallet will help some but if you are sitting on a bucket seat even an empty wallet is too thick.

Nerve bruising can take a couple of weeks to completely heal. Use the pad with the hole in the back for your tail bone and move that wallet to your waist. You will experience instant relief.

Of course your partner will not be able to wrap her legs around your hips for a few more days but life will definitely improve.

7. The #3 biggest reason Sciatica, Trucker's Butt and General Back Pain is:

One leg is shorter than the other and/or your shoes are too tight.

Now you can get fitted with lifts or you can put a piece of ¼ inch thick leather under the heel that does NOT hurt. Duct tape it to the inner sole of your shoe.

Note: Just because your heel does not hurt does not mean your legs are the same length.

Best: Just let your legs be whatever length they are and wear Z-coil shoes or boots. The Z-coil springs will self adjust for the individual leg length and compression. You can buy them with heel covers to hide the Z-coil springs.

They cost around $200, but mine have lasted for 4 years of daily 14-18 hours hard use. They come in hard toed as well. Z-Coil

Nope I am not an affilate of Z-coil, but I use them and highly recommend them.

Try on and buy shoes at the end of your workday when your feet are
swollen. Always use a foot sizer and check the size of each foot. It is
common for one foot to be one-half of a size larger than the other foot. Try the shoes on and walk around in them before you buy them and always buy one-half size larger than you need.

If you insist on wearing a pair of tight shoes accept the consequences.

8. Constipation will cause Sciatica, Trucker's Butt and General Back Pain.

Easy with prescription and over the counter laxatives. They can cause heart attacks. If you can, spend 2 or 3 hours and give yourself 3 or 4 coffee, urine or water enemas. In that time you should be cleaned out enough to relieve the pain.

Note: No commercial enema preparations. Your colon in your body's main re-hydration center and you do not want to mainline a bunch of chemicals.

If you do not have the time or privacy take one heaping teaspoon of used coffee grounds and drink 8-10ounces of very warm water. This will work in about 12 to 16 hours in about a ½ hour time span.

1. A back rub by your most favorite person in the whole wide world.
2. Lotions, potions and oils.

If you are not going to work for several hours you can use one of the
commercial pain rubs,

But:

a. Most have un-needed and dangerous chemicals in them.
b. Most do not work or work for an hour or so and then rebound and cause pain.
c. The big one, They All Stink!
Use one of these rubs and your boss will know you are in pain.
Use olive oil, not blended olive oil or canola type oils! They make nerve gas out of those oils!

Olive oils only!

Take a small amount of olive oil and gently rub it on both sides of the spine.

Remember: Your back can be hurting on the left side but the injury is
probably on the right side of your spine, or vice-versa.

Rub the sore area with olive oil for 2 or 3 minutes and leave it alone. If you have to dress for work right away blot the spot with a dry paper towel to absorb any oil that has not moved by osmosis into your skin.

No tell tale stink and it works!

Most pain pills are extremely dangerous to ingest, even aspirin.

For general pain like migraines, hangovers and headaches:

Stand straight up; pull your tail bone to the front, like you are trying to stick it between your legs. Drink 8 to 10 ounces of room temperature good water.

Hold your position for 30 seconds after drinking the last of the water and then relax. In about seven minutes you will notice a significant reduction in pain.

That works for dehydration pain, but what about sciatica, trucker's butt and general back pain?

For any pain first do the re-hydration trick.

Note: Use good drinking water. No chemicals or poisons. Do not use distilled water, it is very de-hydrating.

Let us start with some facts.

Note: A fact is information that does not change no matter what the latest propaganda tries to make you believe.

1. Except for dehydration pain, immediate trauma pain and mental anguish all other pain comes from inflammation and infection.

2. Your body uses assumable calcium for pain. Your body gets assumable calcium from the food you eat and by leaching your bones for that calcium.

Do the words 'bone spurs' have meaning for you?

Bone spurs are drastic leach sites. Usually your body will leach assumable calcium from all of the bones, in a self-survival attempt to not weaken the body in one spot.

Forget buying calcium pills, most are not assumable calcium.

When you or your spouse fixes dinner put a bone on to boil, use the water to cook other foods in and/or drink it. The assumable calcium releases into the water during cooking/boiling.

If you think about it until 70 years ago we ate food cooked with the bones.

Do not panic! Yes I realize most of you do not cook.

Parsley contains the highest assumable calcium, potassium and other things known to us. Use the dried cooking parsley flakes. Do not use the pills most of them will pass undigested through your system. Do not use the teas or extracts they are too weak. Actually the teas and extracts will work if you want to spend the time waiting for them to work.

1. Parsley is available everywhere.
2. It is cheap!
3. It keeps for a long time.
4. Even Parsley grown commercially, not organically, will work.
5. It is a food, not a drug, it will not show up on a drug test.
6. It is not a controlled substance so you can carry it with you, in a truck, police car, your purse, etc.
7. Put it on your sandwiches (about a tablespoon per sandwich) and your boss will not know you are taking it!

Let us back up and include edema, water retention, unassumable calcium and other unassumable things that cause blockage and compressions as reasons for inflammation.

8. You control how you take the parsley and how often you take it.
9. Parsley is a food. Parsley will not drug you or make you sleepy.

For maximum effect:

1. Take Parsley flakes, one heaping tablespoon, put it in your mouth.
2. Do not swallow!
3. Sip a little water.
4. Hold the Parsley in your mouth.
5. Allow the juice to slide under your tongue.
6. The juice can enter the blood stream under your tongue instantly.
7. Sip a little more water.
8. Try to keep the parsley in your mouth for 90 seconds. This allows for the parsley to enter your blood stream in a direct 'stop the pain' manner.
9. Swallow.
10. Drink 8 to 10 ounces of room temperature water, to thin your blood, washout your mouth and throat and to re-hydrate.
Wait 15 to 20 minutes; you will notice a massive reduction of pain and inflammation.

Parsley is a food, you could take it every hour but you will not need to. The worse pain cases I have seen took parsley five times the first day then two or three times a day until the pain was totally gone.

Even when the pain is gone continue to take the parsley once a day, (you can put it on your food, do not cook it). Taking parsley will act like a highly assumable vitamin, mineral and trace elements immune booster. Your body will thank you.

To recap:
1. Reasons why I am sharing this information.
2. Causes of Sciatica, Trucker's Butt and General Back Pain.
3. How you can reduce, eliminate or elevate some of the causes of Sciatica, Trucker's Butt and General Back Pain.
4. Pain 'management' what works and what does not work in self-treatment.

Find a good chiropractor:

1. Probably quicker correction.
2. They are usually fairly cheap.
3. Tell them a false name, so that your medical information does not get back to your boss.

You have no options left and/or have reasons you must do this yourself.
Here goes:
#1 Use the pad.
#2 Move your wallet.
#3 Wear the Z-coil shoes or boots. Make sure your shoes are not to tight and are slightly larger than you need them. Use a lift.
#4 Even if you do not think you are constipated, clean out anyway.
#5 Use the olive oil rub.
#6 Use the Parsley to reduce or eliminate inflammation, infection, edema, water retention, pain and as an assumable multiple vitamin, mineral and trace element immune booster.
#7 Does your bed have any sags or bags in the mattress?
Put a piece of plywood, depending on your weight, one-inch thick under your mattress.
#8 You have done all of the above, life has improved but you are still sore and know your back is dislocated, and/or discs are compressed.

Note: Everyone is going to tell you to get down on the floor to do this or that.

Forget that! When you are suffering and sore getting down on the floor is next to impossible!

a. Put a piece of one-inch plywood under your mattress. If you sleep with someone and they object, cut the plywood to fit your side of the bed.

Note: Most truck sleepers are already firm enough.

b. Depending on your weight you need a ¾ to 1-inch thick piece of
plywood, 3 foot long x 18 to 24 inches wide.

This one is very important. This is your cheater to stay off of the floor.

c. Put the 3-foot plywood, up and down, long ways on your bed.
d. Take a small towel and roll it up. Squeeze it with your hand. You do not want the compressed roll to be any bigger around than your wrist. You will use this to support your neck.
e. You will need a kitchen timer or someone reliable to wake you up in 15- minutes.
f. You will need one very firm thick pillow or two big pillows that will stack on top of each other or a tightly rolled sleeping bag. Do the best that you can.

Remember: A child will need less height than an adult and a heavy adult will need a higher pile, due to the compression from their weight.

To begin:
a. Lay down on the board, put the towel roll under your neck and just lay there at least 30 seconds.
b. Keep your head still and your neck resting on the towel roll, do not press down, just rest. With your hands by your sides and your legs stretched out straight, stretch and wiggle.
Slowly, do this for at least 30 seconds.
c. Raise your knees and bring your feet up against your rear. Keep your head, neck and shoulders in one spot, do not press just stay put.
d. Use your front thigh muscles to raise your rear from the board. Hold for 1-minute. Without lowering your rear, stretch and wiggle. Do this for 1- minute. Gently.
e. Lower your rear and stretch out your legs. Rest for at least 30 seconds.
f. Put the large pillow, or stack of pillows, or the sleeping bag under your hips.

You do not want the tail bone to touch the bed, or board.

You want the tail bone at least 1-inch off of the bed, or board.

You are hyper-extending your back. Do this slowly and gently.

Make sure the towel roll is under your neck.
g. Relax for at least 30 seconds.
h. Stretch your legs and wiggle around a little.

You are lying there with your hips curved over something and your neck on the towel roll.
The first thing you will notice will be little pops and other aching places you did not even know you had.

i. Set your timer for 15-minutes and relax.

Usually the body will respond by shutting you down in 90 seconds, with deep hard snores, but do not allow anyone to disturb your during this 15- minutes.

Warning: You are hyper-extending your back. No longer than 15-minutes or you will end up with another backache which could last 10 or 15 minutes.

This hyper-extension is using gravity to stretch your vertebras/discs apart reversing in the extreme the decompression. This may even relocate dislocated vertebras/discs.

j. When the timer goes off roll, slowly to your side. Bend the leg next to the bed and keep the other leg straight. Keep your body straight and inline.
k. Rest for 5-minutes.
l. Remove the large pillow, board and use the neck towel roll for your neck support while sleeping.

Most people will find this hyper-extension trick 1, 2, or 3 nights in a row all they need to reset their backs. And may do this once a week and then once a month just so they do not suffer again.

Note: If you have been disabled and/or in pain for a while, be patient your body gets into the habit of being disabled.

Do everything above and have faith.

Do not abuse your newfound pain free body. Give yourself some time to strengthen and heal.

Okay, some of you are still not quite right in the hips.

Sorry you have to buy something called a Sacro-wedgy, http://www.sacrowedgy.com 1-800-737-9295 ext 12.

Note: I am not affiliated with them, but I have bought, used and given as gifts many of them.

It is a firm foam rubber triangle with a small knob to line up with your exit hole, a hollow for your tail bone and a small shelf for your lower back. It is about 7-inches long.

You line this thing up and lay down on it for 20 minutes allowing gravity to do the rest (use your board on your bed).

I have seen long time Sciatica suffers lay down on this thing, heard a pop and that was it. They are fine.

Most Sciatica suffers need at least 2 or 3 20-minute sessions to release the compression totally.

Some need 5 or 6 days of a session a day to totally release.

If you refuse to use the pad you can sit in the sacro-wedgy and drive. It will re-adjust your back and reduce or eliminate further injury, although it may take days and many miles, it will help.

It is small enough to keep in case you or someone else needs it again.

Warning: For most people this is one of those 'it hurts so good' things. You will probably be sore for an hour or so after using it but sore is not pain.

Now we are coming down to the finish line.

Life is definitely better but some of you just know your back is still not
quite right in your mid back, upper back, shoulders and neck.

Sorry you have to buy something called Spine Worxs. A usually blue plastic structure with usually yellow knobs running along the top surface, the usual cost is around $30. http://www.spineworxs.com 901-876-3015 Mon-Friday 9am to 5pm.

I am not affiliated with them but I have bought, used and given away as gifts many of them.

Your spine fits in the trough between the knobs. You lie on it and relax for 15 to 20-minutes, letting gravity pull you into alignment.

Actually it is more comfortable than it looks. 1, 2, or 3 days, once a day should do it.

Some people find this contraption is one of those 'hurts so good' things.

Definitely keep it around for your use or for when someone else needs it.

Note: One day I slept wrong and through out my neck. I placed the end marked 'lower back' against my shoulders and rested my neck on the spine worxs for 15-minutes. It worked!

Warning: Eating Deadly Nightshades cause moderate to sever back pain, arthritis, high blood sugar and many neurological problems.

No potatoes.

Yes to sweet potatoes and yes to Yams.

But no potatoes!!!

Not mashed, fried, baked or hidden in foods as modified food starch or potato starch or starch, etc.

There are many advantages to doing all of these things yourself:
1. No more pain.
2. Most are no cost or one small cost for lifetimes of use.
3. Your boss will not find out!