11/05/2025
Sciatica is one of the most misunderstood conditions out there. 🔥😫
Particularly when it comes to how to treat it and the expectations to have around it.
When you have a true sciatica, you’re immediately put on a timeline. The average time it takes for a sciatica to fully heal is around 10 months.
Now, that’s an average, so you can be on a much lower end of that…but for many people, it ends up being much longer due to unrealistic expectations and lack of education on how to stay active, safely during this time.
Nerves heal at a very specific rate, about 1mm per day, and there’s really not anything we can do to “speed that up.”
What we CAN do, is make sure that we’re on the lower end of that timeline by:
➡️ Staying active with exercises that are conducive to recovery
➡️ Managing activity increases with realistic expectations (so that we don’t get in a boom or bust cycle of exercise)
➡️ Sleep well
➡️ Make small changes to normal activities of daily living so that we can still live our lives, but with some tools that help us stay on the right track
Sciatica is brutal. And for that reason, there are a lot of clinics that promise big results, fast.
Things like decompression, laser, “adhesion release”, and yes…surgery.
If you don’t have:
➡️ Major strength loss on the side of the sciatica,
➡️ Muscle atrophy on the same side (i.e. decreased muscle mass), or
➡️ Symptoms that intensify in both level of pain and area of pain throughout the day…
then you’re likely not a good surgical candidate. ‼️‼️
A plan that combines the right education, exercise programming, and lifestyle guidance is going to be the thing that solves it for good 👊
If you’re tired of trying to find a sciatica quick fix and finally want an actual solution, DM me “Sciatica” and let’s talk.