When Will You Get Pain Free?
We divided this into the 3 Phases Of Recovery. This will walk you through each phase and what is needed to be accomplished throughout your recovery process
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Phase 1
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Phase 2
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Phase 3
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Solve The Root Cause
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Sciatica pain stays centralized
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Pain and symptom free
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Identify and Treat All Underlying Risk Factors
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Increase hip and lumbar mobility
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Start advanced strengthening
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Sciatica and pain centralize and starts decreasing in as fast as 2 weeks
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Start light strengthening
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Return to your favorite activities
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Ween off of medications and symptoms stay reduced
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stay off of medications
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Return to sport programming
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If your a complex case and have had sciatica for months or even years…then it takes a little more time.
- Phase 1 may take 2-4 weeks, but you should know if treatment is working in the first 2 weeks! (yes, this is true. You should know if treatment is working in the first 2-4 sessions!)
- Phase 2 may take another 2-4 weeks and you need to make sure your off of medications and your symptoms and pain are gone.
- Phase 3 may take another 2-6 weeks depending on your goals and what you want to return too.
