Hi there!
I’ll try to make long story short. I go back to three years ago where I started having intense pain to my sciatic nerve during pregnancy #1. After birth I could barely walk because of how intense it had become. I went through 1,5 years of chiropractic and physiotherapy and started feeling better. I was able to train again. Now I am 5 months through pregnancy #2 and the pain is getting more intense by the week again. I keep on going to chiro and now added osteopath. I keep training with light weights and biking, but I feel helpless as everyone tells me there ain’t much to do but to try to keep the pain at it’s lowest although it is still going to be inevitable. Any tips that might help? I wish to be able to walk after birth 
Thanks!
Sorry to hear you’re going through this, pregnancy is hard enough without added sciatica. However, this can definitely be managed well given that you have flexible strategies and a plan in place. Keeping up with training and biking is great, so keep that up. What does your treatment with the chiropractor and osteopath look like right now? What are some of the goals you are working on with them?
Thank you. At this point I go to the chiro one a month for a full column adjustment (used to go 3x/week, then 2x/week, then 1x/week, then 2x/month). He is just trying to keep the progress we did through the last year. Osteopath: aiming on the help of a sacro-iliaque belt to help during training and work (waitress), while treating manually. She wants to prepare my body for birth and try to minimize pain from the sciatic. She also encourages me to keep on training and doing the exercises recommended by the physiotherapist.
That’s helpful, thanks! Do you mind going into more detail about your weight training as well as the exercises that were recommended by the physiotherapist? You’ll likely benefit from active movement and strength training, given the changes your body is undergoing, but to avoid redundancy in my recommendations, I’m just interested in what you’re currently doing.
Hi,
Weight training: I work with weights lower than 20 pounds at this point of pregnancy. The exercises change everytime I go but usually revolves around KB swing, DB snatch, box jump, burpees, lunge with plate overhead, reverse lunge with plate overhead, squats, plank, wall ball, push-ups, biking (instead of running in my case). Sometimes some others exercises add on to this list but they don’t happen often.
physiotherapy: side squat with elastic band, lunge, hip raise, side kick bicycle, lying butt stretch, pressure with tennis ball on the upper side of the butt cheeks, one leg stair climbing.
This pretty much sums it up!
Thank you again
Hi,
Weight training: I work with weights lower than 20 pounds at this point of pregnancy. The exercises change everytime I go but usually revolves around KB swing, DB snatch, box jump, burpees, lunge with plate overhead, reverse lunge with plate overhead, squats, plank, wall ball, push-ups, biking (instead of running in my case). Sometimes some others exercises add on to this list but they don’t happen often.
physiotherapy: side squat with elastic band, lunge, hip raise, side kick bicycle, lying butt stretch, pressure with tennis ball on the upper side of the butt cheeks, one leg stair climbing.
This pretty much sums it up!
Thank you again