Piriformis Inflamation, Sciatic pain and tight hips!

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#1

Hi there,

Does anyone have any suggestions for helping open up the piriformis to release sciatic pain… The only problem is that I have chronically tight hips due to shallow hip sockets and it seems to be componded by early degeneration(according to my chiropractor). Therefore stiff hips make it difficult to get fully into Eagle etc…

I’m a yoga teacher based in London, so if anyone could recommend an experienced yoga therapist that might be able to assist that would be great!!

Thanks in advance

Carl

#2

Dear Carl,

As I live in the US I do not know of anyone
especially in London. Have you googled:
[I]Yoga Therapy London
Yoga Therapy Piriformis[/I]…for help

If I were you: I would contact a Iyengar-style
yoga studio. They usually have yoga therapists
they can recommend or one that may be on staff.

Best with Blessings,
Nancy

#3

[quote=Carl 4;20758]Hi there,

Does anyone have any suggestions for helping open up the piriformis to release sciatic pain… The only problem is that I have chronically tight hips due to shallow hip sockets and it seems to be componded by early degeneration(according to my chiropractor). Therefore stiff hips make it difficult to get fully into Eagle etc…

I’m a yoga teacher based in London, so if anyone could recommend an experienced yoga therapist that might be able to assist that would be great!!

Thanks in advance

Carl[/quote]

Hello Carl, You can find certified Structural Yoga Therapist here on Mukunda’s site–those in the UK are listed near the bottom. Also, you can search this forum using for your key topics to find many recommendations by Mukunda, and others who are trained therapeutically, on these very topics. This may be a good start in your search.

*nichole

#4

Contact Drew Stallcop. He’s a certified Purna Yoga? teacher with 2,000 hours of training, including therapeutics. He can be easily googled.

#5

Hello. Have you ever heard of the psoas muscles? They hook onto your spine and travel around your pelvis to hook onto your thigh bones. Try stretching them. Maybe it’ll help you. I hope so. As soon as I post more comments, I can tell you the addy of my blog, where I have lots of info about this.

#6

Your could try the Yoga Biomedical Trust (director Robin Monro) at
http://www.yogatherapy.org/index.php

#7

See a yoga therapist as soon as you can but in the meantime try the needle, where you lay on your back, cross your legs,one ankle on the other knee, put one arm through the hole there and the other outside, clasp hands and gently pull the knee-ankle back, you will feel the periformis stretch on the ankle leg, and also give more time and focus to the corpse pose. I am no expert but I do have a double herniated disk that I am very successful at negating. This information was gleaned from a chiropractor and a yoga teacher on youtube ( 2 different people-same needle ) and my own experience with it, although I do a lot of other things including keeping the psoas muscle loose and the adducting insertion of the leg to the hip tight exercises i.e. squeezing in . I have learned the best thing is to see someone who’s trained and sees you. But in the mean time… Namaste