Showing posts with label back pain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label back pain. Show all posts

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Occupational Sciatica

Ever note lower back pain that radiates down your leg after standing at a cath lab or operating room table?

Timothy Sanborn, MD, director of cardiology at our institution shared his experience with this occupational hazard in a recent editorial (pdf) from Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions and offers an interesting non-invasive remedy short of laminectomy: hyperextension of the lower back using McKenzie exercises (video).

It's helped him.

-Wes