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What you may experience

• Pain travelling down one leg
• Tingling or burning along the leg
• Worse with prolonged sitting
• Relief when walking or lying flat

Lifestyle factors that may contribute

These are common contributors, not a diagnosis. Which apply to you — and whether something else is going on — is what the assessment establishes.

• Disc changes with age
• Prolonged sitting
• Weak core stability
• Tight gluteal and piriformis muscles
• Sudden lifting

When an assessment helps

Most people manage this on their own for a long time before asking anyone. An assessment is worth booking when any of these are true.

• It has lasted more than a few weeks, or keeps returning
• It is changing what you do — how you sit, sleep, work or exercise
• You have tried the obvious things and they have not held
• You are not sure whether it is serious, and would rather someone looked

An assessment is not a commitment to treatment. If we cannot help, we say so and you pay for the assessment only.

How we approach it

We confirm the pattern first. Where there is no neurological red flag, treatment combines nerve mobilisation, soft tissue release and progressive core work.