Six
weeks ago I received a 48 years old woman who suffered from sharp pain in lower
back, buttocks area, including a high intensity irradiation pain to right lower
extremity for the last seven months.
Actually
she had sciatica condition since the age of sixteen. According to her these
pains of some intensity were constant. At least, once a year she had
episodes of very sharp pain, that disabled her for few weeks.
All
possible tests were done, including repeated MRIs. In the age of 36 MRI shows
4mm disc bulging on L4/L5 level. This time she have gotten a terrible attack
for seven months and couldn't function at all, consuming lots of pain killers,
undergoing three epidural injections, during six physical therapy procedures,
including exercise, the condition have aggravated to the point
of being not able to function at all.
Listening
to her, I was pondering that piriformis muscle syndrome often is the
main cause of sciatic nerve neuralgia, and other related
syndromes. So I planned to investigate the presence of piriformis muscle
syndrome and then apply the piriformis muscle syndrome protocol since it is
very effective in most difficult cases of sciatic nerve neuralgia.
I
started by carefully palpating all areas of lower back, buttocks and
extremities and have discovered much fascia and muscle tension as well as many
trigger points practically everywhere in these regions, but especially
within quadrates lumbarum, gluteal muscles group and
hamstring.
Having
been aware of similar cases, first few treatments a therapist should advance
slowly, expecting to palpate additional abnormalities within soft tissue.
Considering the long history of her disorder and the fact that the
exercise programs significantly aggravated her condition, I suspected that she
was born with an unusual condition where sciatic nerve fibers intergrew through
fibers of piriformis muscle. Due to chronic inflammatory
conditions, people develop region adhesions, especially within neighboring
muscles and other soft tissues. With age the condition gets much worse
exacerbated by soft tissue calcifications.
During
my career I have treated people with this condition. So I carefully
went ahead, following the piriformis muscle syndrome protocol. I
was extra careful while addressing buttocks and shifting gluteal muscles since
my goal was to transmit pressure to piriformis muscle.
Because
of the intergrowth of sciatic nerve fibers in the fibers of piriformis
muscle and neighboring soft tissues, in addition to normalization of
aforementioned muscles resting tone, reduction of fascia tension and
elimination of all trigger points within region, the main goal of the treatment
was to carefully address all adhesions.
Again
one has to be very careful tackling this problem and progress slowly. Otherwise
it would be easy to significantly aggravate the condition, causing the client
additional pain and sufferings. By the way, this is why cases
of sciatic nerve neuralgia/piriformis muscle syndrome, where sciatic nerve
fibers intergrew through fibers of piriformis muscle. take many
more treatments, then just usual cases.
Usually
in case of piriphormis muscle syndrome improvements are evident in a frame of
five treatment. Yet in aforementioned case of intergrowth the progress
comes even slower. My professor Dembo believed that massage therapists doesn’t
necessary have to be very strong , but sensitive. His view is especially applicable in this case.
Considering
that my client was unlucky enough to be born with the aforementioned
intergrowth condition, her timing appearing in my office was perfect.
I
just finalized development of silicone jars massage techniques, which proved to
be very powerful but gentle in case of adhesions elimination. So I, naturally,
have proposed my client to try applying this technique for her condition.
It
so happened that her husband, who is a medical doctor, asked me to demonstrate
this technique on him. After being subjected to silicone jars techniques,
he come to the conclusion that these techniques are safe, effective and
especially was impressed with my approach to introductory part, where I
activated pain gate control. In our collaborative opinion the worst
case scenario was that application of these techniques could do nothing.
As for my client, she admitted that had nothing to lose since she already
scheduled a surgery.
After
first gentle application of silicone jars techniques, she reported a relief
in first time during the last seven months. For the three days she
received treatment while I gradually increased suction. She improved to
the point of coming back to normal life and having no pain. In total I
have provided sixteen treatments. The surgery was canceled.
In
two weeks I recommended to come back for some additional treatments even
if she was free of pain. Of course I asked her to be very careful in all
functional activities, avoiding challenging the improvements and proposed her
the home program.
By
the way, the surgery would have done her nothing good but to add suffering.
In her case changes within L/spine didn't play the main role in
terrible clinical picture she had suffered all her life.
From MedicalMassage–edu.com, LLC support team.
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