I don't care what terminology you use. My butt still hurts and the pain makes its way to my ankles. I do all the exercises and work out 3-4 times weekly. It hurts when I continually walk around a table or stand (part of my work). I have been to PT. The irritation has been going on for 4+ years. Doctors get hung up on terms. What I seek is results.

The sciatic nerve makes me feel like I want to take my leg off

I started pain in my butt very sharp .2ys on vibrating down mostly left side pins and needles . This came on after the AV covid never been well since . I know my body well as i am a ballet dancer . I do most of these exercises . Some days better than others ....??? I wish my life could get back to normal doctors usless. Love your platform it really helps .thankyou.

You forgot that tight muscles or lack of mobility in the myofascial parts are able to reduce the blood supply of the nerves (vasa privata). Not a Kompression of the nerves themselves but of the blood vessels that are doing the 'catering service' to the glia cells, so that the nutrition of the nerves is reduced. In this case you also can have tingling or pain at the backside of the leg. Pain at the side of the leg is rather a myofascial problem.

Everything aggravates the pain. I used to be really fit. I can’t seem to find any solution and can’t really seem to find a diagnosis.

Im having a very tough time, barely can move because of my pain in the butt and back of leg. Unable to even stand properly. Its been 3 days with painkillers but no improvements ! Thank you for sharing and best wishes to you 🙏

Thank you for sharing this video❣ It's almost a month that i'm suffering pain from my left buttock down to my left leg

Hi, I´ve actually that pain for almost 10 months, been to 4 doctors and NO one have taken that pain away. Stoped trainning. I´ll try this! Thxs

I used to walk more than a mile. Now, I can hardly walk less than 1000 steps due to pain in my right butt.

I believe i have piriformis syndrome. I tried a deep release with a soft ball and then tried to do some exercises afterwards and i couldn't do the exercises because of the pain.

I think i got this from sitting in a bad pasture

Thank you so much. I am tired of reading about pyriformis syndrome & it's exercises. I will definitely try doing these exercises. You really solved my querry .

Thanks , at 6.40 the glute streches really helped man.

Apart from pain in the glutes there are other neurological symptoms. While sitting pain hugely grows and gas incontinence due to sudden loss of muscles control appears (it is not mentioned by anyone but it is worse than any pain).

I give up. 25yrs of pain in the butt. Spent perhaps $2.5m and still no relief. Just now i am trying to live with it but this is very difficult.

I ruptured L5 and L6, I have shooting pain in my butt and down my left leg to my ankle. My Neurologist tells me its not Piriformis but I have 4 different Physicals Therapist who says it is.

I had sciatica in 2017. Not gonna forget it :) ! I did a lot of stretching and it is gone for 6-7 years now!

Wet and cold weather really works mine up! I get terrible thoracic and butt pain on left of body, neck pain, and lower back, often upper back.

I agree and studied this deeply, although the piriformid may be tight and those stretch exercises help. I believe the glut medius was the most affected area and some stenosis.

I feel so grateful that this channel exists. You both are so clear and your content is of utter most pertinence, backed up by articles, critically analysed. Thank you !

I'm going to see a doctor about this problem

More of these please! Awesome

I had that deep pain in the butt and other horrible, painful symptoms. So, I could no longer run for exercise. Walking was painful. I put on weight. I was in denial. The belt was long before on its last belt hole. I had trouble admitting to myself that I needed to start buying "extra-large" underwear. After I realized that the light clothes was causing me horrible extra pain in the hip and down the leg, and I started wearing larger size clothes, and now that deep pain in the butt has become quite rare.

So why do all the Orthopaedic surgeons do not acknowledge or recognise this condition ?? I have had this since an accident at work in 1996 disc problems have been ruled out

Appreciate the current research and visual aids showing different causes of pain. You guys are the best.

Super professionell, strukturiert und hilfreich! Danke!

What can be the reason for repeated spasms in that area? I get 10+ a day and it is not related to posture, it just comes out of the blue, even when I've not moved. I'm really fed up.

Thank you ….. you explain things so simply which makes it easier for us to understand xx

My friend you out did yourself on this video top notch my man 👍🏼

Thanks for the exercises but the more I exercise the more the pain increase. Both butts and legs , it's now eight months

I really want to THANK YOU and your channel for sharing such in depth information that I've frankly, not seen some of before, regarding this subject! EDUCATION is SO IMPORTANT when we're suffering from unresolved pain! If we're PROACTIVE in learning about our condition, we're more likely to help professionals HELP US! 🎉❤❤❤ I just wish you also would consider Nutritional imbalances that CAN & DO CONTRIBUTE to UNRESOLVED PAIN CONDITIONS.

I think this explains what my pain is. I know I need to exercise, but... old/lazy/weak/tired blah blah blah. Thank you for this. It explains a lot and I will try to spend more time walking. I've gone from thinking it was sciatica to piriformis syndrome and this sounds like the end of the line, the actual reason for my pain. I've been in tears a lot over the past months the pain is so intense/radiating to and fromthe top/bottom of my butt but never down the leg. Actually the top usually has be say it's the hip, and further below I was guessing the end of the piriformis. Hard to move in bed, that's when it hurts the most. Right side only. Only started a year ago which is why it's probably related to my now mostly sedentary lifestyle (loss of loved one).Taking some supplements and now sit with a cushion under the outside edge of that side of the butt (right) when sitting watching TV and while driving. Q: Could me getting a hernia in the right front side be cause for back pain? I haven't had hernia diagnosed as yet, but if I hold that area in when walking around, it seems to relieve butt pain for a while. Thanks for letting me share this crazy information and for you sharing this very informative video. -kate

Thank you very much. May i add smth. Acupuncture! When a pain-locus was settled you HAVE to ruin it. Your movements are very painful, and it will not diminish by itself unless you will diminish it with needles.

I am exercising few years but goting worse ann worse.

Actually numbers 1 and 2 are arguments that it IS piriformis syndrome. It only becomes sciatic nerve pain when the legs are affected. So, if your legs aren't affected, it can't possibly be sciatica. If the pain never leaves the buttock, a good way to test for piriformis to do the piriformis muscle stretches. It will be tender and stiff. I have arthritis in my low lumbar spine and I find that this is probably why I suffer with piriformis syndrome. Exercise does resolve it and if I did those exercises more frequently, I would probably stay under control. I also happen to have arthritis in that same hip. It's hard for me to know if the arthritis caused the piriformis syndrome or the piriformis syndrome caused the arthritis, or maybe they both ran tandem from the very start. I think the title of this video is misleading because a pain in the butt truly can be piriformis syndrome and also is not likely to be sciatica. In fact, I was told at one time that if the pain does not go past the knee, it may not be sciatica either. Of note, my job required prolonged sitting for roughly 45 years. I'm absolutely convinced that has a lot to do with why I have arthritis and piriformis syndrome.

Im going to opposite way, Ive been misdiagnosed with sciatica due to a lumbar fracture for years but I might have piriformis syndrome

Great examples of exercises...please pop round nd fix the chronic pain in my butt hip and leg!❤

excellent diagnosis ....is the most important in therapy....

So how does this go away or get better???? A pillow between the knees in bed really helps.

Started down my left leg with sciatica pain. Over time became worse and developed weakness in both legs, deep butt.pain , lower back pain and pain down both legs. Now in constant pain, and live on pain relief medication

guyz, I have officially cured my Sciatic nerve pain FOR GOOD, it was totally an accident, not intentional, i had this pain for about 4 weeks, I watched a lot of vids, and i did exercises, it helped for a while, but it keeps coming back a few hours later, and nothing seems to cure it! At the same time, i was going to the dentist for some teeth work, after fixing like 4 teeth, i had pain all day, so the dentist told me to take some antibiotic shot in the butt to ease the pain, anyways, i went to the pharmacy, and the dude there gave me the shot on the same side of the nerve pain, i immediately felt the shot like a small tough ball that is stuck in my butt, it lasted for 15 minutes, then it went away, immediately after that, the nerve pain disappeared, i could bend, stand, do whatever, there was no pain at all! yes ! just like magic, i don't know if these 2 are related, but definitely right after the shot i was cured, and now, a week later, i haven't felt a thing! maybe some real doctor can explain this, hopefully there is a scientific explanation to what happened.

I have a spinal cord inury at L2/L3. Trust me for 16 years ive dealt with Nerve compression as im addicted to working out. I have tried to strengthen certian muscles however nerve damage is just there and Ive had to accept this. Sitting is the worst thing I can do so I tend to walk more. Salt baths greatly help and I mean I OD on salts and use more than recommended. 😅. Thanks for this video.

It hurt when im sitting in the truck and driving long time

Keep spreading the good news and share the love towards others

I am a 65 year old female and was first diagnosed with myofascial syndrome until the pain had spread on both sides equally, back of neck downward to scapula to under and sides of my arms and my buttocks where you show this In your video. Now I have been diagnosed with Fibromyalgia since 2020. I am so afraid to stretch because it can make my symptoms worse the next day. I am wondering if PT would help me to ease in to stretching exercises to show me how to do it correctly? Thank you sir for your wonderful video!

Solutions please!

This makes since.

I have bilateral sciatica that goes down both legs to the foot and is real bad around my knees. I was just wondering if anyone else has this?

Could sitting in front of my computer using KZfaq every 14/24 possibly be a problem? I do get up to shower and eat. Hmm. I think I just diagnosed my butt pain. Going for a walk. PS Thanks for your caring video. It did help.

My pain is mostly in 1 and 8 but when I stand up after sitting it also hurts in 2, 3, 4, and 7 😩 Laying on my back or stomach is literally the ONLY relief. Going to try these workouts to see if any of it helps. Thanks for sharing 😊

I've been to a chiropractor first for some treatments. They have a stretching table. The pain moved from my back and left leg to the right buttocks and down the leg. Went to 1 PT guy but he didn't have an opening for 2 weeks. I went to a different PT. Both use stretching and massage. I can drive with little or no pain. The pain hit when I get out of the car.

I don't understand how training and thus extra contractions help muscles with knots in it. Shouldn't solution of the painful muscle knots and irritation of the nerve be the first thing before one starts the exercises? You state first lower everything that triggers the pain. I have done that. Then I started exercising but had to lower the intensity and later on stop altogether because it aggrevated the pain. It is a merry go round because when I start the exercises I have more pain the following day. What to do to get rid of the pain?

I have a terrible back, 5 disks in L2 thru S1. 4 laminectomies, laminotomies. I fell. Since then, 2 months ago, the pain is in my right iliac crest. (I'm an RN). Nobody knows or wants to know what it is. all say it's my back because my back is bad. I know my back pain, all on the left, this is on the right. NOT referred, not sciatic, Very localized deep in my right iliac crest. I fell on tile flat on my butt from sitting height. I'm being offered spinal cord stimulators and injections in my back, my SI joint but not one dr, of the two i've seen, have even touched my body. Have even looked at where I say I hurt. They look at my MRI and said "back." It's a new injury. Why can't I get help? Dont' inject me until what you can tell me where it is and what it is. I have CRPS of both legs so it's complicated but I can not just let drs be injecting my back where ever they want as they guess. The hip dr refused my referral because on MRI he is sure it's my back. I could have a fracture or my PT thinks I torn my gluteal muscle. Two months and last week I decided I needed to just stop life and go to bed. it's getting so much worse I can't bear weight on my leg anymore. I've had to stop PT and chiro as it's getting worse but feel so disrespected by drs. yes, lots of back pain - this is different and new! Thanks for this video. It's the first video anyone has pointed to the actual iliac crest. I know sciatica, this is not it. It's a lump in my butt like right where you would give an injection in my butt. Upper right quadrant. What can be done for a torn gluteal muscle. How can it be diagnosed. Do you have a video or can you make one????? Or respond. I fell. and I'm about to end my life because it feels over as I can't walk. And I walk with CRPS from the hips down, you know I have a high pain tolerance. I'm about to sui. Dr.s dont get it. I feel so disrespected. any thoughts. My life is over right now. and nobody cares but me.

Thank you for this video and knowledgeable content

Tb he descubierto dolor en la nalga a nivel de nervio ciatico, compresion dolorosa por herpes.

I got this and it travels down to behind of knee is this sciatica?

I don’t get pins and needles or anything, but my knee wants to “give out “. Which would that be? It’s only when I have the deep ache in my butt an thigh

my above-buttocks pain goes into lateral thighs and calves. Clam shells exercise with some resistance aggravates symptoms. MRI showed lumbar anatomical stenosis but with no nerve compression. Can I assume it is piriformis or gluteal muscles causing the problem then?

Its been 3days my left butt hurting ..sonetime i cant even walk . Even when i laugh its hurt.. today it happening 3-4 times that I can't even walk..when i put pressure on left leg to walk its hurt i cant sit i cant stand whenever its hurt..

Besides the pain in both glutes I also have pain on my hips all the way to my feet I really don’t know what to do because if I do something then another area got pain is the whole area hips, glutes and pelvic floor pain everywhere, cold and heat doesn’t helped either

So, I’ve been diagnosed with a unstable SI joint. How does that cause deep buttock pain?

Now I have shooting pain in my right butt and down my right leg after a fall. This might be due to Bursitis in my hip due to favoring my left leg that was damaged in the fall. An MGI tells me I did damage to my L3 and L4 this time.

I've had two MRIs and one x ray as a young athlete they say everything is remarkable but I have this terrible pain after exercising, specificly squats running lunging and biking. Pain under my buttock… I need to find out what's going on.

Great information, thank you!

Thank You

Can using zeolite, magnesium, turmeric reduce such pain?

I have this pain right now an have never before not been able to walk. I can’t bare weight on it because it hurts so bad in my calf an butt an hip area.. I don’t know what to do but cry. I’ve been in bed for 3 days.😢😢😢😢

I have pain in right glute when doing lockouts on sumo deadlifts

If this area is damaged, will there be swelling and pain?

Its called nerve tension. Its a burning pain you get when you put tension throughout the nerve the more tension the worst it gets....ts caused by scaring on the siatic nerve from disc bludges. it will only go away once you have the surgery to remove the disc thats hitting the siatic nerve Once its removed the nerve can start the process to heal which is years depending on how much and how bad the scar tissue on the nerve is... it goes away n cones back but will eventually stay. The longer you put off surgery the worst your final recovery will be in the long run.. Been there done that...

I had my 1st literal pain in the arse from a recent job due to heavy lifting.. made me very immobile and took about 3 weeks to go, its still niggling but i can walk much better.. worst injury ive had.

I watched many videos before finding this one that provides excellent detail and progressive exercises that I'm sure will help and even eliminate my pain. Thank you!

How do you make it go away

Thanks so much for sharing !

Grazie mille video molto chiaro.Tutti problemi che mi interessano e che non non ho mai risolto ho provato di tutto.

Mine happened a few hours after a Chiro adjustment, that included the hips, after a few hours of the adjustment felt the buttock pain and same pain radiating down down the back of both legs, wasn't sure is vagus nerve was involved. Not horribly painful but very noticeable. not sure if it will subside or if I need to go back to chiro. Never had sciatica issue before just lower back, and upper muscles in back from lifting or moving incorrectly.

Excellent presentation

Very helpful channel

Great Video..... Thank You❤❤❤

I have disc bulges and herniations, but no back pain… just butt pain and left leg weakness. .. does it mean it’s from my back?.. without back pain? Thanks

Good information,thank you so much ,God bless you. 👍

how often to do these exercises?

Yes I have pain in my butt and I can barely walk sometimes I do have arthritis so maybe it's that.

My pain starts at a point in the buttocks where the sciatic nerve would be under the piriformis and then shoots down the leg all the way down to the lower calf. So whether I have actual piriformis syndrome or not I do not know. It's not just the right buttock for me. It's down the leg for sure and it's reacting more when I have to bend etc or after sitting.

My pelvis is crooked on the left, and I also have a left leg that is significantly too short. I've been walking around with it for years and now more and more problems arise, my pelvis is becoming more and more crooked, my leg is somehow becoming shorter and shorter, very hard tension in my entire thigh and the whole Leg and foot. and super hard tension in the buttocks with pain. My entire left leg is externally rotated and also my foot. The ankle is also extremely tense and tight. Are there any good ways to get this under control again with targeted exercises? so that my pelvis is completely straight again and my leg is no longer too short? and the tension disappears?

I've had 3 back surgeries in past 2 and a half years, lamenectomy, then fusion of L4 and L5 8 weeks ago S1, still in terrible pain I don't think this guy is for me , also been to PT 4 times after each session couldn't get out of bed next 2 day's, I've done all of this and Narcotics nothing work's I have piriformis syndrome

Nice video , thanks

Thank you

The usual tests for piriformis syndrome can give a false negative. The reason is that flexing the hip (leg forward) causes the apex of greater trochater to rotate posteriorly. The apex of the greater trochanter is the location of the insertion of the piriformis muscle. Thus, flexing the hip relaxes the muscle which prevents the pain associated with tensioning it by internaly rotating the femur. A better test is extend the leg. This extension rotates the apex of the greater trochanter anteriorly, putting slight tension on the piriformis muscle. This alone may cause pain, but if not internal ration of the fenur, with the hip in extension, will.

Is the abductor/adductor machine at the gym good for this?

Thx a lot looking useful

SUPER HELPFULL!

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Hi. My nephew got an injection on his butt, his only 5 years old.., and since then his having trouble moving his leg, please what exercise can he do to release his leg muscles,. We already went to the hospital they said he only needs some exercise to solve it. ,🙏

I experienced the buttock pain for about 3 days and then it progressed into very intense sciatic pain that prevented me from even being able to sleep for about 4 days. With stretching and a foam roller, the sciatic pain gradually subsided, but here I am now, about 6 weeks from the initial injury and the deep gluteal pain is still here. Although I have progressed to dynamic stretching and band exercises, my flexibility is still limited and my balance is very off. I cannot run, jump, or do anything explosive. Is this piriformis syndrome?

Really appreciate your channel, helps staying up to date as a therapist. Thank you!

Расскажите о трохантерите и способах лечения .

I have painful hip to my foot severe pain unable to for than five months. Doctor's have suggested surgery do you think surgery is necessary? Please advice me. My pain are terrible. 😢

Your arms and chest look great. They add to your credibility. This program was just what i needed. Thx so much.

You say "first rule out Radicular syndrome"; but... patients look to therapy to keep them from having surgery. I go to a spine doctor and he says I need surgery; it is what he does. But as a patient I want to do the opposite of your instructions. I want to rule out all other reasons for my burning butt and leg first before going to sleep under surgery and that long recovery period.