Are you aware that prolonged sitting is dangerous than smoking? If you are wondering how is that possible even, then guess what, sitting for long hours can do huge damage to your health than a cigarette can. Prolonged sitting is no less than a disease. Your sedentary lifestyle might be slowly poisoning your health without your awareness and the biggest damage it can do is giving you Sciatica.

The long-sitting job with your back slouched and eyes and mind engrossed in the computer can create havoc on your spine. 1 to 10% of the population most commonly in people age 25 to 45 years are reported to have Sciatica pain. So, is the sitting disease so bad? How does it trigger Sciatica? What can be done about it? Let’s understand all this.

Spine and Sciatica

When we sit, the weight of our entire upper body rests on the lower back area, increasing the compression in and on our discs and spinal column. The compression further increases the pressure against the nerve roots that make up our sciatic nerve, thus pinching it further, aggravating your Sciatica symptoms. Whether it be a bulge in the disc that is squeezed further or the compression around the joints that are irritated causing further irritation, the result is the same, more pain originating from the spinal column in the lower back that travels behind the hip joint, down the buttock and down the back of the leg to the foot.

Causes of Sciatica

Not necessarily a desk job is giving you sciatica nerve pain, anything that involves long sitting like being a couch potato or travelling seated for long hours are the major causes, others can be an injury to the sciatic nerve, pelvic fractures, trauma to the buttocks, old age, etc.

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