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🔙 Sciatic Nerve Glide

Gentle nerve mobilization to relieve sciatic symptoms.

BackBeginnerChair3 × 10

How to do the Sciatic Nerve Glide

  1. Sit upright in a chair
  2. Slowly straighten your affected leg out in front
  3. At the same time, look down (chin to chest)
  4. Then bend your knee back and look up
  5. Move slowly and rhythmically

Form tips

  • Don't push into pain
  • Should feel a gentle glide, not stretch

Muscles worked

Sciatic nerve mobility

When to be cautious

  • Acute severe radicular pain
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