You probably did something the day before to over extend the muscle and then during the night when your body cooled down the back pain or sciatica became obvious.
Unless something is done to find and treat the underlying cause, like a muscle imbalance or heightened stress levels, or your body manages to compensate for the irritation, there will be no reason for the back pain or sciatica to go away naturally, especially if your lifestyle and posture continues to irritate it. The idea of resting until the pain goes away which a lot of doctors will recommend you do will do little to deal with the cause of the pain and so at some time in the future it is very likely to return.
There are times that pain can even stop you going to sleep or wake up you up early in the morning. It could also bother you for the entire day. This is because when you go to bed and sleep the blood, which is normally stored in your muscles during the day keeping them supple, drains to your organs and your muscles tighten up. That’s why you a bit feel stiff in the morning when you first wake up. When these muscles tighten and with no movement there is a lack of circulation and the aching is your body’s way of getting you up and moving to get the circulation going again.
You would probably experience the same pain or ache if you were to over-extend yourself during the day which would cause the muscles to fatigue and fail which is very common with the major back muscles.
When you are awake, and moving around normally, or up on your feet where your body mechanics are different, the problem muscle(s) are warmed up and thus looser and the irritation is minimal so you may not be particularly aware of it.
Things regularly recommended like massage or walking are the not the answer to back pain or sciatica because often the cause of the irritation that generates these pains is moving around with a tilted or rotated pelvis. This means badly aligned vertebrae in the lower lumbar or a tight shortened muscle pulling on the area.
Exercise such as walking often causes irritation and inflammation because of the unnatural movement it sets off in the sacrum and lower vertebrae pulling at the already tight muscles and ligaments in the lower back. Walking is only good so long as it doesn’t make you worse which happens normally where people don’t have a pelvic twist or tilt.
If walking irritates your back it is better to do exercises that don’t, ones that don’t involve excessive movement with gravity. My self treatment program will go into this further and includes the SLM Yoga and especially water exercises which are great to take the gravity factor out and strengthen your body with minimum movement.
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