trapped nerve/hamstring pain/nerve gliding

[lurgan liar]

hy there,

Sorry i cant help with your question but i was just wondering what nerve glide exercises are?

ta

Well i'm no expert,i only found out about this yesterday but the way he explained it was ...

the nerve is incased within a sheath .... it can get stuck to this sheath due to either tight muscles, scar tissues forming etc etc and this can cause the tension and thus the tingling numbness and reffered pain.

so the idea is to gently glide the nerve back and forth to get it moving again inside the sheath ..... the thing is your not actually stretching the nerve as this is the very thing that is causing it to flare up ...but you are letting it glide through the sheath ...

i think the rationale behind it is that once it becomes loose again in the sheath the surrounding tight muscles and joints will free themselves almost instantaneously as a result ....

at least thats what i am hoping will happen ...