Bulging disc and sciatica

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Herniated disc here. We should start a club.

It does curtail biking at least in the short term - the flexion on the spine is really not what you need right now.

Flexion is only bad if someone has a posterior disc bulge, and only 60% of back pain is caused by posterior disc bulges.

There is no such thing as "McKenzie exercises" because there is no one single "McKenzie" approach to joint derangement.

One person's corrective motion is another person's re-derangement motion.

Berkeley - if you've been doing something for months with no lasting results, then it is the wrong thing. Whoever gave you those "McKenzie exercises" either didn't know what they were doing, or hasn't heard from you how they are working and been able to modify them to get you the correct motion to push your unique and particular bulge back into place. (I'm assuming you are doing the motion 10 times every 2 hours, avoiding your deranging direction, correcting your posture, engaging your core at all times, and have not progressed)

People aren't cookie-cutter xerox copies of each other, and neither are painful backs, and neither are corrective motions.