I am excited to announce that as of February 2016, I will be joining ranks with the majority of my patients and becoming a mommy! For the past 6 months I have had the “pleasure” of experiencing that pregnancy roller coaster that everyone has been telling me about – the morning sickness, fatigue, crankiness, and general “ugh” feeling has prompted me to evaluate in a new and highly personal light all the advice and treatment I have given to my pregnant clients over the years, in a very good and healthy way! Through this new first-hand lens, I want to share some knowledge and research with you in a brief format, because it is often hard to sort through on the internet, and you won’t likley hear it from your doctor. I hope you find this helpful, and if you have any questions let me know – I guarantee you aren’t the only one wondering!

So, you have pain in your butt – it must be sciatica, right? So why aren’t those exercises you found online working? Well, “sciatica” has become a catch all term for pain in the buttock, but true sciatica is irritation of the sciatic nerve, and typically presents as pain or paresthesia from the buttock shooting down the back of the thigh and leg, along the path of the sciatic nerve. There are several other possible causes for your “pain in the butt,” which include sacroiliac joint irritation, lumbar joint irritation, lumbar disc pathology,