Sciatica Point

How it is given: The Low Back
What it is used for: The Low Back

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The back that gets better, and the back that leaves the room today

Most backs mend; a handful must be sent, and the difference is not the pain

Every article since From Findings to a Plan has promised this section, and here it is, at the place in the wiki where it is most needed — because the low back is where the commonest complaint in a clinic and the most dangerous one arrive wearing the same clothes.

Start with the encouraging half, because it is true and should be said often. Most low backs get better. Most back pain is not caused by anything anybody can name; pictures of ordinary painless backs are full of alarming findings; and an ordinary acute back settles substantially within weeks whatever is done to it. That last fact deserves unusual honesty: it means any treatment given to an ordinary acute back will look excellent, and a therapist who does not know that will overestimate his own hands for thirty years.

Now the other half. A small number of backs are not ordinary, and the whole of the difference lies in a handful of findings that have nothing to do with how bad the pain is. (Figure 22.8)

Key teaching

The findings that end a session on the spot

These are not reasons to treat more gently. They are reasons to stop, today, and send.

Ask for them by name, in the flat voice you use to ask about sleep. Each has a name, and a therapist should be able to say the name.

1 — The saddle and the bladder. *Cauda equina.* Numbness in the seat, the inner thighs or around the back passage — the area that would touch a saddle. Urine that will not come, or comes without being asked. Loss of control of the bowel. Weakness in both legs, or shooting pain down both legs at once. Any of these, in a patient with back pain, is the bundle of nerves at the bottom of the spine being crushed: the same-day emergency of the low back. Hospital, today — not tomorrow, not after one session to see. What is lost by waiting is not recovered afterwards. This is why the Sciatica point instruction to treat only the affected leg matters twice over: pain down both legs means the saddle and bladder questions come before anything else.

2 — The old cancer, and the night. *Spread to the bone.* Back pain in a person who has had cancer of any kind, at any time. Pain that wakes them from sleep rather than being there when they wake. Pain that goes round the body in a band. Any new numbness, weakness or change in the way they walk. Bone is where several common cancers travel, and the spine is the commonest bone they travel to. A new back pain with that history is a picture, not a treatment — and with a new neurological sign it is urgent in hours. Ask every patient once whether they have ever been treated for a cancer, at intake, on paper.

3 — The bone that may already be broken. *Fracture.* A fall, even a small one. A sudden severe pain that arrived in one moment and can be dated to the hour. A woman past the menopause, a frail elder, anybody on long-term steroids, anybody who has broken a bone before from a trivial knock. These are backs in which bone gives way under a force a young spine would not notice. A suspected fracture is an X-ray question and a doctor's question, asked before the foot is used, not after. Everything in this article that names a fracture is given to somebody whose fracture is already known about and being looked after.

4 — The fever. *Infection in the spine.* Severe back pain that does not let up at all, with fever, sweats or shaking. Recent injection into the back. Anybody who injects drugs. Tuberculosis anywhere in the body or in the household. Infection can settle in a disc or the space around the cord, and it is not a slow problem. Fever plus a spine that hurts all the time is a hospital finding.

5 — The leg that is hot, swollen and tender. *A clot.* Not a back finding, but it belongs here because every treatment in the second half of this article loads a calf or a thigh. One leg swollen, warm and sore, in somebody who has just had surgery, a long illness, a long journey or a pregnancy, is a clot until somebody says otherwise. That limb is not rubbed, not walked on, not mobilised — it is sent.

And one that is not an emergency but changes everything: weight coming off without trying. Never call it the treatment working. Ask how much, over how long, and whether the clothes are looser — and send.

The finding	What it may be	What you do
Saddle numbness · new trouble passing or holding urine or motion · weakness or shooting pain in both legs	The nerve bundle at the base of the spine being crushed — cauda equina	Hospital today. Do not treat. Do not "try one session"
Back pain with any past cancer · pain that wakes from sleep · band-like pain · new weakness or changed walking	Spread of cancer to the spine	Same day. No pressure, no traction, no loading. Send with a note
Fall or sudden dated onset · past menopause · frail · long-term steroids · previous easy fracture	A broken vertebra	Picture first. No jerks, no body weight on the spine, until it is known
Severe unrelenting spinal pain with fever · recent spinal injection · injected drugs · tuberculosis in the house	Infection in the spine	Hospital. No spinal work at all
One leg hot, swollen, tender after surgery, illness, travel or pregnancy	A clot in the deep veins	Do not rub or move that limb. Send urgently
Weight falling off without trying	Anything that needs finding	Investigate before you treat. Never call it progress

THE METHOD, STEP BY STEP

The four questions, and what to do with the answer

Asked of every back, before a hand is laid on. Under a minute, and the most valuable minute in the session.

"Any numbness in the seat or between the legs — the part that touches a saddle?"

"Any change at all in passing urine or motion since this started — holding it, starting it, leaking?"

"Have you ever been treated for a cancer, of anything, at any time? And does this pain wake you at night?"

"Any fever? Any fall? Any new weakness, or has anyone said your walking has changed?"

If any answer is yes:

Stop the session. Do not give "just the gentle points". A session given is a delay caused.

Say why, plainly and without frightening them. "There are a few things I check for in every back. One of your answers is one I do not treat around. You need a doctor to look at this today, and I will write down what I found."

Write a note they can hand over — what they told you, what you found, what you did not do, and the date.

Name the timescale out loud. Today means today; patients hear "see a doctor" as "see a doctor sometime".

Do not discharge them from your care. Say you will treat when the door is open. A patient who feels dismissed goes to somebody who will not ask the questions.

And if every answer is no, you have an ordinary back — the commonest thing in the clinic, the most likely to get better, and the thing the rest of this article is written for.

TAKE CARE

Why a therapist of this therapy is more likely to miss these, not less

This must be said, and it is not a criticism of the method but a consequence of it. From Findings to a Plan teaches you to read four complaints as one picture. That habit is the strength of this therapy, and it is the exact habit that will one day absorb a dangerous symptom into a tidy story. "The leg weakness is the L5 finding." "The bladder trouble is the alkaline direction." "The weight loss is the digestion improving." Every one of those is the kind of sentence this wiki has trained you to make, and every one can be the last sentence somebody hears before a delay.

So the red-flag questions sit above the reasoning, not inside it. They are asked first, answered plainly, and never explained by the picture. A therapist who reliably sends a crushed nerve bundle, a spreading cancer or a broken vertebra to the right place on the right day has done more good in that minute than any technique in this wiki can do in a month.

A CASE FROM PRACTICE

The woman who thought it was the treatment working

A composite, assembled to teach the referral and the sentence said at the door.

Nirmala Deshpande · 57 · retired bank cashier · Nashik · came with low back pain and pain down the right leg for five months

What she said, on the twelfth day. "The leg pain is the same as always. But since two days I am having to sit long on the toilet to start urine. My daughter says it is because you people pressed my hip. I said no, it must be the treatment working — everything is loosening."

What had been happening. Eleven days of ordinary right-sided sciatic pain with ordinary findings and good progress — leg pain down from "cannot stand at the sink" to "only when I walk to the temple". Sciatica point on the right leg only; L5–S1 ghisai in its three stages; digestive work alongside. A textbook course, going well.

What was observed on the twelfth day. The therapist had a habit: the four questions asked every session on a back, not only at intake, because they take thirty seconds. That day answer two changed. Pressed to be specific, she said she had to wait and push to start, and twice that week had not quite reached the bathroom. Asked about the saddle area she thought, and said the toilet seat had felt "like it was not quite my own skin". And the left leg — which had never hurt — had begun to ache down the back that morning.

What was done. Nothing. The session was stopped before it began. She was told plainly and without drama that these were findings he did not treat around, that she needed a doctor that day, and that she was not being sent away for good. A note went with her: eleven days of treatment, what had improved, and the three new findings with their dates. Her daughter, who had blamed the treatment, was asked to take her — which turned an accusation into a job.

Which reports mattered. The scan she brought on day one, reporting a bulge at L5–S1, changed nothing on day one and changed nothing on day twelve; bulges are found in plenty of backs that do not hurt. What changed everything was three answers to three questions, and no report was needed to get them. She was operated on within thirty-six hours, and came back ten weeks later — walking, continent, and with the right leg still better than it had been in March.

What went wrong because something was withheld. She had noticed the change two days earlier and said nothing, having decided for herself that it was the treatment loosening things. That decision was made with the best will in the world and cost two days. Patients will explain away their own red flags using the reasoning you taught them. From then on the clinic's card carried the four questions printed at the top, and they were read out rather than remembered.

What this case teaches

Ask the four questions at every session on a back, not only at intake. The finding that matters is usually new.

A patient's explanation of her own symptom is not information; it is a theory. Get the symptom, then decide.

"The treatment is working" is the most dangerous sentence a satisfied patient can say — and nothing about it is dishonest, which is the problem.

Stopping is a treatment. Eleven days of good work was not wasted by the twelfth day being refused. It was protected by it.

Also explained in

Introduction The Low Back
Give the Sciatica point and the whole of Sciatica setting, toe by toe to the smallest one; and Bending forward, Standing point, Pelvic and Bindu, each with its own position, count and limit.
The heading this group carries The Low Back
Where the therapist stands Named in Astride the L5–S1 joint, weight on the palms through the chairs L5–S1 ghisai, stage 3 Prone Comfortably near the waist, full weight on the hands through the chairs Fracture point — th
BLOOD SUPPLY TO LEGS — the stance that faces the wrong way The Low Back
Blood Supply to Legs, Sciatica point, Pelvic and Bindu on one sheet — four different contacts on one prone body, with the stance, the pillows, the 90-second ceiling and the anchoring foot that makes the moving foot mean
BINDU POINT — the long diagonal The Low Back
Sciatica point: both big toes either side of L5, light pressure; then the heel, hip to heel, on the painful leg only — the figure shows both legs; the instruction does not — pressing or turning clockwise.
Questions students ask The Low Back
The Sciatica point figure shows both legs and my patient has pain in both legs.
The master list — every treatment point, by the position the patient is placed in The Shorthand
Code Full name / Hindi Where it is taught in this wiki Adr Adrenal Face Down Swt Sweat Face Down Back Arrow Back Arrow, or Blood supply to lungs Face Down H arrow — Face Down On the spine — Face Down Beside the spine — Face Down Round arrow —

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The back that gets better, and the back that leaves the room today

The findings that end a session on the spot

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