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A pulling, burning, or electric sensation traveling from your lower back through your glutes and down your leg: sciatica can completely derail your daily life. At our practice in Zurich, we treat the root cause of sciatic pain using Liebscher & Bracht pain therapy combined with Winback Tecar deep heat, which reaches the deep gluteal muscles where the nerve is most often compressed.
Sciatica is typically characterized by radiating pain: from the lower back through the glutes to the back or side of the thigh, sometimes reaching the calf and foot. This is often accompanied by tingling or burning sensations, with pain worsening when sitting, standing up, or at night. Frequently, the cause is not a herniated disc, but rather tension in the deep gluteal muscles that irritates the nerve—a condition known as piriformis syndrome.
If you experience paralysis, increasing numbness, or bladder and bowel dysfunction, you must seek immediate medical attention.
The sciatic nerve runs from the lower back through the glutes and down to the foot, passing through several muscular bottlenecks along the way. Prolonged sitting shortens the hip flexors and causes the gluteal muscles to tighten; the piriformis muscle and surrounding fascia become chronically tense and can mechanically irritate the nerve.
Even if a herniated disc is involved, the protective tension in the back and gluteal muscles usually intensifies the pain significantly. In both cases, the principle remains the same: when muscular and fascial tension is reduced, the nerve has room to breathe again, and the radiating pain subsides.
Using osteopressure, we treat the pressure points on the sacrum, pelvis, and glutes that are responsible for the excessive tension along the nerve path. Many patients feel the radiating pain in their leg begin to fade during the very first session.
The subsequent targeted stretches lengthen the hip flexors, glutes, and hamstrings, providing lasting relief for the nerve and preventing future sciatica flare-ups.
The deep gluteal muscles are difficult to reach from the outside—which is exactly where Winback Tecar therapy excels. Its radiofrequency deep heat relaxes the piriformis and surrounding muscles from within, boosts circulation in the irritated tissue, and calms nerve irritation—gently and without causing additional pressure pain.
The combination—doubly effective: Deep heat makes hardened deep muscles treatable, osteopressure lowers tension at the source, and the exercises keep the nerve free. This is how we break the cycle of sciatic pain at its root.
Heat, gentle movement, and changing positions provide short-term relief, while prolonged sitting usually makes it worse. Lasting relief comes from reducing tension in the glutes and lower back; often, the radiating pain begins to subside after just the first treatment.
It is impossible to distinguish between them with certainty from the outside, as the symptoms are very similar. During our assessment, we narrow down the cause; if we suspect neurological deficits, we will refer you for medical evaluation. Often, a tight gluteal muscle (piriformis syndrome) is the trigger.
Untreated, it often lasts for weeks with recurring flare-ups. With causal treatment and the right exercises, the recovery time is usually significantly shortened—and the likelihood of future attacks is reduced.
