(lively guitar music) – Hi everyone, welcome back to Dr. Ho's
healthy living vlog. We actually have Dr.
Ho here with us today, hi, Dr. Ho.
– Hi Kathe, hi everyone. – Now Dr. Ho's here to answer
a very important question we get a lot from everyone out there. What is sciatica? – Sciatica is back pain, that spreads to your hip and to your leg. It could be a numbing
pain, a burning pain, and even like a stabbing pain. It can be disabling. Now, sciatica is caused by tight muscles in your back and in your pelvis. In order to get relief,
we have to reeducate the alignment of your lower back with the relaxed back
muscle and the hip muscle and we have to promote better circulation of the sciatic nerve. Now you may wonder, what
else can cause sciatica? You could have a herniated disc, in that case we have to do decompression, or if you're sitting wrong we have to teach you how to sit right. – Okay so, is that why so many
people suffer from sciatica, because we're sitting wrong? – Sitting can cause poor
posture, tight muscle, deterioration of the disc,
which can cause back pain and numbing pain in your leg. Absolutely, we have to
teach you how to sit right. – Okay, so you're gonna show
us right now how to sit right? – Absolutely, follow us. One of the best way to relieve
your back pain and sciatica is to use my pain therapy device. This device will output
over 300 different types of pain relieving wave. And what it does, it relaxes the muscle and improve the circulation
and relieve the pain. By putting the big patch
here, in the low back, help to relieve your low back pain. Hold this for me please, Kathe, thank you. By putting the big patch here
on the back of your buttock, and the back of your leg, will help to relieve that numbing,
shooting pain in your leg. By using both together on a regular basis, your back and your leg will feel great. – So Dr. Ho, I'm using the
tense machine on my back, but I find that I get a
numbing pain in my leg when I sit for a long time, is there something else I can be doing? – Absolutely, you know when you sit, it can cause back pain
because you can slouch. Now I highly recommend you
use my perfect back rest and the attached cushion
on your office chair and even in your car. Now by sitting against this, it help to realign your lower back spine and the rest of your posture. By doing that, we take
pressure off the disc, we take pressure off your
joint, and most important, we help to relax the muscle
to relieve your back pain and that numbing pain in your leg. Because when you don't sit right, you put pressure on that disc, you put pressure on the nerve, and you can get serious pain. Now we use it together tense
unit, that is the best. – Okay, so Dr. Ho, this is
the same perfect back rest that was just on the chair
but we're on the ground now, can we use this on the ground? – The perfect back rest
is the perfect tool to realign your spine,
to reshape your spine so if you use this every day, you could be a spine very healthy, help to relieve back pain,
and sciatic pain too. Now go ahead and use it. Now first of all, yeah, pull
that against your buttock, and just go ahead and lean right back, go lay right down, and feel
it reshaping your lower back. – Oh, wow!
– What's– (laughs) – Yeah there's like a lot of support there that I'm not used to when I lie down. – Exactly, now, when you sit,
your spine, your low back, becomes too straight, by
putting a back rest here, I'm actually reshaping the low back to restore the curvature which reduce the pressure in the disc,
reduce the back pain, and especially for a herniated disc, reduces sciatic pain down the leg. So you're gonna love to do this every day. It just keeps your spine nice and healthy. – Dr. Ho, thank you so
much for teaching us about what sciatica is,
how to relieve that pain, and how to just kind of sit properly so we're not constantly in pain. Any kind of last words of
advice for everyone out there? – Well my mission in life is
to help you relieve your pain so you can live a better life, a more active and healthy
life, with less pain. So, look after yourself, please. – That's great advice. Alright, we'll see
everyone next time, bye. (lively guitar music)