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Sciatica and Your Job: Should You Take Time Off?

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It is one of the first questions people ask and one of the hardest to answer well. Can I work with this? Should I be signed off? Will working make it worse? The instinct is usually to rest until it settles. The evidence points somewhere more nuanced, and getting this decision right matters considerably more than most people realise.

Which Exercises Actually Help Sciatica?

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Search for sciatica exercises and you will be given a list within seconds. Hamstring stretches. Piriformis stretches. Knee to chest. Cat cow. The same handful of movements appear on almost every page, presented as though they suit everybody. They do not, and the research explains why considerably better than most of those pages do.