I have lower back pain and siatica. The stretches are the only way I can get moving some days. There have been times when I froze right in my tracks from the nerve pain and fell to the ground trying to relieve the pressure. Or my muscles are so tight in my lower back that I wake up in the morning and can't bend down to pick up my shoes.

I've seen a chiropractor who told me that my gait was throwing my muscles out of whack....now the siatic nerve is pinched. He blamed the MS....said he sees a lot of this with his MS patients. Even a slightly bad gait can throw off the spine and surrounding muscles. He thought therapy was best. To look at me you would not know I have MS, but my gait is not quite right.

I'm going today to my GP to talk about therapy. I've been dealing with the pain since early last fall. I hate the thought of having to go to therapy, but I hate the pain even more.