I learned about sciatica when I drove a utility truck for the GAS Co. I had my billfold in my back pocket. One evening my entire right leg felt like it was on fire from my hip to my ankle. I put my billfold in a front pocket now. Recently I learned that bucket seats are bad as well. I have a cushion that raises my hip tot he level of my knee. One lady told me her husband had to get rid of his car with bucket seats. SHEESH.

Your billfold is an interesting wrinkle @bob270. I had the same instigator, but as I noted before, it pressured my sacroiliac joint, causing it to inflame. That's the malady I had when I went to the osteo surgeon. I dropped him when he missed the diagnosis and wanted to go directly to pain injections -- about the same time I dropped the PT trainer. Stretching and strength exercise proved to be the solution, along with glucosamine which seemed to fix the joint problem. NOTE: I have had bucket seats on two cars for 12 years, without problems!

I remember hearing my grandmother saying, "Oh my aching sacroiliac". Your<br>situation is the first I've heard of it in 60 years @predictable. I'm<br>wondering how you tolerate bucket seats unless you aren't doing long days<br>behind the wheel. Years ago I got symptoms after days on the road during<br>vacation trips or cross country moves. I didn't know it was sciatic nerve<br>and the ache would clear up in a day or so. When I drove utility truck it<br>was long days for many months and I paid dearly. It cleared up in about a<br>year. Now that I'm retired I like to do road trips and began to experience<br>the old aches again. A chiropractor told me I also had trouble with a hip<br>rotater. The PT lady had a more complete name for that muscle. Between the<br>two I can stay out of the trouble.<br><br>

You're right, Bob, I don't do much cross-country driving in my bucket seats -- couple of times a year for 2-3,000 miles max over a week. Doing that again next week. Perhaps your "hip rotator" muscles are the adductors (three of them -- major, minor, and maximus) which run down inside your pelvis. I had to stretch and exercise them to overcome pain that my osteo doc thought was spinal pain. Loosening and strengthening the adductors was pivotal to ending my pain. Can't say I know anything about sciatica, which I thought I had, but it turned out my doc and I were wrong on that!