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Is There a Compressive Nerve Sensitization?
If you've got an L5 nerve root problem and forward bending is painful, if you add net flexion, an ankle-toz flexion to that movement. That gives you some more clues that you should be looking for peripheral nerve sensitization. You can put them into the provocative position, as long as they're not too severe, and then add neck flexion or dorsiflexion. Personally, I prefer to take them out of the provocative position,. change the neck or foot position and save it alters their range of lumbar flexion. It's a little bit less provocative. And you can just gently guide them, because you don't want to force them into the