To combat this loss to food supplement sales, they are raising safety issue. They want to force supplement industry to prove safety and effectiveness before they go to market, even though millions have been using them with good results for decades. In addition, they are pointing out that some of 900 supplement manufacturers are not selling strengths and contents advertised on packaging. But free market fix to this problem is already in place.

Internet Web Sites now exist that rate quality and content of popular supplements. They will most certainly improve or disappear if they are less than perfect. In addition, reputable M.D.s who are more concerned with results than scientific method, are recommending reliable supplements from suppliers who are diligently building their reputations for content and quality. Sometimes they cost more than similar products from reputable discount suppliers and every customer can choose between certainty and price; more so than they can with prescription drugs. The drug companies will do all they can to raise cost of dietary supplements through government regulation.

The ever increasing dietary supplement customers are informed of this drug game by their suppliers. Unlike drug customers, supplementers are better educated and often know much more about health than their family physicians, trained in disease. It will be no easy task to scare these people into arms of government regulators. This has been proven more than once.

Astute Congressmen such as Orrin Hatch and Tom Harkin are looking at relative cost/benefit ratios of drugs and competitive dietary supplements. Noting that a drug benefit can cost more than one hundred times an equal or greater benefit from an equivalent dietary supplement, it is dawning on them that established scientific medicine is a cost prohibitive racket that refuses to compromise. It has been proven many times that inexpensive dietary supplements can boost effectiveness and safety of pharmaceutical drugs. Your doctor won't tell you because he doesn’t know. The drug companies won't tell you because you'll use less of their product. The alternative healers will tell you and save you money if you insist on using drugs. Before much longer, Congress will see solution to health care crisis is to move away from scientific disease management, toward prevention, health and healing.

It has been long known that worst possible place for a sick person is hospital. When hospitals close for whatever reason, local mortality rates drop. This means exactly what it sounds like. Hospitals kill more people than diseases they treat. But don't you worry. It's all very legal. Hospital hygiene is less regulated than restaurants. So if we must regulate something, perhaps we should start here. This is much more an issue of life and death than ephedra, so you might never hear it on TV.

Western medicine is at crossroads. Alternative medicine will soon prove statistically, if un scientifically, that scientific disease management; directly, indirectly, short term and long term, kills more people than it helps. The sickly Westerner will learn what is making him sick. He will learn that no one ever died of a drug deficiency. He will learn that stress, toxemia and malnutrition are root cause of every disease known to mankind and will respond in his own interest, instead of running to science pros.

When you have an injury to a muscle, both strength and flexibility are compromised, and if your recovery ends before strength and flexibility return, you will never be 100% and will likely struggle with problem forever.

The other way sciatic pain creeps into your life is due to your lifestyle and habits, and that is what we like to call process. The process can be described as a prolonged onset of symptoms based on your everyday activities...

However, from a technical stand point process really describes development of muscle imbalance in your hip. The Piriformis muscle is responsible for external rotation (moving your leg so your feet point outward). So over time that muscle gets tight from positions you put your self in and weakens from lack of use.

Let me give you some examples of what I mean:

1. If you sit on edge of your chair with you legs separated and your feet pointing outward you are keeping your Piriformis muscle in a shortened position and that’s how it gets tight and with extended sitting in that position, it gets weak form lack of use. Hence imbalance.

2. Another example is runners and bikers who actually work very hard tend to get sciatica because they fail to keep a strength vs. stretch balance in their workouts. Hence imbalance creates a greater pull toward external rotation and result is a tight Piriformis and an irritated sciatic nerve creating pain.

These are just two examples of how muscle imbalances can affect Piriformis muscle and cause Sciatic pain. You may not be a runner or cyclist but I’ll bet you have muscle imbalances that are causing your sciatic pain!

To learn more about muscle imbalances and how they affect your body, please read our article “Aches, Pains, and Injuries” which you can find on our website here: http://www.losethebackpain.com/achesandpainsarticle.html

Recovery Tip: In severe cases, sciatic pain can run from top of hip to bottom of foot. It is very important to recognize that changes and shifting of pain is often times a sign of improvement. Further more as a way of gauging recovery, take note of how far down leg pain goes. If pain goes to foot one day and then only makes it to calf and then to knee and then it can only make it to hamstring that is a sign of improvement. You should feel good about those noticeable improvements and this should give you encouragement to keep working toward a full remission of pain.

So how do you get rid of your pain? Will learning one new stretch be enough? It very well may be. However depending on severity of your condition you may need to change your activities of daily living to include new stretches, new exercises that include use of hip rotators like roller-blading, basketball, tennis, etc, and even better, specific corrective exercise specific to your situation... like those covered in our video. As always, learn as much as you can about your condition, so that you can ask tough questions to your healthcare providers and get best care possible.

One last point, sciaitic pain is not caused by a lack of prescription medications so don’t think that taking some anti-inflammatories or muscle relaxants will fix it... it won’t! Also, many people are able to eliminate sciatic pain within days just by performing a few exercises and stretches... but not general exercise... exact corrective exercises and stretches they need to do.

Find out what’s causing your sciatic pain and learn exactly which exercises and stretches you should be doing by watching our Lose Back Pain Video. Order your copy now online at http://www.losethebackpain.com