The Sciatica Guide

A patient-facing sciatica guide that stays part of the treatment plan.

  • The Sciatica Guide (Individual Edition)
  • The Sciatica Guide (Individual Edition)
  • The Sciatica Guide (Individual Edition)
  • The Sciatica Guide (Individual Edition)
  • The Sciatica Guide (Individual Edition)
  • The Sciatica Guide (Individual Edition)

You can do everything right in the clinic and still find the same doubts back at follow-up.

“The pain got worse, did my disc slip out again?”

“I know you said to do this exercise, but I feel like it’ll make things worse.”

Once the clinic door closes, your patient enters the between-appointments gap. That's when YouTube, TikTok, and well-meaning friends start working against the understanding you built in clinic.

“I heard you can only fix a disc herniation with surgery?”

“How can you know what to do without an MRI?”

Sometimes your patient makes it through and comes back calm and moving in the right direction. But many don’t. What happens between appointments depends largely on what they encounter once they leave the clinic. And most of what we send patients home with — generic handouts, YouTube links — falls short, because patients can tell it is not really part of their care.

The Sciatica Guide is a 20-page illustrated booklet and webpage, personalised with your name, that feels like part of the treatment plan rather than an afterthought.

You use it during the appointment, showing your patient the visuals to help your explanations stick, then give them their own copy to take home. Later, when doubts creep in, they have something to come back to: something that reinforces what you’ve already explained and answers the questions that tend to come up afterwards.

Because patients experience it as part of their care, they are more likely to use it.

That means fewer follow-ups spent rebuilding from scratch, and more where your patient walks in still on the same page as you.

With The Sciatica Guide, you get:

  • a 20-page illustrated guide for your patients
  • a personalised webpage with your name on it
  • a print-ready PDF you can fold into an A5 booklet whenever you need to
  • ongoing use in your own practice

The Individual Edition is for one clinician only. If you want to use the Guide across a clinic or team, please go to the clinic licence.

For less than the price of a textbook, you get a clinical tool you'll use day in day out.

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If it doesn't fit in with your practice, we'll give you a full refund

Why The Sciatica Guide beats what you're trying now

You might already be using something to help patients through the between-appointments gap.

Handouts, maybe. They often contain good information, but they are generic, a little cold, and easy to forget at the bottom of a bag.

Maybe it's YouTube videos. Some are useful, but they offer fragments of advice, not a guide. Worse, they send patients into the same information environment that's part of the problem in the first place.

Both options fall short for the same reason: patients can tell they are not really part of their care. They feel like afterthoughts, so patients treat them like afterthoughts.

The Sciatica Guide is different. You use it during the appointment, it carries your name, and it lives on a dedicated website. It’s also more substantial than a typical handout: a fuller guide patients can turn to when doubts come up. That helps it feel like part of the treatment plan, not an extra.

FAQ

One or both of:

1) Print it and fold it into a booklet. This is straightforward on an auto-double-sided printer.

2) Send them a link or ask them to scan a QR code so they can visit the webpage. There, they can read the Guide online (or print and fold their own).

You own the PDF of the Guide, so you can use it as often as you like in perpetuity.

The Guide has a cartoon style that's designed to be warm and accessible. It works well for the vast majority of patients, including those who wouldn't normally pick up a medical leaflet.

The Guide sticks to treatment principles, and does not recommend any specific kind of exercise or manual therapy. This means it will likely fit in with your style of practice.

You enter your name or clinic name and it appears on everything your patient sees - webpage, PDF and paper copies.

What the Guide teaches your patients:

  • How to make sense of their symptoms.

  • How long it might last, and to prepare for flare-ups

  • The role of injections, surgery and MRI

  • How to keep moving and stay in control.

  • Reassuring info on disc herniations, bending and lifting.

  • Red flag symptoms: when to worry and when to relax.

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