When your sciatica is flaring, it's hard to think about anything else. The pain might be so severe, burning, tingling or nagging that it derails your whole day. But a few simple sciatica stretches can ease that pain and help prevent it from coming back, experts tell TODAY.com.

Keeping your nerves healthy and functional means giving them space, enough blood supply and consistent movement, Colleen Louw, physical therapist and program director at Evidence In Motion and spokesperson for the American Physical Therapy Association, tells TODAY.com.

The same is true for your sciatic nerve. But, if the nerve is compressed or inflamed anywhere along its route through your body, that can cause sciatica. Because the nerve runs all the way from your lower back, down the back of each leg and into th

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