I was mulling recording a video on the subject but it's not until 1 of my staff walked down the hallway with her bright yellow leggings that I finally had found an inspiring canvas to do the demonstration.

The term "sciatic nerve stretch" is actually a little bit of a misnomer. This maneuver helps glide the sciatic nerve underneath external rotators of the hip, in particular the piriformis,

which is in closest proximity to the sciatic nerve in the buttock. It would fall in the category of what we commonly refer to as "nerve flossing" stretches: movements that help improve normal glide between soft tissue structures, and in this case between the peripheral nerve and its surrounding soft tissues such as muscles.

This stretch needs to be done with extreme attention to starting positioning, as well as slowly and deliberately to avoid stinging the nerve. 1 of the most common mistakes that I see is that the patient feels to maintain flexion of the hip and knee with the internal rotation of the leg when they start combining knee extension and dorsiflexion with knee flexion and plantar flexion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqDexohUB4E