Managing intermittent sciatic pain involves avoiding full spinal flexion and modifying sitting posture.

“the uh fellow in the uh UFC this is no slouch uh Jujitsu really put his spine in a place where it could fire off an acute attack you do not want to be in the cage fighting for your life and having an acute attack that's the last thing you want um we would limit the mat time on jiujitsu he would do standup all kinds of things to minimize the accumulative stress on the disc bulge causing sciatica”