If you or someone you know is suffering with the low back dis-ease "sciatica?" then you know how agonizing and even draining this problem can be. Aside from the pain and pain that is felt in the low back, which is sufficiently bad on its own, you're also experiencing some type of symptoms in one or both of your lower outlying areas (any area between the butt cheeks down to the toes). These symptoms range from pins and needles, insensibility to varied sensations of discomfort all experienced in the butt cheeks, back of the legs, calf area, ankle, sole of the foot or the toes.
You're probably wondering what is causing the agony and what to do about it. The exact cause may be different from case to case but in brief sciatica comes from some sort of nerve damage. It may be a direct compression of the nerve (pinched nerve) but very often it's not compressed, instead it is stretched, twisted or sheared by an anomaly of the backbone.
Most individuals will search out help from their GP and are usually given pain relievers and if this does not work wait for a physiotherapy referral. But when you suffer with sciatica your best decision is likely to head straight out for your local chiropractor instead. Unlike a GP who must "generalise" in a variety of disease processes a doctor of chiropractic specializes in diseases of the spine and is thus much more likely to help in finding the swiftest way to resolve your sciatica.
There's a growing body of proof that chiropractic doctors are highly effective at resolving both acute and persistent sciatica with some data pointing to 80-90% success rates. In addition to this there aren't any side effects with chiropractic treatment like there are with drug care, steroid injections or surgical interventions. For example recent information has shown that epidural injections often given to deal with the agony of sciatica may raise the probability of spinal fracture all though your life.
If you are suffering with sciatica then seek out help as soon as you can, because the earlier you deal with the problem the easier it will be to cure.
You're probably wondering what is causing the agony and what to do about it. The exact cause may be different from case to case but in brief sciatica comes from some sort of nerve damage. It may be a direct compression of the nerve (pinched nerve) but very often it's not compressed, instead it is stretched, twisted or sheared by an anomaly of the backbone.
Most individuals will search out help from their GP and are usually given pain relievers and if this does not work wait for a physiotherapy referral. But when you suffer with sciatica your best decision is likely to head straight out for your local chiropractor instead. Unlike a GP who must "generalise" in a variety of disease processes a doctor of chiropractic specializes in diseases of the spine and is thus much more likely to help in finding the swiftest way to resolve your sciatica.
There's a growing body of proof that chiropractic doctors are highly effective at resolving both acute and persistent sciatica with some data pointing to 80-90% success rates. In addition to this there aren't any side effects with chiropractic treatment like there are with drug care, steroid injections or surgical interventions. For example recent information has shown that epidural injections often given to deal with the agony of sciatica may raise the probability of spinal fracture all though your life.
If you are suffering with sciatica then seek out help as soon as you can, because the earlier you deal with the problem the easier it will be to cure.
About the Author:
Peter Olsson qualified as a doctor of chiropractic in 2005 and has gone on to concentrate on the resolution of sciatica. He works with dozens of people suffering with sciatica every week. You'll find many great articles about sciatica on his website.
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