Sciatica Pain Relief With Chiropractic Care
How to treat sciatica nerve pain
Can a chiropractor help your sciatica?
Do I have a pinched nerve?
How to relieve sciatic pain?
Your sciatic nerve is the largest nerve in your body, about the width of your thumb. It carries messages from your brain through your spine to your legs, as well relay messages from those areas back to your brain.
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What Is Sciatica? What Is Sciatica Nerve Pain?
Anything that puts pressure on your sciatic nerve can result in sciatica nerve pain. This often happens around your pelvis or hip. Sometimes a small muscle under your glutes called your piriformis will be under tension. As your sciatic nerve passes either next to or through this muscle, any stress in your piriformis could put tension on your sciatic nerve causing sciatica nerve pain.
What causes sciatica nerve pain can also include problems in your pelvis or lower spine. If you have any sort of injury in this area or mechanical problems such as lack of proper mobility, this could contribute to your sciatica symptoms.
Another factor is the health of your spine. If there is any degeneration in your lower spinal joints or discs, this can also add to your sciatic nerve pains.
Symptoms Of Sciatic Nerve Pain
So what does sciatica feel like and what are sciatica symptoms? When you have sciatica nerve pain, you may feel pain starting in your lower back. When you have sciatica, the sciatic nerve pain location can include your gluts as well as down the back of your leg and sometimes to your calf.
Your sciatic nerve pain could be mild to severe. It can also feeling burning or tingling, like electric shocks. Numbness or weakness are also common.
Things such as coughing and sneezing may make your nerve pain worse. Sciatica pain will usually only be on one side of your body. Sitting can also be tough.
To know how long does sciatica pain last or how many treatments for sciatica with a chiropractor is needed, this can really depending on a number of factors. These include:
- How long you have had the pain
- The condition of your back and spine
- What triggered the pain
- Your overall physical health
Sometimes sciatica can be resolved fairly quickly while other times it can go on for months.
Sciatica Treatment
Sciatica nerve pain relief often begins with conservative care. This can include seeing your North Burnaby Heights physiotherapist or chiropractor for sciatica relief. Your treatment can include:
- Physiotherapy:
- Manual therapy to restore movement and provide pain relief of sciatic nerve pain
- Electrical modalities for sciatica pain relief
- Exercise rehab including stretches for sciatica
- Postural tips such as how to sit with sciatica
- Strengthening exercises
- Chiropractic: Adjustments improve the movement and function of your spine, pelvis and hips. With less stress on your nerves your body will be better able to repair
- Exercises for sciatica: Sciatica exercises may include sciatica stretches, strengthening and core exercise
- Surgery: When conservative care is not successful, or you are having trouble with your bathroom functions (bowel and bladder control) surgery may be needed
- Results will of course vary from person to person
Home Remedies For Sciatic Nerve Pain
- Wallet: Avoid having your wallet in your back pocket. Put it in your front pocket instead or somewhere else. By having it in your back pocket when you sit, it unbalances your pelvis and lower back which is not an ideal position for you to be in
- Posture: Try and sit up straight, with your back fully resting against your chair’s back rest. Slouching is hard on your spine, joints, discs and nerves
- Move: Get up and move at least every hour if you spend long periods of time working, studying or gaming
- Core: By keeping your core strong, your spine will have more support and better coordination. You will be less likely to injure yourself such as from unexpected movements such as falls or bumps
- Exercise: Stretch those tight muscles from sitting too long such as your hamstrings and hip flexors. Strengthen those weak muscles as well, like your gluts, abdominals and quads
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Frequently Asked Questions
Can chiropractors do anything for sciatica?
Your treatments may include spinal and joint adjustments, a variety of stretching and strengthening rehab exercises as well as suggestions on ergonomics and posture.
Does sciatica go away by itself?
What is the fastest way to cure my sciatica?
What triggered my sciatica pain?
Your team is here to help you figure out how to fix a pinched nerve or sciatica pain.
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