Sciatica is a form of nerve pain that a person usually feels in their lower extremities starting in the lower lumbar area of the back, down behind the thigh, and on down to the back of the knee. The sciatica nerve is the biggest nerve in the human body.
Sciatica nerve pain is usually caused by some kind of disc problem where the disc is irritated or pinching a nerve in the back. It can also be caused by things like tumors, infection, muscle damage, bone injury, or even the weight of pregnancy. Some people get sciatica nerve pain due to a degenerative problem such as arthritis, disease, or trauma from an injury. In order to get the right sort of treatment for sciatica nerve pain, Premier Health Chiropractors will review the patient’s medical history and perform a full physical.
Sciatica nerve pain causes sensations such as numbness, tingling, and burning feelings that will not only attack the back, but the buttocks, hip and legs. It can make it very hard to walk or bend over. The pain of sciatica is treated in several ways and one of those methods is chiropractic treatment. In fact, sciatica nerve pain is a very common treatment in chiropractic care. The chiropractic care principle is to decrease the compression on the sciatica nerve in order to relieve the pain. Premier Health Chiropractors do this by adjusting the skeletal positions and biomechanics. This gives better joint mobility and releases the nerves, helping the body heal so the symptoms lessen.
There are several advantages to chiropractic care over regular medication or surgery. The main advantage is that it uses no drugs. This is the safest method of treatment. It focuses on trying to relieve the symptoms and pain to help the joints back into balanced and normal working conditions. Our chiropractors take a special, hands-on-approach to our patient’s treatments. This “adjustment” is done with a precise thrust of the hand onto a joint area that is meant to realign the skeleton in the right and most optimal position.
Chiropractic treatment is meant to help a person’s body heal by itself and uses the idea that if a person has restricted spinal movement, then it causes pain and makes the person have less function in various parts of their body. It may take several chiropractic adjustments to get rid of a person’s sciatica nerve pain, but our chiropractic clinics are here to focus on your pain and discomfort, and treat your body to a full, lasting recovery.