Sciatica Back Pain

Struggling With Sciatica Back Pain

Six of the most common causes of sciatica back pain are trauma, piriformis syndrome, lumbar spinal stenosis, a herniated or bulging disc, spondylolisthesis, and spinal tumors. There are several avenues to be explored for getting relief and/or finding a cure for sciatica back pain. Believing your body is capable of healing itself, a chiropractor may suggest drug free and non-invasive therapy,after a complete and total examination. Several ways he may address your sciatica back could include spinal realignment, use of a cold pack or ice, an ultrasound that increases your blood circulation, and the use of a transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation unit. All of these are aimed at reducing inflammation, swelling, spasms, and pain.

For sciatica back caused by spondylolisthesis, there are excercises designed to get the back pain sciatica from shooting and shocking down your leg and back into your lower back where it is localized and thus relieving the sciatic nerve and other root nerves. Immediate localization will not occur, but if you do your exercises persistently over time this treatment for sciatic nerve pain, will move the pain up from your ankle to your knee and on to your lower back bringing relief. Another treatment for sciatic nerve pain, includes anti-inflammatory drugs like ibuprofen and for more severe cases codeine or a shot of a cortisone-type drug into the epidural area that encompasses the spinal column. Of course the shot offers only temporary relief and the root cause is still there.

Aquatic therapy is another avenue in which water is used to work the joints and soothe muscles thus letting bones and nerves back into place. Water being a very soothing place and causing very little joint resistance, total relaxation and a feeling of healing can be felt as it eases the pain. Acupuncture, a Chinese holistic therapy which is needle based has been shown to lessen sciatica symptoms. Very thin needles sometimes combined with electric current to specific points on the body have been a very effective yet painless form of pain management when administered by a Master Practioner. Massage therapy for the lower back, pelvic, thigh, and leg areas have relieved or eliminated sciatica symptoms.

The gluteus maximus muscle covers a small but extremely important group of muscles helping move and rotate the leg at the hip, the largest of these being the piriformis. The sciatic nerve moves through these muscles and when the piriformis is tight it presses on the sciatic nerve causing pain helped yet again by massage therapy. Vertebral Axial Decompression is another form of treatment which has the patient lying face down on a table holding special handgrips and in a pelvic harness. This is a traction type treatment and occurring over 1 minute intervals, relaxes and decompresses the spinal column, in 30 minutes sessions allowing healing over a series of treatments.  Yoga with its meditation, poses, and stretches helps cure stress and anxiety, but also strengthens muscles and with getting enough sleep helps your morning pain to be less and your mobility and sciatica more manageable. With all avenues presented, maybe a relief, a cure, or a manageable pain threshold can be found.