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How Do Chiropractic Adjustments Help Sciatica?

Sciatica is a set of symptoms which ranges from smaller localized pain in one or both buttocks to deliberating strong pain throughout the leg and foot. Chiropractic adjustments can help you fight sciatica, if it is caused by a slight misalignment in the structure of the lower back.

But let’s take a more detailed look at the diverse forms of sciatica, its causes, and how doctors of chiropractic can help you decrease the pain and even the root of the problem.

What is Sciatica?

Sciatica is an irritation of one of five spinal nerve roots of left, right or both sciatic nerves. In simple words, sciatica is pain extending from the lower back all way down to your feet and toes.

The Many Faces of “Ouch”

The symptoms of sciatica are, certainly, pain, weakness, numbness, burning, and odd sensations. The most common symptom of them is low back pain, but it may not always present. The location of the sciatica symptoms may vary as well. Sometimes they may center in your lower back or buttocks, other times go all the way down your leg to your toe. The symptoms also may be on one side or both or the intensity may be stronger on one side vs. the other. Occasionally, the symptoms may be presented only in one particular part of your body, for example, in your calf or foot.

What Causes Sciatica?

Sciatica has three major causes:

1. As the sciatic nerve originates in the lower back, wrong movements, bone shifting, certain pressure can cause a pinching of the sciatic nerve that consequently produces pain.
2. If you ever fell on your pelvis or hip, had a major hip, knee, ankle or foot joint surgery or injury or broke a leg bone, or if you are currently experiencing a muscle imbalance due to certain physical activity or sports, you may have a rotated pelvis at the sacroiliac joint. The sciatic nerve runs in front of a sacroiliac joint and causes pain when rubbing together.
3. One of the most common sciatic pain locations is your buttocks. There are a lot of muscles located in this area (the gluteus maximus muscle, gluteus medius muscle and gluteus minimus muscle), and the sciatic nerve is supposed to go underneath these muscles. However, in some unlucky people this nerve passes through the piriformis muscle, and thus any simple action, such as stretching or driving can cause this muscle to contract and press the sciatic nerve that, as you understand, leads to pain.

Help is on the Way! How to Treat Sciatica Successfully

When you are in pain, your only wish, understandably, is for this pain to go away. Most people’s first action is to seek pain relievers, prescribed or over-the-counter (OTC). And although most anti-inflammatory medication and other pain relief formulas reduce or at least mask the pain, they don’t really fight the root of the problem.

Your chiropractic doctor can help you treat the original cause of the pain. If the root of the pain is structural, such as muscle spasms or misaligned pelvis or vertebra, certain chiropractic adjustments, physical therapy and spinal x-ray may fully resolve your problem forever.

Millions of patients all over the world are incorrectly told that their only option with lower back pain is drugs. Don’t stay in pain, don’t be fooled by pharmaceutical companies, don’t expose yourself and your loved ones to potentially dangerous side effects of drug consumption! If you experience such pain, please, visit us at HealthNOW or contact us at 408-733-0400 for a detailed consultation from a professional. Together we can fight it successfully!