Your Costa Mesa Chiropractor is an expert when it comes to spinal health and can help relieve the pain of sciatica. Sciatica is an extraordinarily painful affliction. If you suffer from sciatica, you are, unfortunately, all too experienced with the deep pain that accompanies your waking hours and interferes with your daily activities.
Sciatic pain ordinarily travels from your low back, through the buttock(s), and down the large sciatic nerve in the back of your leg(s). Frequently, the pain may even be felt in your knee. Motion and sitting, alike can be painful. On occasion lying down will decrease, or perhaps momentarily eliminate, the pain. Nonetheless, sciatica will not go away permanently without proper treatment.
“Radiculopathy,” the medical term for the clinical diagnosis of sciatica, means simply that a disc has distended from its original position in the vertebral column and is placing pressure on the radicular nerve (nerve root) in the lower back, which forms part of the sciatic nerve. This type of pressure is extraordinarily painful.
Increased pressure on the intervertebral discs, as well as imbalances in the muscles encircling the spine, can happen as the result of prolonged sitting, specifically in a poor position. For the most part, a specific event or exact injury doesn’t produce sciatica, but rather it tends to come about over time as a by-product of average wear and tear on the structures of the lower spine. Over the course of time the lower spine loses its ability to function in a healthy way during common daily stresses.
Ultimately, the intervertebral disc develops small fissures, or cracks, which then allows the soft nucleus to extend the disc outward. If the disc presses on sensitive tissues, it generates the pain that is generally called a ruptured disc. If the disc puts pressure on the spinal nerve, then sciatica can develop.
Most disc challenges, including sciatica, can be alleviated with chiropractic adjustments and management that commonly includes postural exercises. If you are suffering from sciatic pain, it is vital for you to seek chiropractic attention.