chiropractic Santa Barbara knows that sciatica is an extremely painful condition. If you suffer from sciatic pain, you are, unfortunately, all too acquainted with the deep pain that accompanies your waking hours and inhibits your daily activities.
Sciatic pain generally travels from your low back, through the buttock(s), and down the large sciatic nerve in the back of your leg(s). Often, the pain may even travel into your knee. Sitting, as well as motion, can produce pain. Sometimes lying down will decrease, or perhaps temporarily get rid of the pain. But, sciatica cannot be corrected without proper treatment.
“Radiculopathy,” the medical term for the clinical diagnosis of sciatica, means simply that a disc has protruded from its usual 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. Such pressure is extremely painful.
Added pressure on the intervertebral discs, as well as imbalances in the muscles encompassing the spine, can happen during and after prolonged sitting, especially in a awkward position. For the most part, a specific event or definite injury doesn’t produce sciatica, but, on the contrary, it tends to come about over time as a consequence of commonplace wear and tear on the structures of the lower spine. Over the course of time the lower spine loses its capacity to function normally during everyday stresses.
The final result is that, 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 frequently referred to as a slipped disc. If the disc presses on the spinal nerve, an individual can develop sciatica.
With chiropractic adjustments and management, which often includes postural exercises, most disc problems, including sciatica, can be corrected. If you are experiencing sciatic pain, it is essential for you to seek help from your chiropractor.
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