What Causes Sciatica?
When you’re experiencing pain that radiates down into one leg or the other, tingling or numbness in your legs or hip area, pain when making a certain motion, or pain when resting in a specific position, you might have sciatica. Our chiropractors at Total Care Injury & Pain Centers in five Louisiana locations offer quality sciatica treatment.
What Is Sciatica?
Sciatica is actually a diagnosis of one or more of the aforementioned symptoms that affect one or more of your sciatic nerves. These nerves are connected to your spine and run down through your legs. Pain is triggered by a nerve getting pinched somewhere in your spine or hip region.
What Causes Sciatica?
Sciatica can be caused by so many factors, including age-related wear and tear on your spine, working a desk job, working a job that requires a lot of lifting and bending over, putting extra strain on your spine due to obesity, and more.
Due to the often-elusive root cause, it’s important to get evaluated and treated to avoid long term health issues and chronic pain. You run the risk of developing nerve damage, permanent numbness, and permanent muscle weakness. And with falling becoming a bigger risk as you get older, it’s critical to receive adequate care.
How Our Team Can Treat Sciatica
Since we need to figure out the root cause of your sciatica to properly treat it, our doctors will perform a full evaluation and delve into your health history for an accurate diagnosis. We have several treatment options available to match your needs:
- Manual Chiropractic Adjustments - When your spine is out of alignment, this can lead to a pinched or irritated nerve. Manual adjustments can provide quick pain relief and help your body heal, thus stopping the sending of pain signals to your brain.
- Instrument Adjustments - When you’d rather have a gentler adjustment, our chiropractors have instruments that offer gentle precision to provide the same positive results.
- Spinal Decompression Therapy - When you have a bulging or herniated disc causing sciatica, non-surgical spinal decompression therapy can provide both immediate and lasting pain relief. Spinal decompression can take pressure off of compressed nerves and make room for your discs to retreat back into place, thus preventing future pain.
- Nutritional Guidance - Since sciatica causes a lot of pain and widespread inflammation, we can recommend quality whole food supplements to help further reduce inflammation and speed the healing process.
Schedule an Appointment Today
Here at Total Care Injury & Pain Centers, we understand just how debilitating sciatica can be.
If you’re looking for a natural sciatica pain treatment, then our team is here for you. Call our toll-free number today at 1-888-693-9983 to learn about our Louisiana locations and schedule your appointment.
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