Do you sometimes get mysterious pain in one of your legs, your lower back, or your hips? Do you chalk it up to old age or humid weather? Well, it turns out there may be another reason for your discomfort—a condition called sciatica. In order to provide the public with more information about sciatica, Comfort Family Chiropractic of Lincoln, NE offers some analysis and advice.
How do you know whether you have sciatica and not another problem? Sciatica's most telltale sign is that it only affects one side of the body. Its symptoms include constant pain in one of your legs or half of the buttocks. It is rare to have symptoms on both sides. The pain is often worse when sitting, and it makes it difficult to rise from your seat, let alone try to walk. It may also be difficult to move your leg or wiggle your toes, and you may feel numb or weak in the affected region or have trouble bending the knee.
Sciatica is not actually a diagnosis in its own right—it is only the manifestation of an underlying medical condition. These symptoms occur when the sciatic nerve—an extremely long nerve which originates in the lower back and continues down through the buttocks and the backs of the legs—is irritated or pinched. The pinch is
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For those in the Lincoln, Nebraska area, Comfort Family Chiropractic and Dr. Alex Kallio are well-equipped to handle all sciatica questions. Whether your back pain arises from sciatica or another condition, Dr. Kallio, born and raised in nearby Fremont, will help you solve the problem with a natural, healing-focused approach. Because misaligned vertebrae or bones in the lower back may be causing the sciatica, his chiropractic care focuses on re-aligning those vertebrae. This can release the pressure on the sciatic nerve and relieve of you of the constant pain—without having to undergo risky surgery. Visit his website or call 402-484-5166 today for more
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My back is sore. I'm waiting in the chiropractor's waiting room. Today during third period my back all of a sudden started hurting excruciatingly bad, I felt like an old man with constant aching and pain in my lower back off to the left side of the spine. My cousin Truman told me about chiropractors a little while back on a hike, he told me how they crack your back or neck or anywhere but make you feel like a different man as you walk out. Your joints and bones he told me feel light and carefree after the adjustment.
It impacts the piriformis muscle. This muscle is located in the buttock area. Tightness and pain in the buttocks is common with this condition. Spasms of this muscle can cause pain in the sciatic nerve. The sciatic nerve can cause pain from the lower back down to the leg area. It can also cause the leg to feel numb. It can be quite painful. It can also be debilitating. It's difficult to get even simple things done when
Robert Trinh is a 34 year-old senior truck driver referred to your outpatient physical therapy office for “chronic low back pain” which started 7 months ago. He was lifting a particularly heavy load that day and felt something “tweaked” in his low back as he was bent over and moving the load from the truck into the sidewalk. He remembered being in a bent over posture and cannot straighten up for about 2 weeks and the posture gradually resolved. Current pain level is 8/10 with sharp burning sensation in the low back (P1= symptom location #1) that radiates down to the posterolateral right lower leg (P2= symptom location #2). The entire right lower leg also feels tingling often. Robert reports that the right lower leg can feel very sensitive at
After this latest episode of sciatica however, I knew I needed some expert advice. The thing I really liked about this chiropractor when I first met with him last year was that one of the first things he said to me was, "My goal is to get you well enough so you don't need to come see me anymore." Right on!
Sciatica is a problem that originates in the lower back and travels through the large sciatic nerves located in each leg. The pain caused by sciatica can include weakness, tingling, and numbness, and travels throughout the lower back, through the buttocks, and into the legs. Pain caused by sciatica can be consistent and even debilitating, and the pain can become greater when seated. If symptoms continue that can deteriorate further, even to the point of it becoming hard to stand and walk. Any leg pain that can be described as tingling, searing, or burning, can be attributed to sciatica. Pain may also be consistent throughout only one of the legs.
If you have an aching back, chances are you have either a lumbar sprain or a low back strain. Differentiating between the two can be very tough, though, because both show similar symptoms! As a matter of fact, it usually does not matter whether
Low back pain is one of the most common complaints with which patients go to a physician. Low back ache is so common that at least 80% of the population will get it at some point of their lives.(1) Sciatica (Radiating leg pain with or without low back pain) is a common symptom and occurs in approximately 40% of adult population at some point of time but clinically significant sciatica is only 4%-6%.(2) Intervertebral disc prolapse(IVDP) seems to be the most common cause of Sciatica but some patients with features suggesting sciatica won’t show any disc prolapse in MRI or CT scan while some people with no symptoms show disc prolapse making it a paradox.(3) This paradox led to thinking of alternate explanations that prolapsed intervertebral
Pushing to the stage of discomfort may cause more injuries and additional delay healing. A person might only have the ability to perform the most fundamental of exercises for sciatica. Three of the very most common exercises suggested with this phase would be the pelvic tilt, laying prone, and embracing either knees towards the chest. The pelvic tilt is carried out laying around the back using the knees bent and contracting the stomach muscles. Laying prone is often as simple as laying around the stomach having a pillow supporting the sides. Once there’s more improvement, the mind and torso could be lifted too. The final being active is done while laying around the back and bending the knee towards the chest. Many of these exercises for sciatica ought to be done carefully and only when there’s no
Sciatica is an exceedingly not unusual shape of lower back and leg pain, however the actual that means of the time
because of its length and size. The sciatic nerve is vulnerable to many types of injury. As a result of
When a patient has cauda equina syndrome they can have many symptoms such as impairment of the bladder, bowel and perianal or saddle numbness (Fraser). Those are the key symptoms that are used to differentiate between cauda equina syndrome and sciatica. Other symptoms that could also be present include back pain (normally in the lumbar region), sensory changes or numbness in the lower limbs, lower limb weakness and reduced lower limb reflexes (Fraser).
Chronic back pain is usually experienced in the lower back, but can also spread to the legs or feet. The triggering cause of the pain can be a variety of spinal diseases or injuries.
When I stand still, I feel somewhat relieved from walking, but the nagging bone pain in my lower left back remains. But when I stand and sometimes when I sit, I feel different pain, like there are no supports in my left lower