With over 3 million cases in the United States alone each year, sciatica pain is a nuisance many suffer from.
Sciatica is a pain condition that affects the sciatic nerve. Your sciatic nerve is a large nerve that runs a course through the lower back and down the back of each leg.
Due to increased pressure on this nerve, a pinch in the sciatic nerve is caused, resulting in minor to extreme pain and a burning sensation.
This condition is treatable by medical professionals. Instead of choosing a surgical route, there are alternative medicine options for you to take.
The experienced Chiropractors in Lake City (a location of Florida Spine and Injury) can help relieve your pain.
Our doctors specialize in providing patients with safe, noninvasive Chiropractic Care treatments and personalized therapy plans.
If you live a sedentary lifestyle and find yourself sitting more than being active and standing, you are more likely to develop sciatica.
With diabetes, a disease that affects how your body uses and processes blood sugar, you have a higher chance of developing sciatica.
Sciatica is more likely to develop in those who have a substantial amount of excess weight on their frame. This additional weight adds a lot of pressure onto your spine; pressure that it is not used to.
This added pressure is something that may contribute to the development of sciatica.
Your spinal cord may shift or change as you age. Changes in the spinal cord can be herniated discs and bone spurs.
These changes can lead to sciatica.
If you work at a job that requires a lot of physical strain, you may be at-risk for sciatica. The physical strain of heavy lifting and twisting or long periods of driving is something thought to lead to this pain condition.
*For this factor, there is not any hard evidence that connects physical occupational strain to sciatica, just a lot of common occurrences in sciatica patients.
A pinched sciatic nerve can occur because of various factors.
However, just as there are factors that lead to this pain developing, there are factors to alleviate this pain condition.
No matter what factors, lifestyle or other, that caused sciatica to develop in your body, the doctors at the Lake City office of Florida Spine and Injury are experienced in relieving sciatica pain.
There are a few chiropractic care treatments that work against sciatica to release pressure and alleviate pain.
Your personalized sciatica chiropractic treatment plan can include:
Flexion-distraction therapies
This therapy uses a computer-designed table to stretch out your body and spine, stretching out your irritated spinal discs.
Flexion-distraction helps to reintroduce fluid to the affected spinal discs and is a safe, gentle chiropractic method that restores full mobility to your back and legs.
Manual massage or therapy
Through hands-on massage therapy helps to increase blood flow to the pinched area (or areas) of your sciatic nerve.
Therapeutic massage and manual therapies help to relieve tension in your muscles and encourage your body to strive for a better overall well-being.
Therapy stretching techniques
Proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (PNR), passive, and active are a few therapeutic stretches that could help your body with muscular tension.
Stretch therapy techniques help to alleviate muscle tightness in the soft tissue structures around the sciatic nerve.
During therapy treatments with this technique, you will be able to feel the tightness in your muscles disappear.
Spinal manipulation
For spinal manipulations, the end goals are to take pressure off of the nerve and restore full range of motion in the spine.
Once these goals are complete, pressure and tension will decrease in your sciatic nerve.
If your sciatica is restricting your mobility, spinal manipulations are a fool-proof treatment technique.
Spinal adjustments work to correct proper joint loading and function, helping to alleviate the pressure that you are experiencing.
The one thing that is similar in every case we have treated over our years in chiropractic care is that no two cases or injuries are the same.
Every patient requires a different chiropractic treatment plan; one that is customized to their specific limitations, pains, and diagnosis.
As a Lake City resident suffering from sciatic nerve pain, there is no better doctor to call than Florida Spine and Injury's Lake City clinic.
In our care, you will receive a proper diagnosis, personalized treatment plan, and safe therapies for pain relief.
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If you are a Lake City resident who believes they are suffering from Sciatica Pain, do not delay − schedule a Free Consultation with the #1 Lake City Chiropractors so that you can receive a proper injury diagnosis.
Once you have been appropriately diagnosed with Sciatica, proper chiropractic treatment can begin.
Your Lake City Doctor will customize a chiropractic treatment plan based on your specific injuries and body limits.
Every treatment plan we give our patients is safe and gentle.
The conventional chiropractic care techniques we include in our treatment plans are:
Remember that the most crucial step to take is seeking medical attention for your pain as soon as possible. You put your body at risk for permanent nerve damage if you delay medical treatment.
If you have been experiencing lower back, hip, and/or leg pain, you may suffer from Sciatica.
Please schedule a Free Injury Consultation with our Lake City Chiropractic Care Clinic so that you can be properly diagnosed and treated.
