Chiropractic Care for Back Pain, Sciatica, Pinched Nerves, Disc Deg & Back Injuries
Sciatica
What is Sciatica?
When the sciatic nerve becomes inflamed the condition is called sciatica and the pain can be intense! The pain may follow the path of your nerve—down the back of your legs and thighs, down to your ankle, foot, and toes—but it can also radiate to your back!
Along with pain there may be burning, pins and needles, tingling, prickling, crawling sensations or tenderness. Ironically, the leg may also feel numb.
To complicate matters, although sciatica pain is usually in the back of the legs or thighs, in some people it can be in the front or side of the legs or even in the hips. For some the pain is in both legs: bilateral sciatica.
Chiropractic Care for Sciatica
All sciatica sufferers should see a chiropractor to ensure their bodies are free of subluxations. A subluxation causes spinal misalignment, disc and nerve pressure and stresses the entire body.
If you do have sciatica, from whatever cause, a chiropractic adjustment is needed to remove pressure from your nerves, rebalance your spine, take stress off your discs, and permit your body’s muscles, glands, and tissues to function in a more balanced manner.
Pinched Nerves
Pinched nerves could happen nearly anywhere and affect nerves that go to your arms, fingers, wrists, neck, head, back, shoulders, legs, muscles, and internal organs. Pinched nerves can affect your health, posture, vitality, resistance to disease, even your emotional health. Pinched nerves can make your life miserable.
Chiropractic Care for Pinched Nerves
Pinched nerves do not go away by themselves. No amount of painkillers or muscle relaxants can fix them.
Only chiropractors can analyze your body for pinched nerves and use chiropractic adjustment techniques to gently realign your body, release your internal stress and free you from your pinched nerves.
Disc Degeneration
Your spinal bones begin to change shape; your discs swell, then shrink; your ligaments, tendons and muscles begin to tighten and weaken; and your entire structural system—spinal column, hips, shoulder girdle—loses its balance, flexibility, stability, and strength. Your spine and structural system are degenerating.
Disc Degeneration Prevention
The earlier the degeneration process is identified, the better chance the patient has for its arrest and reversal.
Of course, the best approach to spinal degeneration is to prevent it from occurring in the first place.
This means bringing your children in for periodic checkups to keep them free of subluxations. Of course, anytime someone experiences a fall, accident, or other extreme stress they should have their bodies checked by a chiropractor to ensure they are subluxation-free.
Stress, including emotional stress, job stress, school stress, family stress and environmental stress, takes a toll on us. For that reason, you should have yourself check periodically for subluxations that slowly and steadily drain your life of energy, strength, and wholeness.
