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Chiropractic Care for Sciatica

Sciatica is a painful condition that occurs when your sciatic nerve becomes pinched, and it’s more common than you might think, affecting up to 40% of the population! Your sciatic nerve travels from your lower back, past your hips, and down each leg. Sciatic pain can be found anywhere along this path and is often felt throughout the entire length of the nerve. While some spinal problems are easy to link to an event, like a car accident, sciatica is often the result of cumulative damage. Years of bad posture, poor muscle tone, excess weight, or countless other causes are usually to blame. Spinal degeneration, bone spurs, and disc thinning, bulges, or herniations are other common causes of sciatica. These are all things that can put pressure on the sciatic nerve roots. Once the stage is set, something as simple as bending over to tie your shoes can trigger an episode. The pain typically presents as a sharp, shooting pain or a deep, dull ache and can even lead the affected leg and foot to feel numb and weak. While milder cases often resolve on their own, more severe sciatica can lead to chronic pain and generally requires some sort of medical intervention. 


Sciatica can be very serious and, left untreated, some cases of sciatica can lead to permanent damage to your sciatic nerve. This could cause you to lose feeling in your affected leg or even lose control of your bowel and bladder. Medical treatment options for sciatica typically include pain medication, physical therapy, and even surgery for more severe cases. The problem with some of these methods is that they do not fix the underlying cause of your pain. Pain killers and muscle relaxers aren’t able to correct the nerve compression, they simply mask the symptoms. Physical therapy merely exercises the unstable joints. Surgery is certainly an effective way to help, but this option is incredibly invasive, expensive, and often involves cutting away disc tissue or removing bone to make room for the impinged nerve. Fortunately, sciatica often responds to safe, natural chiropractic care. 


Chiropractic care is a wonderful option for people seeking relief from sciatica. This is because, for a lot of people, chiropractic care is a far more appealing option for long-term pain management than taking medication every day. The purpose of a chiropractic adjustment is to help restore proper spinal alignment, thereby freeing up impinged nerves and allowing your body to heal itself at its most optimal level. Because sciatica is the result of a pinched sciatic nerve, chiropractic treatment for this condition is a no-brainer. Another major advantage of chiropractic care is that it is a widely available and accessible option. Chiropractic clinics are easy to find, you don’t need a referral from a medical doctor, and many practices are able to see patients quickly, oftentimes with same-day availability. By using spinal manipulation techniques and other natural practices, chiropractors can help relieve the pressure on your sciatic nerve. Our Dunwoody chiropractor is uniquely skilled to evaluate and reduce the most common causes of sciatic nerve pain. Many of our sciatica patients here at Dunwoody Chiropractic Center report that they have been able to resume their lives and are thrilled that their symptoms have disappeared without drugs or surgery. If you prefer a natural approach to better health, give us a call to schedule your appointment today and maybe you, too, can say goodbye to sciatica!

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