If you have sciatica or sciatic nerve pain in Vapi, you’ll know it’s one of the worst pains you could ever have, it can be absolutely crippling!
You bend down to pick up your shoes, or something you’ve dropped, or lift something, and you have the WORST pain you’ve ever felt in your life, like a lightning bolt, shooting through your low back, into your butt, and sometimes partially or all the way down your leg.
Back pain and sciatica differ but are often confused with each other. Back is specific to the upper, mid or low back. Sciatica is a more diffuse, radiating pain down the buttock, thigh, and even leg. It is also possible to have radiculopathy, which is a radiating numbness, tingling, burning, or sharp pain to a specific part of the leg. This is often associated with a herniated disc, or entrapment of the nerve of that area, as it exits the spine.
- What is Sciatica?
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Sciatica is pain that typically occurs in the buttock and radiates down one leg following the course of the sciatic nerve. Low back pain, leg pain, numbness and weakness are also common, but may be less noticeable.
More than 90% of cases result from a disc disorder that causes compression of one or more of the nerve roots that comprise the sciatic nerve (for example, see Figure 1). In most cases a spinal disc herniation is to blame, but spondylolisthesis, foraminal stenosis, synovial cysts, piriformis syndrome, tumors, spinal instability and sciatic compression during pregnancy can also cause it.
- How will physiotherapy help with my back pain or sciatica?
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For most people, back pain will come and go. However, what many people don’t realize, is that the underlying problem of poor joint movement, core weakness, and poor muscle coordination, will set them up for a future back injury, which can be significantly worse.
Back pain and sciatica are both completely treatable through physiotherapy. Your physiotherapist creates a specific treatment plan for you that is dependent upon your diagnosis. The early stages of your physiotherapy treatment focus on quick pain relief.
As your pain reduces, your physiotherapist will expand on strengthening your core muscle group with specific therapeutic exercises and stretches. The goal here is to increase your strength and range of motion to prevent re-injury of your spine. Finally, we teach you ergonomics and ways to make sure you know how to take care of your spine, avoiding future problems.
If you are suffering from sciatica, our physiotherapists will implement specific leg stretches into your treatment plan to loosen the sciatic nerve. This restores the natural health of the nerve and quickly reduces symptoms.
- Best Sciatica Pain Treatment in Vapi
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Do you wake up in the morning with that nagging back pain? Are you feeling achy pain in your back, buttock, or even thigh? Are you having to watch what you do, because you are afraid you may hurt your back? If so, physiotherapy can help.
If you are searching for back pain relief or sciatica relief, don’t rely on medicines to mask the symptoms. Your body is telling you of the deeper root cause of the problem that needs to be fixed. Know that physiotherapy should be your first treatment of choice, which eliminates your need for harmful painkilling drugs, such as opioids, or possibly avoid an invasive surgical procedure.
