What is Sciatica?

by | Feb 13, 2020 | Conditions, Sciatica

The miserable, electric aching of chronic sciatica can leave you frantic for solutions. Its radiating is unique – shooting pins and needles deep in the buttock and down your leg and often into the big toe. Add numbness, tingling, or burning sensations to the mix, and your symptoms may have you bewildered and worried. What usually began with a low back pain has morphed into a torpedo of unrelenting terrible symptoms down the leg.

You’ve tried every imaginable treatment, but you need to get rid of sciatica pain at the source. Your exhausting struggle to stay active while battling debilitating pain seems to never end.

What is Sciatica?

When you are diagnosed with sciatica, this diagnosis alone isn’t always useful. What you’re experiencing is a symptom of irritation, not what’s causing it. You reach for cold packs and exercise to get rid of sciatica pain again and again, but it always comes back.

Men and women across North America are frustrated with strong medications and temporary fixes that don’t last. They’ve tried everything to relieve sciatica pain but rarely treat the cause.

Can you say YES to the following:

  • Are you tired of pain affecting your life?
  • Do you find it difficult to sit or stand for long periods- or even short ones?
  • Do you want to stop sciatica pain while driving, at work, or enjoying exercise?
  • Do you want to avoid drugs and surgery?

The rollercoaster of medication, painful injections or bed rest is often counterproductive. If you want to get off that never-ending ride, heal, and regain physical freedom, take a look at what makes successful treatment, different.

What Causes Sciatic Nerve Pain?

Get rid of sciatica pain fast, by understanding what’s causing yours. This is the essential puzzle piece missing for many patients.

Sciatica is a pain radiating along the sciatic nerve. It branches from your lower back, through hips and buttocks, and down your legs. Sudden, or aching for weeks, sciatica calf pain can even extend to feet and toes.

Pain is a powerful motivator. You might simply ask, how do I get my sciatic nerve to stop hurting? However, the way to lasting relief is to heal the cause of the irritation of the sciatic nerve at its source.

What Are the First Signs of Sciatica?

Sciatica is diagnosed using physical assessment and detailed discussion. Certain maneuvers, X-rays and other tests may help gather detailed information.

Do you recognize the following sciatica symptoms?

  • Pain in your buttocks or leg
  • Numbness
  • Tingling
  • Muscle weakness in the leg
  • Neurological sensations like burning

Sciatica is distinguished from low back pain by its path. The telltale pattern extends from the back, through your buttocks, then down the leg.

Our patients, just like most individuals suffering from sciatica, have difficulty sitting or standing for any length of time. If sciatica flare-up is severe, lying down might help, but prolonged bed rest doesn’t. The discomfort lasts for days, months, and may even become permanent and debilitating.

What Causes Nerve Compression?

The sciatic nerve’s unique positioning triggers the hallmark symptoms of compression. Supplying sensation to thighs, lower legs, and feet means if one part of the nerve is damaged, anywhere on the path may feel it. One leg is typically affected.

Sciatica can occur when bulging discs, protruding, herniated, and extruding disks, bone spurs, or spinal stenosis compress the nerve.

Let’s take a closer look at why sciatica happens:

Spinal Disc Herniation: Herniation (bulging) between vertebrae presses on sciatic nerve roots. Inflammation (swelling) can be relieved with spinal decompression, allowing the disc to heal.

Spinal Stenosis: If the spinal canal narrows, the sciatic nerve is compressed. Spinal stenosis may be caused by bone spurs, spondylolisthesis, inflammation or herniated discs.

Spinal Misalignment: When lower vertebrae are misaligned, bones may rub on the sciatic nerve. Gentle spinal manipulation realigns the spine as a practical first step to decrease inflammation.

Piriformis Syndrome: Your piriformis muscle connects the spine to the hip joint. The sciatic nerve runs through it, so muscle spasms trigger nerve pain.

Pregnancy: Sciatica commonly troubles pregnant women. Physical changes including a growing uterus and shifting weight, compress vertebrae and the sciatic nerve. Gentle spinal realignment can get rid of sciatic pain and pressure, and exercises for sciatica leg pain are helpful.

Lifestyle: Unfortunately, habits affect spinal health in surprising ways. Sitting on a wallet, continually standing, or heavy equipment belts can cause sciatica.

Tumors: Tumours pressing on spinal nerves cause pain. Serious progression may lead to muscle weakness, loss of bladder or bowel control.

Trauma: Spinal trauma may result in sciatic nerve pain after an injury.

You need expert treatment planning. If your pain lasts over a week, visit Back Clinics of Canada.

Do You Have Risk Factors For Sciatica?

  • Age- Over time, some people develop weaker bones or ligaments. Herniated disks and bone spurs are common age-related causes of sciatica.
  • Obesity- Excess body weight straining the spine may trigger sciatica.
  • Occupation- People who perform physical labor for a living often complain of back issues.
  • Prolonged sitting– Careers that require prolonged periods of sitting or driving may increase sciatica risk.
  • Diabetes– This condition increases nerve damage risk with progression.

How To Get Rid Of Sciatica Pain, Naturally

How long does sciatica last? It may depend on the treatment you choose. You can stop sciatica pain fast using natural, drug-free methods backed by science.

Medication: Once they diagnose sciatica, most doctors prescribe anti-inflammatory medication or muscle relaxants with mixed results.

Even antidepressants for sciatica are prescribed with the hope that perception of pain will lessen over time. Other sciatica drugs include Neurontin, Cymbalta, Lyrica, Cortisone or epidural injection. Trial with various prescriptions is typical.

Unfortunately, most patients report only short term relief, and long-term use might cause health concerns.

Understandably, people seek natural alternatives.

Are You Tired of Dealing With Sciatica Symptoms?

Plenty of busy, hard-working people don’t think they have time for therapy or healing processes. Often, they bear with pain far longer than they should. They’re brave and determined, but wind up with persistent, chronic sciatica that robs their quality of life.

Instead, imagine getting stronger with age. Living pain-free, not dependant on drugs, injections or surgery, and no longer sitting on the sidelines. Imagine a holistic, comprehensive approach to getting rid of sciatica pain, while allowing the spine to heal at the source.

If you think sciatica is your new normal, we have good news. Every day, people like you regain control with Back Clinics of Canada and the High-Performance Healing System™. Dr. Ron Nusbaum from Back Clinics of Canada developed this unique non-surgical drugless High-Performance Healing System™ for sciatica as well as back and neck pain sufferers. This unique drugless, non-surgical program combines the most advanced hi-tech non-surgical spinal decompression systems available in conjunction with the most powerful level of laser in the world, called Class IV laser along with Disc Renewal PlusTM, a drugless – an all-natural drugless nutritional supplementation program.

The non-surgical spinal decompression provides powerful targeted painless stretching across the disc that irritates the sciatic nerve. This stretching creates a kind of a suction force (vaccum) that can retract the bulging or herniated disc away from the sciatic nerve, resulting in a reduction or cessation of sciatic nerve pain.

The Class IV Laser, is a powerful healing device that generates safe and powerful healing laser therapy that is focused directly on the damaged disc that irritates the sciatic nerve, thus promoting disc to heal, on the cellular level. Class IV Laser also helps with the reduction of pain and inflammation, which ultimately creates even greater healing especially when combined with the spinal decompression. Class IV Laser is 1000 times more powerful than most other lasers that are used clinically. Back Clinics of Canada is the first clinic in Canada to offer the Class IV Summus.

Disc Renewal PlusTM is an all-natural pharmaceutical grade of natural supplements, in capsule form that supports connective tissue healing (discs are made of connective tissue), decreased inflammation, and pain reduction.

Plan to heal, with a system that works. This comprehensive system, provides ongoing targeted healing and testing along with specialized stretch and exercise therapy and has become a powerful healing weapon against the debilitating effects of sciatica for patients across the world.

Why Aren’t Medications Working For You?

If you’re frustrated with failed attempts to get rid of sciatica pain, you’re in good company.

Shortcomings of many therapies lie in their temporary, symptomatic relief. At best, medication only lessens pain with regular dosing, and effects may be unpleasant.

However, easing symptoms (like pain) doesn’t fix the damage. It’s more like a bandage than a cure. That’s why temporary solutions are bound to disappoint, and sometimes worsen the root problem.

For true healing, specialists target the root cause of sciatica. The High-Performance Healing System™ designed by Dr. Nusbaum for Back Clinics of Canada does precisely that. Our patients experience powerful healing, pain relief, and customized support. Treatment is safe, non-invasive, non-surgical, and effective.

There’s no need to spend another day in pain.

Scheduling your consultation with Dr. Nusbaum is easy. Call or message, here.

Get Rid of Sciatica Pain, Get Lasting Spinal Health

A component of the High-Performance Healing System™ for Toronto sciatica patients is Disc Renewal Plus™. It’s a proprietary nutritional supplementation system containing a pharmaceutical blend of natural Omega-3 Fatty Acids, Glucosamine Sulfate + MSM, and Collagen support. This powerhouse supplement is formulated to assist with healing effects of the High-Performance Healing SystemTM helping to support healing, reduced inflammation and pain relief.

Disc Renewal Plus™ is only available from Back Clinics of Canada.

Healing damaged discs is an essential step to keep pain from returning. Are you missing out?

Our Methods Make the Difference, That Works

Discover our uniquely successful system that stops or reduces sciatica nerve pain dramatically in most cases. This refreshingly different, integrative, drugless and non-surgical approach offers much more than conventional sciatica treatment.

Do you have a sciatica diagnosis? You may feel hopeless, but Back Clinics of Canada offers hope for a pain-free life. We take you beyond just pain-relief with “whole person” care that really heals at the source, and we don’t treat you like a number.

Back Clinics of Canada provides personalized, ongoing fine-tuning of treatment and measurable results. Dr. Nussbaum’s approach includes unique methods and cutting-edge technology in the High-Performance Healing System™.

Rosemary was losing hope. Diagnosed and treated by Dr. Nusbaum, she can finally resume all the activities she loves!

Wily B, who was hospitalized for sciatica and low back pain, left her walker behind after just 3 sessions with Dr. Nusbaum!

Patient success stories at Back Clinics of Canada are almost too numerous to count. Come in for an assessment and begin your own journey to pain-free living.

Call or fill our online form, and we’ll respond quickly. Get rid of sciatica pain by taking the first step today.