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Sciatica Surgery
Sciatica surgery is a general description of any procedure designed to alleviate the actual cause of
sciatica symptoms.
Remember that sciatica is not a condition unto itself; it is merely a symptom of an underlying causative condition. In order for the surgery to be effective, the diagnosis of the actual cause of
sciatic nerve pain
must be correct. Sciatica is a complicated condition to diagnose, since there are so many possible symptomatic sources in the
spine,
as well as other possible causes.
Variations of Sciatica SurgeryAlmost every spinal procedure can be performed multiple ways. It is always advisable to seek out a surgeon who can perform a minimally invasive version of the prescribed procedure. Less invasive operations will heal faster and inflict far less damage on healthy back tissue. Problems with Sciatica SurgeryMost medical doctors do not acknowledge psychosomatic back pain as a primary cause of sciatica. The majority of physicians will diagnose a condition as idiopathic (of unknown origin), rather than speculate that the mind might be involved in the creation and perpetuation of symptoms. Usually, this dooms the patient to wander aimlessly through the medical system, enduring one failed treatment after another. Eventually, many of these patients with unresolved back pain acquiesce to surgical correction in the hopes of finally finding relief. Physical back pain responds well to physical treatment. If conservative measures have failed, there is a very good chance that surgery will also demonstrate poor curative results. Unfortunately, surgery can also cause permanent damage and reduce the patient’s functionality for the rest of their lives. If your long term sciatica condition has shown a treatment resistant characteristic, consider the chance that it might be the direct result of ischemia created by a psychosomatic process.Recommendation on Sciatica SurgerySciatica is one of the most feared of all spinal conditions. The reasons for this well deserved foul reputation are easy to recognize. Sciatica is one of the longest lasting and most therapy resistant of all back pain syndromes. The symptoms can be debilitating, yet change and morph on a regular basis, making an accurate diagnosis difficult. Oxygen deprivation of the sciatic nerve is the most common cause of all sciatica conditions, yet the least often diagnosed. Add up these factors and you have one truly horrific nightmare of a pain syndrome to contend with.I suffered from sciatica symptoms accompanying my lower back pain for 18 long years. My sciatic nerve symptoms were blamed on a combination of my lumbar degenerative disc disease and my 2 herniated discs. It always seemed strange to me that the symptoms changed so often and did not generally correspond to the clinical symptoms expected from my diagnosed conditions. This did not seem to bother my doctors at all, who were prepared to treat the condition as disc related, regardless of an atypical symptomatic profile. Well, after much time and effort, I managed to cure my own sciatic pain and all my other spinal symptoms using knowledge therapy. Thank God, I did not listen to the surgeons who insisted I needed surgery to cure my pain. Life is much better without chronic back pain and the fact that I could end my suffering without enduring sciatica surgery, makes life even sweeter…
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