Sciatica Treatment

Sciatica treatment is a greatly misunderstood concept by most patients suffering with sciatic nerve pain. Sciatica is actually not a condition at all, but a SYMPTOM of some other root cause of the pain. There are many different causes of sciatic nerve related symptoms and achieving an accurate diagnosis is crucial if subsequent back pain treatments are to have any hope for success.

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What is Sciatica Treatment?

Sciatica is a mixture of symptoms including pain, tingling, numbness and/or weakness in the lower back, buttocks, legs and feet. Patients might have some or all of these neurological symptoms and might experience them in any of these common locations. Some patients have a steady and well defined pain pattern with symptoms that attack particular areas regularly. Other patients have pain which moves around to different locations and can morph from one symptom such as pain, to another such as numbness, suddenly and frequently. Sciatica is a very difficult to define disorder since the criteria vary from patient to patient. Treatment for sciatica is any modality designed to alleviate the pain and related symptoms wherever they may occur.

Sciatica Treatment Modalities

There are many possible therapies used to treat common sciatic pain. The most important factor in deciding upon the correct treatment for your particular sciatica symptoms is the diagnosis of the causative condition behind the pain. Remember that sciatica is always caused by something; it is not a condition unto itself�

The most common causative conditions behind sciatic nerve symptoms are:

* Oxygen deprivation caused by psychosomatic back pain. This is by far the most common of all chronic sciatic pain syndromes. It is also the least commonly diagnosed and accounts for the overwhelming majority of patients with unresolved sciatica symptoms.

* Herniated Discs can create a pinched nerve condition leading to sciatica symptoms.

* Back muscle pain can cause temporary sciatica symptoms due to inflammation. These conditions are short lived and should resolve themselves with no formal treatment.

* Piriformis Syndrome produces sciatica symptoms in many patients.

* Sacroiliac Joint Pain can radiate into the legs and cause sciatica symptoms.

* Spinal arthritis can cause osteophytes which might compress a nerve, leading to sciatic nerve pain. The same can hold true for facet joint arthritis.

Recommendation on Sciatica Treatment

Make sure that your diagnosis is accurate before undergoing any treatment regimen for sciatic nerve pain. Sciatica has a well deserved bad reputation as an extremely chronic and treatment resistant condition. The main reason why most patients never find a cure for their nagging sciatica symptoms is misdiagnosis of the actual cause of their pain. If this is your situation and you have suffered for a long time with chronic sciatica, I highly recommend trying a different approach to your sciatic nerve treatment. Knowledge therapy is excellent at curing pain which has been incorrectly diagnosed. This is precisely the same treatment I used to cure my own horrible back and sciatic pain. After 18 years of suffering, I was so thankful to finally find something that worked for me. I feel it is my obligation and purpose to share this therapy with as many patients as possible. I hope you can find your cure and remember to write to me if I can help in any way at all.

Sciatica Treatment to Back Pain Home page 7/13/07 Revised 8/29/07