Sciatica is a condition associated with back pain and pain in your lower limbs. If you suffer from sciatic problems you will typically feel numbness and muscle weakness in your back, hips, buttocks, legs, calves and foot. The sciatic nerve is the largest and longest nerve in your body. It runs from the spinal column near the pelvis down your legs and it is about as wide as your thumb. This large nerve has five smaller nerves that branch out into your thigh, knee, calf, ankle and foot. When sciatica occurs the sciatic nerve is compressed, irritated or inflamed which triggers pain. If your lower spine becomes misaligned and pinches the root of the sciatic nerve, it typically results in sciatic nerve problems.

Chiropractic Treatments Can Help Sciatica Patients Manage Their Pain

Our Richardson chiropractor can help relieve back pain by using gentle spinal adjustment techniques to correct the spinal misalignment and remove the blockage that is pinching the sciatic nerve and causing back pain in the lower extremities of your body. Massage therapy combined with chiropractic adjustment can help alleviate sciatic pain by relaxing the muscles and increasing blood flow to the nerves. Ultrasounds and ice therapies are other treatments that may be used to relieve pain caused from your sciatic nerve and reduce the inflammation in your spinal nerves. Our chiropractor will take x-rays after your treatments in order to determine if there is an improvement in the spinal alignment. By this time your symptoms should be improving and your body will be healing.

Dr. Aljamal is dedicated to providing non-evasive, medication-free chiropractic care that not only works to relieve the pain, but treats the problem so that the body can heal. Our Richardson chiropractor believes in promoting wellness care for the entire body. Some of our wellness care services include nutrition and weight loss counseling as well as massage therapy and chiropractic treatments. If you are suffering from lower back and sciatic nerve problems or other musculoskeletal pain then call our office today for an appointment and get on your way to becoming healthy and pain-free.

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