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Chiropractor Santa Barbara is well aware that sciatica is an extremely painful condition. If you suffer from sciatic pain, you are, unfortunately, all too acquainted with the deep pain that is constant during your waking hours and inhibits your daily activities.

Sciatic pain generally travels from your low back, through the buttock(s), and down the large sciatic nerve in the back of your leg(s). Often, the pain can even radiate into your knee. Sitting, as well as motion, can be painful. Sometimes lying down will reduce, or perhaps temporarily get rid of the pain. However, sciatica cannot be corrected without proper care.

“Radiculopathy,” the medical term for the clinical diagnosis of sciatica, means simply that a disc has distended from its usual position in the vertebral column and is causing pressure on the radicular nerve (nerve root) in the lower back, which forms part of the sciatic nerve. Such pressure is extraordinarily painful.

Additional pressure on the intervertebral discs, as well as imbalances in the muscles surrounding the spine, can take place as the result of prolonged sitting, particularly in a poor position. For the most part, an explicit event or definite injury doesn’t create sciatica, instead it tends to manifest over time as a result of average wear and tear on the structures of the lower spine. Over time the lower spine loses its ability to function in a healthy way during common daily requirements.

The final result is that, the intervertebral disc develops small fissures, or cracks, which then allows the soft nucleus to extend the disc outward. If the disc puts pressure on sensitive tissues, it produces the pain that is generally called a ruptured disc. If the disc presses on the spinal nerve, then sciatica can develop.

Most disc challenges, including sciatica, can be alleviated with chiropractic adjustments and therapies that usually includes postural exercises. If you are experiencing sciatic pain, it is essential for you to seek help from your chiropractor.

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