Sciatica refers to pain that radiates along the path of the sciatic nerve, which branches from your lower back through your hips and buttocks and down each leg. Typically, sciatica affects only one side of your body but when advances can affect both sides.
Remember that your posture and lifestyle plays an important role in adding or reducing pain.
Sciatica most commonly occurs when a herniated disk, bone spur on the spine or narrowing of the spine (spinal stenosis) compresses part of the nerve. This causes inflammation, pain and often some numbness in the affected leg.
Although the pain associated with sciatica can be severe, most cases resolve with non-operative treatments in a few weeks. People who have severe sciatica that’s associated with significant leg weakness or bowel or bladder changes might require immediate attention.
Sciatica Pain management tips:
- First of all improve your sitting posture with straight spine and do not put pressure on lower back while sitting.
- Do not bend forward and avoid sudden posture change, do not sit in one posture for a long time.
- Optimize intake of calcium ( 1000mg) and magnesium ( 400 mg) everyday, also take vitamin B6 (50mg) and vitamin C(500mg).
- To reduce pain do the following:
Apply ice pack at the pain site for 20 minutes there after apply hot water bottle at the same place for same duration.
After that apply tiger oil at the pain site and massage very gently for 5 minutes.
Avoid lifting weight during pain .
- Take these homeopathic mother tinctures: Dr Reckeweg R 71 after consulting your homeopath.
mix 15 drops each in a quarter cup of water and drink three times a day.
If pain is severe and bad then consult a doctor for a good pain killer but don’t take it often only if acute bad pain and that too some sometime.
- .Avoid Yoga and exercise during pain and take rest.
- Do yoga and meditation to avoid recurrence but under strict supervision.
- Get one-week acupuncture treatment and Chirpractic treatment , the best way to control sciatica and chronic pain.
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