Severe sciatic nerve pain can seem to be crippling at times, so I found a way to fix my sciatica.
To start with for many years I use to use a heating pad to try and relieve the pain but, once I removed the heat the pain was still there just as bad or some times, even worse.
Then I found out that, to fix my sciatica, I should have been using ice packs for twenty minutes every one to two hours (this helped way more than the heat) and followed up with exercises designed to stretch the back and centralize the pain that was running down my legs to the lower back, which help speed up the healing process.
If you are suffering from severe lower back pain that runs down your buttocks, legs and even all the way to your toes, then chances are that you are suffering from sciatica.
If you don't know what that is, it is pain from your sciatic nerve being pinched, damaged or having pressure placed on it from several different sources.
Once I discovered that my lower back pain was due to a pinched sciatic nerve I began to look for ways to fix my sciatica by first understanding what the nerve was and where it was located in my body.
The sciatic nerve is longest nerve in your body, it begins in the lower spinal cord and extends through the vertebrae and discs of the lower spinal cord down through the buttock down the legs all the way to your toes, this why your toes sometimes tingle or feel numb as well when get severe sciatica.
Now let us look at some of the things that cause sciatic nerve damage and pain:
Once I began the self treatments that I found in an e-book called "Sciatica Self Care" I found that I relieve the pain faster and keep it from recurring in the future.
On some occasions I found that to fix my sciatica required a chiropractor to realign the spine to relieve the pressure on the nerve then, with the proper exercises I could keep the spine in alignment and prevent the sciatica from returning.
To start with for many years I use to use a heating pad to try and relieve the pain but, once I removed the heat the pain was still there just as bad or some times, even worse.
Then I found out that, to fix my sciatica, I should have been using ice packs for twenty minutes every one to two hours (this helped way more than the heat) and followed up with exercises designed to stretch the back and centralize the pain that was running down my legs to the lower back, which help speed up the healing process.
If you are suffering from severe lower back pain that runs down your buttocks, legs and even all the way to your toes, then chances are that you are suffering from sciatica.
If you don't know what that is, it is pain from your sciatic nerve being pinched, damaged or having pressure placed on it from several different sources.
Once I discovered that my lower back pain was due to a pinched sciatic nerve I began to look for ways to fix my sciatica by first understanding what the nerve was and where it was located in my body.
The sciatic nerve is longest nerve in your body, it begins in the lower spinal cord and extends through the vertebrae and discs of the lower spinal cord down through the buttock down the legs all the way to your toes, this why your toes sometimes tingle or feel numb as well when get severe sciatica.
Now let us look at some of the things that cause sciatic nerve damage and pain:
- improper lifting of heavy objects (this is the leading cause of the nerve damage)
- deterioration of the spinal cord due to aging
- pinching of the nerve due spinal cord injury such as, herniated or crushed discs
- degenerative disc disease
- pressure on the nerve from spasms, or swelling due to a damaged Piriformis muscle (this muscle is narrow and attaches at the lower spine runs down the butt and attaches to the thigh bone, the sciatic nerve runs under this muscle) this commonly known as Piriformis Syndrome
- growing tumors on the spine in the area of the nerve placing pressure on it
- a misaligned spinal cord
Once I began the self treatments that I found in an e-book called "Sciatica Self Care" I found that I relieve the pain faster and keep it from recurring in the future.
On some occasions I found that to fix my sciatica required a chiropractor to realign the spine to relieve the pressure on the nerve then, with the proper exercises I could keep the spine in alignment and prevent the sciatica from returning.