How Chiropractic Care Can Help Alleviate Sciatica

If you’ve ever experienced sciatica pain, you know how excruciating and debilitating it can be. 

Sciatica is more common than you think, and it affects more than 3 million people per year in the United States.

Typically affecting those aged 40 and over, it is also found in young adults starting around age 19.

Those who are overweight are also more likely to experience sciatica pain as well. If you’re struggling to lose weight, read our latest article, “Looking to lose weight in the new year?” to see how we can help!

So when you’ve had a sciatica flare-up or if you experience chronic sciatica pain, how do you manage it? Are you constantly taking pain relievers, massaging, and stretching, hoping for a little bit of relief? 

It’s time to stop that train of masking the symptoms, and it’s time to find the best way to heal and relieve sciatica pain. 

How? Through chiropractic care! 

In order to learn how chiropractic care can help you live a more comfortable and pain-free life, let’s take a look at what sciatica really is and how it affects our entire body. 

What Really Happens With Sciatica Pain

Sciatica isn’t just one thing; it’s a culmination of systems stemming from irritation or pressure on the sciatic nerve. 

The sciatic nerve is the longest nerve in the body. When it’s pinched or squeezed, it can cause a myriad of issues. 

If you’ve got sciatica issues, you’ll commonly feel them in the legs, lower back, buttocks, hips, and feet. 

Symptoms typically include:

• Pain
• Tingling
• Burning Sensations
• Numbness
• Weakness

The pain can go from mildly irritating to completely debilitating depending on how and where the nerve is being pinched or irritated. 

You can experience trouble standing and walking due to numbness and weakness, along with back pain.

Sciatica pain is not something you want to mask with some medication in hopes it goes away. Sciatica pain can impact your daily life, and we have a way to help eliminate it. 

Sciatica Relief with Chiropractic Care

Chiropractic care aims to balance and align the spine and nervous system. When either of those are compromised, you can experience physical and mental issues. 

It’s a chiropractor’s job to identify the issues and address them through various techniques like corrective care, including adjustments, massage therapy, hot and cold therapy, electric stimulation, and even acupuncture. 

No body is the same, and nobody experiences sciatica pain the same way. Your chiropractor will assess your issues and work to decrease inflammation, decrease irritation and pressure on the sciatic nerve and rebalance and align the body so that you finally get the relief you need. 

Schedule An Appointment at The Bluffs

Get relief sooner and heal faster with corrective care from The Bluffs Chiropractic in Fenton, MO. 

We’ve been serving Fenton and the greater St. Louis area for more than 15 years, and we offer treatments and therapies for people of all ages. 

Let’s work together to align your body, alleviate your sciatica pain, and help you live a more comfortable and happy life. 

Schedule an appointment today!