Lower Back and Buttocks PainLower back and buttocks pain is a common description associated with numerous sciatica syndromes. The lower back and buttocks are areas of great strength and the muscles that reside there are virtually always in use. When pain comes to visit these anatomical regions, the agony can be so great that the patient is literally incapacitated.
The lumbar and sacral spines work closely with the surrounding muscles to provide our very form as humans. Our upright
posture
is the result of millions of years of targeted evolution and the muscles in the lower back and buttocks are the very same structures which have facilitated this wonderful development. These vital muscles are working almost non stop to provide us with the standing and seated postures we use to perform the great variety of tasks which are expected of us in our daily lives. It is crucial to realize the structural integrity of this spinal area has been honed over millennia, providing humans with balance, poise, strength and endurance. The lumbar spine has recently earned the reputation as a weak and injury prone region, but the reality of the situation is actually quite the opposite…
Sciatica is known to originate in the lower back and deeply affect the large muscles in the buttocks. These gluteal muscles are so strong and yet when sciatica strikes, most patients have difficulty even standing up.
Sciatic nerve pain
is most commonly blamed on some abnormal spinal condition, such as a
herniated disc
or spinal
osteoarthritis.
While these causations can certainly create pain in some people, they are typically asymptomatic and coincidental to the experienced symptoms. This is obvious when specific testing is accomplished to determine the actual nature of most
sciatic nerve
complaints. Sciatica generally affects many patients in a far more wide spread pattern than could be produced from the typically diagnosed spinal sources. Additionally, many patients experience muscle spasms and other deep tissue pain not normally associated with a spinal causation. Despite these inconsistencies, doctors continue to diagnose sciatica due to a spinal source, simply because there exists some radicular pain which radiates into the legs. Their limited scope sees neurological pain as an indicator of nerve root compression (pinched nerve) and no other explanation is even considered… Ischemia Lower Back and Buttocks PainThe enlightened approach to back care understands that ischemia is the logical source of most sciatica conditions. Ischemia will affect the nerve tissue, causing the variable symptomology associated with sciatica, as well as the muscular spasms and other soft tissue pains not easily explained from a diagnosed spinal source. Ischemia can be created by a structural condition or disease process, but is most often the direct result of the interaction between the mind and body. That’s right, psychosomatic sciatica does exist and is in fact, the most prevalent form of nerve pain in existence today. Being that the condition is so frequently misdiagnosed, it is no surprise that the majority of treatment options for chronic sciatic nerve pain demonstrate such poor statistics for actually curing the symptoms.Lower Back and Buttocks Pain AdviceMy earliest back pain experiences hit me in these locations the hardest. Yes, I did suffer radiating leg pain starting at the age of 16, but the really agonizing and disturbing sensations were definitely in my lower back and rear pelvis. Specifically, I felt as if there was some painful force pushing my pelvis forward, as if my spine were trying to escape out the front of my body. This pressure and pain destroyed my posture and created a very noticeable lordosis condition in my lumbar spine. The muscles were strained so much that I completely lost the natural curvature in my lower back! Although this symptom was eventually relieved, it recurred often, especially during the first 12 years of my back pain journey.Lower back pain is no fun and pain in the buttocks is… well… a real pain in the butt… literally! This is no laughing matter. I understand the discomfort of severe pain in the lowest spinal regions. This syndrome makes normal movement impossible and drains the strength from your entire lower body... Pure torture. Lower Back and Buttocks Pain to Sciatica 12/2/08 Revised 7/25/11 |
Sensei Adam Rostocki
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