Painful Sciatic Nerve

A painful sciatic nerve can be a real misery to deal with, since this structure is directly responsible for providing sensory and motor abilities for almost the entire lower body region. Sciatic nerve pain can be widespread, all consuming and extremely functionally limiting for any affected patient…

Painful Sciatic Nerve Conditions

Many patients are under the impression that their sciatica is caused by a pinched sciatic nerve. The sciatic nerve can be pinched during some muscular issues, such as piriformis syndrome, but can not EVER be compressed by a spinal source, such as a herniated disc. This is because the sciatic nerve does not even extend up the body high enough to meet the spine AT ALL. When a doctor makes the overly simplified diagnosis of a disc or bone spur pinching the sciatic nerve, what they actually mean to say is that one of the spinal nerve roots, which eventually meet to form the sciatica nerve, is impinged upon… NOT the sciatic nerve itself, since this is anatomically impossible!

Painful Sciatic Nerve from Ischemia

Spinal pinched nerves account for some cases of short term sciatica symptoms. However, most of the structural issues will resolve on their own or with appropriate medical treatment. Non-spinal structural issues, such as sacroiliac joint pain or piriformis pain also make up a tiny percentage of sciatic sufferers. However, the most common cause of all sciatic nerve symptoms, and especially chronic sciatica syndromes, is simple regional ischemia.

Neurological oxygen deprivation is a very painful event to endure and may continue unchecked for many years. This is especially true for ischemia enacted by a psychosomatic process. This type of subtle emotional causation is rarely correctly diagnosed and typically sets the stage for years’ worth of unsuccessful treatment attempts…

Painful Sciatic Nerve Advice

I suffered terribly with a variety of back pain conditions, including variable sciatica, for 18 long years. I did everything possible to treat these terrible tormentors, but had no success in beating the pain. I was ready to give up and really thought long and hard about undergoing surgery in the hopes of ending my pain. This was when I finally came across the work of Dr. John Sarno and found his ideas to be both highly logical and deeply personally applicable to my own story. I tried his approach and found it to be the best medical method I had ever seen. My pain disappeared quickly and has remained gone for years. I am so thankful that I opened my mind enough to learn and accept the truth about most back pain conditions. I urge patients who have not found lasting relief to consider the possibility that their pain is not what it might at first appear to be. Learning the facts about sciatica will help you to decide this for yourself.

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6/16/09 Revised 12/13/09