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Sciatic Nerve Pain
Sciatic nerve pain (otherwise known as sciatica) is an epidemic condition which affects untold numbers of people all around the world.
Sciatica
and general lower back pain are the most common of all serious dorsopathy syndromes and are also the most debilitating, since they involve the very muscles which are directly responsible for allowing us to maintain our normal upright postures as functional human beings. Sciatic Nerve Pain DiagnosisThe sciatic nerve is the largest and most problematic nerve in the human body. When a patient experiences lower back pain, buttocks pain, leg pain or foot pain in combination, they are said to have sciatica. These symptoms generally consist of pain and possibly muscular spasms, accompanied by radiating weakness, numbness or tingling in the affected areas. Sciatica can strike anywhere in the lower body, from the back to the feet and is known as a very diverse symptomatic condition. It is virtually impossible to describe a “typical” case of sciatica, since every patient seems to demonstrate an individual set of symptoms. Worse yet, even these individualized sciatica symptoms might change often within the same patient in severity, location or expression…The diagnosis of sciatica does not tell you much about the nature, severity or causation… It merely describes that there is pain and related nerve conditions in the lower body region. Sciatic Nerve Pain ExplanationUsually, diagnosis will be blamed on some spinal abnormality, such as a herniated disc, degenerative disc disease or spinal osteoarthritic process. This is no surprise, since medical science loves to link structural conditions to painful complaints, despite the overwhelming evidence that these spinal conditions are completely normal, mostly asymptomatic and virtually universal in the lower lumbar region. If spinal causes were indeed to blame, then surely we would all have sciatica, which should present strikingly similar symptoms and worsen as we age. However, this is simply not the case. Most sciatica complaints occur in people during the ages of most responsibility… 30 to 55. These complaints are not as common as spinal degeneration worsens. This is just one of many sciatica facts which supports the idea that most radiculopathy conditions are the direct result of a psychosomatic causation using ischemia as its enforcer.Sciatic Nerve Pain AdviceSciatica is a torturous burden to bear and is known to resist treatment from many possible healing arts. All these therapies are well designed and completely appropriate to successfully treat the conditions for which they are indicated. Why then do they rarely work to cure sciatica pain? This is the question which has plagued doctors and patients alike for generations...However, the answer is simple and readily available for those who do some independent research away from the nocebo influence of the back pain industry’s money making machine… Sciatica is generally a harmless but agonizing process caused by mild to moderate
oxygen deprivation
of the lower back and sciatic nerve. Sciatica can be caused by
piriformis syndrome
in perhaps less than 1% of affected patients and some spinal causation in perhaps 5% of affected patients. However, these are typically the patients who undergo treatment and get better… For individuals who suffer year after year with the far more common treatment–resistant variety of radicular pain, the answer to the question, “WHY WON'T MY PAIN GO AWAY?” is obvious…
Misdiagnosis.
7/4/08 Revised 12/13/09
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