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Sciatica Causes

There are multiple sciatica causes which may be responsible for radicular pain and related neurological symptoms. Some of these causes are structural and exist in the spine, while others are psychosomatic and exist in the mind.

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Sciatica Causes / Injury

Any significant trauma to the back might damage some of the spinal structures, causing a variety of painful conditions, including sciatica. Herniated discs might compress a spinal nerve root causing painful symptoms. Vertebral fractures might also influence proper nerve function. While these conditions exist in some patients, they typically either resolve without treatment or will heal with proper medical attention. Injury is seldom a cause of ongoing chronic sciatica. The body is designed to heal when damaged and heal it will�

Sciatica Causes / Degeneration

Degeneration is the term often given to the various processes which are normally experienced due to age and use. The spinal structures degenerate just like every other part of our physical bodies. The vast majority of spinal degeneration is completely normal, expected and asymptomatic. Degenerative disc disease is the most common diagnosis, with spinal osteoarthritis not far behind. Specific diagnoses related to osteoarthritis include bone spur formation often blamed for foraminal stenosis and facet joint syndrome. Spinal stenosis is another common process which occurs naturally, mostly due to advanced age. Most of these conditions are not inherently painful and are rarely the source of any significant discomfort, forget severe chronic back pain.

Sciatica Causes / Ischemia

The most common, yet least diagnosed cause of chronic nerve pain is certainly ischemic sciatica. The harmless, but incredibly painful, oxygen deprivation sciatica process can occur due to disease or injury. However, the majority of patients demonstrate psychosomatic ischemia which is enacted by the subconscious mind. This is the reason why so many sciatic nerve pain syndromes do not respond well to medical or complementary treatment. After all, these therapy modalities assume a structural causation for the pain, while all along, the pain is due to a psycho-emotional process. Most doctors are not adequately trained to deal with these types of mind/body conditions and typically do not even recognize the telltale signs of psychosomatic pain.

Advice Concerning Sciatica Causes

99.9% of sciatica patients with long term pain are under the impression that their symptoms come directly from an injury or degenerative process. About 5% of these people are actually correct. The rest are simply not acknowledging the potential that their pain is due to the interaction between the mind and body. This is a shame, since knowledge therapy can CURE these patients 100%, returning them to full health and function in a matter of weeks.

When the idea of a psychosomatic causation is suggested, most patients are immediately insulted. They obviously do not understand the implications of a psychologically induced pain syndrome and feel as if their pain is being down played. This is completely understandable, but the reality is that psychosomatic pain is 100% real and physical. However, it is caused by an emotional process, not a structural defect or injury.

Basically, the choice is yours� You can hold on to that sciatica scapegoat diagnosis and continue to receive those ineffective treatments year after year or you can wake up and consider the possibility that your pain, like most back pain conditions, has been misdiagnosed. Don�t think this can happen to you? Well, neither did I� That�s why I suffered for 18 years, when the cure I needed all along was available. I just did not know it was there. Well, now I know and I am here to spread the word�

Knowledge therapy. It is the real deal.

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6/28/08 Revised 10/2/08