Sciatica Muscle Pain

Sciatica muscle pain is one of the most common patient complaints reported to care providers in association with a back and leg ache syndrome. Most sciatica sufferers must endure widespread muscular pain in the legs, buttocks, lower back and possibly other areas, including the groin, hips and feet. Muscle pain comes in a great number of symptomatic varieties, including burning pain, dull pain, sharp pain and the dreaded sciatica muscle spasm. This can be one of the worst possible symptomatic expressions, particularly when spasms are continuous and uncontrollable.

What is Sciatica Muscle Pain?

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Muscle pain is discomfort which exists within the major muscles of the lower body anatomy. It is rare for these pains to be sourced by any problem with the muscle itself. Instead, sciatica due to actual spinal causations will usually affect muscles through the nerves which innervate them with life energy. In non-spinal cases, the root source of muscular pain is virtually always regional ischemia, since this process will attack the structural integrity of nerves and muscles alike in a specific affected area. In short, muscle pain is experienced in the muscles, ligaments and/or tendons of the lower body, but is almost never caused by injury or degeneration of the muscular tissue itself…

Sciatica Muscle Pain Diagnosis

Most often, when sciatica patients report muscular pain, the doctor will do a variety of tests and will often order a spinal MRI if a structural issue is suspected. Every nerve root in the spine corresponds to a specific set of bodily muscles, so the doctor will look for a connection between the actual symptoms experienced and any irregularity located at the corresponding level. In sciatica sufferers, the levels most commonly involved are L4, L5 and S1, which are also the most typical places for spinal osteoarthritis and various disc pathologies, such as herniated discs and degenerative disc disease. In most cases, structural abnormalities will be found in the lumbar or lumbosacral spine, regardless of whether the person has pain or not. In fact, abnormalities are virtually universal here and are most often blamed for causing symptoms when they rarely actually do anything of consequence… Ironically, sometimes structural issues are truly responsible for sourcing sciatica, but the problem exists it the cervical spine and often goes unnoticed. Spinal stenosis in the neck can cause widespread symptomatic expressions and many cases are never found, but instead the pain is blamed on coincidental and innocent lumbar abnormalities… Of course, oxygen deprivation is another of the diagnostic nightmares, causing a great number of pain patterns and rarely being correctly diagnosed.

Sciatica Muscle Pain and Fibromyalgia

Muscle pain can also be diagnosed as fibromyalgia. This is one of the worst inventions of the modern rheumatology industry and has doomed so many (mostly women) to suffer endlessly due to pure care provider ignorance. Fibromyalgia is certainly often a severe ischemia syndrome in which the causative elements have grown beyond the normal extent and have taken over almost the entire anatomy. Medical treatment has proven to be useless and alternative treatments work for some, but not others. Knowledge therapy has proven itself to be a cure for this horrific fate in a great number of patients and earns my recommendation, since I have witnessed its effectiveness in a vast number of patients.

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Sciatica Muscle Pain to Sciatica
8/3/10 Revised 7/25/11

THIS ARTICLE BY:
Sensei Adam Rostocki

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