Sciatica Pain Management

Sciatica pain management is an unfortunate way of life for many patients affected by the ravages of sciatic nerve pain. Managing pain is fine if there is no option for a real cure, but this is rarely the case with the majority of back and leg pain conditions. However, many patients achieve very poor results from traditional and complementary medical treatments and simply accept that their life will entail an ongoing battle with sciatica symptoms. It is these patients who are enslaved into long term programs of symptomatic treatment, which do little except slightly reduce the agony of their back pain.

Sciatica Pain Management Specialty

Pain management is an up and coming medical specialty which is both extremely in-demand and ultra profitable. Doctors are sternly warned during their education process NOT to treat the symptoms of any injury or disease as a separate condition, but it seems that pain specialists must have missed this valuable lesson. Instead of even attempting to resolve the underlying causation of dorsopathy, pain specialists instead simply ignore it and provide pharmaceutical relief for the pain and related neurological symptoms. Treatment might come in the way of epidural injections or pills, but the bottom line treatment offered by these care providers are DRUGS.

Sciatica Pain Management Drugs

Sciatica drugs sometimes consist of anti-inflammatory medicines and muscle relaxants, but mostly focus on pain relief. There are an ever growing number of drugs used to treat sciatica pain and every one has potentially dangerous known and unknown side effects. Many of these powerful pills also demonstrate an inherent risk of dependency which can cause far worse problems for any addicted patient. Drugs are the worst possible solution for ongoing chronic sciatica, yet they are the most common treatment modality. Doctors love to give them out, since they make a day at the office so much easier… No thinking, no responsibility, just hand out the drugs and hope for the best. If there is a problem, let the pharmaceutical company which makes the drugs sort it out… This is a completely unacceptable attitude, but is not as rare as you might think within the medical professions…

Alternative Sciatica Pain Management

There are other forms of pain management which are also symptomatic modalities, yet maintain far less risk than long term drug use. Some of the best of these methods are also all natural holistic therapies, such as acupuncture and exercise.

Chiropractic is often used for pain relief, although the goal of the treatment should be to accomplish more than just day to day symptom management… TENS is another typical pain reliever, although there is considerable speculation that any positive effects of the treatment might be purely due to the placebo effect in many patients.

Advice on Sciatica Pain Management

Please, no hate mail from doctors on this article! If you are doing your job correctly, this article is not meant to describe you in the least. I have nothing but respect for health care workers of every healing art who perform their jobs with ethics and dignity. This article is directed at all the doctors who have simply allowed $$$ to get in the way of proper patient care. Maybe they have simply given up hope, since so many of their trained treatment modalities are virtually useless against stubborn back pain. I would not be surprised if this were indeed the case…

For all you sciatica patients, I recommend trying to find a real cure instead of acquiescing to a life of pain management. It is never too late to find permanent relief. Look at me… It took me 18 long years of the worst possible suffering to finally become pain free. Of course I would have loved to have found a cure sooner, but regardless I can tell you one thing FOR SURE…

BEING PAIN FREE IS WORTH THE WAIT!!!

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8/7/08 Revised 12/13/09