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Sciatica Relief

Sciatica relief is the main goal of patients whose lives are virtually controlled by their chronic back and leg pain syndromes. Sciatica is often a long term health issue which resists medical treatment and might even worsen with the passage of time.

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Finding Sciatica Relief

In order to find relief from your sciatica pain, it is crucial to achieve an accurate diagnosis of what is causing the symptoms to occur. Most patients who have been to a doctor (or 5 or 10 or 20…) think they have this part covered since their sciatica has been blamed on… (insert diagnosis here). However, regardless of whether you think your symptoms are caused by a herniated disc, degenerative disc disease, osteoarthritis process or whatever, there is a very good chance that you are mistaken…

Misdiagnosis of sciatica is the most common reason why many treatments fail. If a particular therapy is being directed at a causation which has been misidentified as being the primary source of pain, how do you expect that treatment to work? Sure, you might have that (insert diagnosis here) in your spine, but it is likely to only serve as a scapegoat for the symptoms and is actually completely innocent and coincidental to your sciatic nerve pain. A great number of sciatica patients are misdiagnosed, which explains why so few find lasting relief.

Sciatica Relief Riddle

So, how do you know if you have been correctly diagnosed or not? This is the million dollar question… Unfortunately, there is no way of knowing for certain, but here are some indications that your diagnosis is correct…


* Your symptoms are consistent in location and pain pattern.

* You have experienced lasting relief without relapse.

* You have obvious debilitating injury from an identified source.


Now, here are some criteria which might indicate a misdiagnosis:


* Your symptoms change often in pattern, severity and location.

* Your pain has been blamed on typical degenerative disc disease.

* Your pain has been blamed on typical spondylosis (osteoarthritis)

* Your pain has continued long term.

* Your pain has resisted a variety of sciatica treatments.


Sciatica Relief Advice

I know finding true and lasting sciatica pain relief sometimes seems like an impossible task, but I assure you it is not that difficult. You simply need to come to terms with your diagnosis. If you have been properly diagnosed, trust in your physicians to cure you. They know what the problem is, so they should surely know how to cure it, right?

If you still cannot find relief, there is a good chance that you have been misdiagnosed. Don’t be so surprised… It happens to millions of sciatica patients every year. It happened to me for 18 years!!!

Learning the facts about sciatica will help you to better ascertain whether or not your diagnosis is correct in relation to your symptoms. If you have been misdiagnosed, you are most likely suffering from ischemia of the sciatic nerve and possibly of the surrounding muscles, as well. This is the most common reason for ongoing sciatica pain, regardless of any spinal abnormalities which may exist. In order to heal from my pain, I had the daunting task of repudiating the diagnoses I had carried like a heavy burden for those 18 years of torment. It was not easy, especially due to the nocebo effect of the diagnostic process and the common mythologies surrounding perfectly normal and expected spinal degeneration... However, I did it and I am now 100% pain free.

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