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Sciatica Tingling
Sciatica Tingling DiagnosisMost of the time, tingling is blamed on some spinal structure compressing one of the nerve roots which eventually make up the sciatic nerve. This is possible, but is diagnosed far more often than it actually occurs. The most common diagnoses include a herniated disc, spinal stenosis or foraminal stenosis. These are all conditions which can occur, but are mostly simply scapegoats on which chronic lower back pain is generally blamed. Far more common is the creation of tingling and other disturbing sciatic nerve symptoms by the epidemic condition of ischemia.Sciatica Tingling RealityTingling is most often the result of decreased oxygenation to an anatomical region. This is demonstrated when you sleep in a strange position or sit in one place for too long. This cuts off the supply of blood to a given body part, causing it to lose all feeling. The immediate result is numbness, followed by that familiar pins and needles sensation as the nerve tissue is reawakened by the resumed circulation provided by movement. This is exactly the process which affects the sciatic nerve when blood flow is reduced even a slight amount.Ischemia of the sciatic nerve will cause pain, tingling, numbness or weakness depending on the duration and severity of oxygen deprivation. However, this process is not normally structural or due to position, but instead is a purposeful and regulated process of the subconscious mind. There is no doubt that psychosomatic sciatica pain is the most common variety, which also explains why most medical treatments offer such poor curative results. After all, they are targeting a suspected structural cause, while all along, the actual symptoms are being created by a psycho-emotional process. Sciatica Tingling AdviceI know tingling is highly upsetting, especially when it affects large regions of the lower body. Remember, most patients have tingling in a large area or several areas, which virtually rules out any singular spinal causation. This makes the majority of suspected anatomical causes null and void. However, this logic does not permeate very deeply into the unenlightened back pain industry, since care providers continue to misdiagnose patients by blaming sciatica symptoms on mostly innocent and coincidental spinal scapegoat conditions.Think about why tingling occurs normally, as if you sat on your foot for an hour. It is simple ischemia. This is the reality of most sciatica syndromes, nothing more… nothing less… 7/2/08 Revised 12/13/09
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