Chiropractic

What is sciatica? Sciatica is leg pain caused by a pinched nerve in the lower back. The problem begins in nerve roots located on either side of the lower spine, that then course through the sciatic nerve, which runs the length of each leg from the buttock down to the foot. The leg pain,  "is often worse than the back pain," says William A. Abdu, MD, medical director of the Spine Center at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Usually felt in one leg, the sensation "can be intolerable," says Birgit Ruppert, a physical therapist at the Spine Center. "Some people liken it to the nerve pain you experience [...]

People with leg pain related to back problems had more short-term relief if they received chiropractic care along with exercise and advice, rather than exercise and advice alone, a new study has found. “This combination resulted in advantages in pain reduction, disability, global improvement, satisfaction, medication use and general physical health status after 12 weeks,” he said. Nine months after the treatment ended, patients who received chiropractic therapy were still doing better than the other group in terms of global improvement, medication use and satisfaction, he added. Bronfort said that about four out of five people will develop low back pain [...]