Pinched Nerves and Sciatica NYC

Back pain can take many forms, all of which are at least a disruption to your life and at worst a major obstacle to normal living. In many cases, the sciatic nerve has a close relationship with the symptoms that a pain sufferer exhibits, and it’s not uncommon to hear terms like ‘sciatica’ and ‘pinched nerve’ thrown around in connection to the pain. Sciatica is a set of symptoms that are displayed by a patient whose sciatic nerve is being compressed, or ‘pinched’ due any number of factors. At our comprehensive treatment center in NYC, Living Well Medical, we regularly treat patients who have debilitating pain related to a pinched nerve. We bring together a number of non-surgical treatments that include chiropractic adjustment, non-surgical spinal decompression with the DRX-9000 for herniated or bulging spinal discs, pain management with a Medical Doctor, cold laser therapy and physical therapy.

As mentioned above, there are several reasons that a nerve like the sciatic nerve can be pinched and compressed, leading to severe and chronic pain. Perhaps the most common, however, is a herniated or bulging spinal disc as a result of long-term wear or trauma.

When a weakness develops in the fibrous outer wall of a disc, the fluid from the interior of a disc can be forced out into contact with the sciatic nerve causing irritation, inflammation and general pain. This is typically referred to as nerve impingement, and severe nerve impingement of the lumbar nerve roots can cause the symptoms we know of as sciatica.

Sciatica often encompasses problems like leg pain, lower back pain, pain in the buttocks, numbness, tingling and even muscle weakness. Different people will experience different combinations of these symptoms, but the universal aspect is significant pain that makes an active life difficult. That’s where our office in NYC can help patients without the fears that go along with surgery or long-term pain medications.

Specifically intended for treatment of herniated discs and other conditions that cause severe low back pain, non-surgical spinal decompression with the DRX-9000 is an alternative to back surgery that has been safely helping patients stop the pain for years.

The DRX-9000 is a computer-controlled therapeutic device that applies specific amounts of force to targeted areas of the spine (based on where the herniated or bulging disc is located). By placing patients in a harness that helps directs the stretches to the lower back, malfunctioning discs can be ‘pumped’ and made to absorb more nutrients and fluids that will aid them in healing themselves. Because the discs are mostly avascular (having little blood supply), the nutrients are an important part of the healing process. Stretching through the DRX-9000 can also help create a pocket of negative pressure inside of the disc that can draw herniated material back to inside the disc over time. At Living Well Medical in NYC, our chiropractic physician, Dr. Steven Shoshany has been helping patients with his patented spinal decompression protocol for years.

If you suffer with sciatica and the pain of a pinched nerve due to a herniated disc in NYC, call Living Well Medical at 212-645-8151 or visit our website and find out more about non-surgical spinal decompression therapy with the DRX-9000.

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What You Need to Know About Sciatica from www.Spine-Health.com


By: Stephen H. Hochschuler, MD

The term sciatica describes the symptoms of leg pain and possibly tingling, numbness or weakness that travels from the low back through the buttock and down the large sciatic nerve in the back of the leg.

What You Need to Know About Sciatica NYC

The clinical diagnosis of sciatica is referred to as a "radiculopathy", which means simply that a disc has protruded from its normal position in the vertebral column and is putting pressure on the radicular nerve (nerve root) in the lower back, which forms part of the sciatic nerve.


Sciatica Causes

An important thing to understand is that sciatica is a symptom of a problem — of something compressing or irritating the nerve roots that comprise the sciatic nerve — rather than a medical diagnosis or medical disorder in and of itself. This is an important distinction because it is the underlying diagnosis (vs. the symptoms of sciatica) that often needs to be treated in order to relieve sciatic nerve pain.

Sciatica occurs most frequently in people between 30 and 50 years of age. Often a particular event or injury does not cause sciatica, but rather it tends to develop as a result of general wear and tear on the structures of the lower spine.

Sciatica symptoms
For some people, the pain from sciatica can be severe and debilitating. For others, the pain might be infrequent and irritating, but has the potential to get worse.

While sciatica can be very painful, it is rare that permanent nerve damage (tissue damage) will result. Most sciatica pain syndromes result from inflammation and will get better within two weeks to a few months. Also, because the spinal cord is not present in the lower (lumbar) spine, a herniated disc in this area of the anatomy does not present a danger of paralysis.

Sciatica symptoms that may constitute a medical emergency include:
Progressive weakness in the leg
Bladder/bowel incontinence or dysfunction.
Common Causes of Sciatica:

Lumbar herniated disc-see spinal decompression nyc,herniated disc treatment nyc

Spinal stenosis

Degenerative disc disease

Spondylolisthesis
Patients with either of the above symptoms may have cauda equina syndrome and should seek immediate medical attention. In general, patients with complicating factors should contact their doctor if sciatica occurs, including people who: have been diagnosed with cancer; take steroid medication; abuse drugs; have unexplained, significant weight loss; or have HIV.

Sciatica medical definition: radiculopathy

To clarify medical terminology, the term sciatica (often misspelled as ciatica, cyatica or siatica) is often used very broadly to describe any form of pain that radiates into the leg. However, this is not technically correct. True sciatica occurs when the sciatic nerve is pinched or irritated and the pain along the sciatic nerve is caused by this nerve (radicular pain) and is called a radiculopathy. When the pain is referred to the leg from a joint problem (called referred pain), using the term sciatica is not technically correct. This type of referred pain (e.g. from arthritis or other joint problems) is quite common.

Sciatica treatment in Manhattan-visit www.drshoshany.comSciatica nerve pain is caused by a combination of pressure and inflammation on the nerve root, and treatment is centered on relieving both of these factors. Typical sciatica treatment include:

Non-surgical sciatica treatments, which may include one or a combination of medical treatments and alternative (non-medical) treatments, and almost always includes some form of exercise and stretching. The goals of non-surgical sciatica treatment should include both relief of sciatica pain and prevention of future sciatica symptoms.
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The Piriformis is a muscle that often tightens and causes pressure on the Sciatic nerve- The Graston technique is very effective in treating Piriformis syndrome.

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Spinal decompression patients we see at NYC Back Pain Relief Center suffer from "chronic back pain" due to various back related injuries and conditions. Our patients have already seen countless doctors and back specialists in addition to trying multiple types of treatments such as bed rest, over the counter and prescription medications, chiropractic care and physical therapy. I have seen how patients become dependant on Vicodin, Percoset and Oxycontin. These medications do not solve the problem and are habit forming.

Often times our Spinal decompression patients have even undergone back surgery for their back pain caused by herniated discs, degenerative discs, sciatic and spinal stenosis.
They come to us because even after all of the treatments they have tried they are still experiencing pain and want to know how spinal decompression can help them.

If you want to learn more about how this treatment works visit our website and scroll down to the bottom and use the Virtual Decompression application.
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