Relieve Your Sciatica: Expert Treatment in Portland & Salem
Your sciatic nerve, originating from your lumbar spine, branches into an intricate network of smaller nerves that traverse through your hips, buttocks, and down your legs. This complex nerve system plays a pivotal role in feeling and controlling your lower body. Sciatica often manifests with symptoms such as numbness, tingling, burning sensations, and sharp shooting pains. Dr. Michael LoGiudice and the distinguished medical team at Interstate Medical Group are well-versed in treating sciatica – the potentially incapacitating pain that courses along the sciatic nerve. If you seek effective sciatica treatment in Portland and Salem, Oregon, seize the opportunity to request an appointment online or reach out to our office for a free consultation.
Unmasking the Causes of Sciatica and Sciatic Nerve Pain
While sciatica might commence as nagging lower back pain, it can swiftly escalate into incapacitating agony, radiating down your legs, and even extending to your calf. This condition arises when the sciatic nerve faces compression or impingement at its spinal root. Some of the leading causes of sciatic nerve pain and impingement encompass:
Deciphering the Nature of Sciatica Pain
The hallmark of sciatica pain is an intense shooting sensation that emanates from your lower back, traverses your buttock, courses through the back of your thigh, and extends to your calf. This pain, sometimes described as a burning feeling, can vary from a persistent ache to a sharp, electric-like shock. While sciatic nerve pain might strike at isolated points along the nerve’s path, it often follows a continuous trajectory. Prolonged sitting or standing, reaching, sneezing, and minor movements can trigger or exacerbate this discomfort.
Navigating Sciatica Treatment: A Multifaceted Approach
Sciatic nerve pain may begin subtly, but it has the potential to escalate over time, becoming chronic if unattended. However, the silver lining lies in chiropractic intervention. Our approach, combining top-tier chiropractic care, deep tissue sciatic massage, and tailored stretching exercises within physical therapy, yields promising results. Traction therapy and flexion-distraction therapy may also find application, decompressing the spine and alleviating pressure from bulging discs. These evidence-backed sciatica treatment techniques are proven to alleviate pain, bolster recovery, and foster positive outcomes for many sciatica patients.
If you seek the finest chiropractor for sciatica, we invite you to connect with our Portland or Salem offices today. We accept most major health insurance plans and collaboratively work with patients to effectively address sciatica concerns.
Patients Reviews
Best chiropractic place in the city. I have issues with my back and have been trying to find a good chiropractor and every place always looks shady and gross. This place looks amazing and the people there are very welcoming! Definitely recommend. 5 STARS!
I was in a car accident and was suffering from severe back and neck pain so I scheduled an appointment with Pacific Chiropractic & Wellness Center. From my first appointment, I met a team of true professionals. Staff was welcoming and very knowledgeable. They developed a plan that worked with my schedule which included adjustments, massage therapy and …
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I was surprised by an outstanding service they have here. They helped me all the way from the start to the finish. And after the treatment was I over I received a thank you letter with gift card. That’s amazing. Oh and should I mention my neck pain was gone.
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