Bottom Line: Have you ever immediately stopped in your tracks or fallen to your knees because of a sudden onset of sciatica pain? Perhaps your low back “locked-up” and pain shot down your leg after a simple sneeze or cough or you bent over to pick something up. Talk about one of the most unwelcome…
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Bottom Line:As we discuss how to prevent sciatica pain with our sciatica patients, we often notice that many of them will make the comment that they don’t know how they hurt their back when they start receiving treatment. And that’s a completely logical statement to make. It’s easy to understand how lifting a heavy object…
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Bottom Line:Here’s something that might surprise you as you dive into the top causes of sciatica. Sciatica is not a condition, disorder, or diagnosis in and of itself. Sciatica pain can be described as dull, achy, sharp, or shooting pain in the lower back and hip, buttock, and leg on one side of the body.…
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Bottom Line:Nearly everyone will have back pain at some point in their life, but with sciatica — well, you’ll know something is different right away!So, what is sciatica? – What is sciatica pain like?Sciatica really describes a set of symptoms rather than a condition. The most common symptom can be described as pain that begins…
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Bottom Line:Let’s dive right into what you need to know about sciatica. To understand what sciatica is, it helps to think of sciatica more as a set of symptoms than a condition. When you hear someone say they “have sciatica,” what they have is pain, numbness, or tingling that starts in their low back or…
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