Sciatica

Sciatica Treatment

Our sciatica treatment in Orange County starts with a detailed evaluation. We often see multiple causative factors for sciatica. Sometimes sciatica treatment centers may overlook causative factors.

Underlying conditions causing sciatica come before pain. Malfunctions in your spine and elsewhere are compensations your body uses to minimize sciatic nerve irritation. Compensations may include: pelvic torque, vertebral shift, muscular imbalance, brain function compensations, or a shift in muscle tone. Triggers could fall into the categories of strain, allergic responses, or emotional stress causing musculoskeletal changes.

Few sciatica specialists evaluate all these compensations affecting your spine and nervous system at the core of your sciatica.

Sciatica Specialists

Sciatica specialists treat the symptom. They may try to numb it, cut around it with surgery, or block it with some powerful chemical agents. They may use nerve block injections or an anti inflammatory epidural (putting a needle into your spine to deliver the medicine). These are some of the sciatica treatments.

None of those sciatica treatments do anything about the underlying compensations that started before the pain. Why not? Because it doesn’t change their treatment of sciatica. So, unfortunately, that which brought about your sciatica in the first place is not even considered. You could get some immediate relief, but, there is never a guarantee that the relief will be lasting.

The reason your sciatica might come back is because unresolved underlying conditions may still present after the treatment. Your body still responds to those conditions when they are not addressed. The same compensations you had before the sciatica treatment can bring you back to the pain. The compensations are responses to the underlying factors leading to sciatica. If they aren’t addressed, they may come back.

Sciatica Treatment Options

The core of your condition—your unique altered physiology which caused your sciatica in the first place—must be investigated. Otherwise, sciatica treatment will only be for relatively temporary relief. Our model of treatment is not meant to kill pain, but to correct function. The focus of a chiropractor for sciatica is to undo the reasons your sciatica came about.

You have options. If you want the epidural first, read every word of the “informed consent” document you sign before the surgical procedure. What is the risk from that epidural procedure?

Our investigation into the causes of your sciatica will reveal those things holding back your own healing potential. It’s safe and gentle, just what you need for lasting pain relief.

Last Resort for Sciatica Treatment Before Surgery

Do you have sciatica for more than 3 months? Have you already tried steroids, narcotic drugs, or addictive opioid drugs? Are you going to give the chiropractor, or natural medicine “a try” as your last hope before an epidural or surgery?

Let’s make sure you’re thinking clearly. If you think you will get immediate pain relief after 2 visits to a chiropractor, I’ve got news for you: It doesn’t work that easily. You’re mixing-up two ideas. One is your attempt to kill pain with powerful, fast-acting chemical drugs. The other is a process of rebuilding at the chiropractor’s. Those are completely different paths to take. One is an event, the other is a process. Removing your body’s dysfunctional compensations accumulating over all this time is a step by step process. To get your body normally functioning again, takes repetition.

Your body uses a lot of effort to stop you in your tracks. It’s trying to survive by not letting you do anything, and right now it is stopping your movement. Undoing that is very different than temporarily cutting off the pain. Consider all the time you’ve already spent taking prescriptions. They were supposed to be quick fixes, but they didn’t help you! Therefore, you can NOT put a 2 visit limit on the chiropractor.

Only if you really want to get better

Would you quit after 2 visits so that you could say “I’ve done everything; I even went to the chiropractor?” I hope that’s not your plan. You would have never honestly “tried the chiropractor,” if you wouldn’t even follow his directions. Going for just 2 visits is a plan for failure. If this is what you would plan to do, don’t call my office. You cannot expect a 2 day cure. It is unrealistic, and it is a total waste of the chiropractor’s effort. By doing this, you would outsmart your own chance of healing, and sabotage your own chance for recovery.

The right integrative chiropractor can correct the causes. Call us to experience our powerful method. Allow your healing potential to re-ignite within you, and set you free of pain.