Our sciatica treatment center focuses on the underlying causes of sciatica. The sciatic nerve goes from your lower back into your buttocks and the back of your thighs.
Sciatica Treatment
Sciatica treatment in Orange County starts with a detailed evaluation. We often see multiple factors causing sciatica, which some sciatica treatment centers may overlook.
Underlying conditions causing sciatica come before pain. Your body compensates, trying 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 of these compensations at the core of your sciatica.
Sciatica Specialists
Sciatica specialists treat the pain. They may try nerve block injections, or an anti inflammatory epidural (putting a needle into your spine to deliver the medicine). These are some conventional sciatica treatments.
None of those sciatica treatments do anything about the underlying compensations that started before the pain. So, unfortunately, that which brought about your sciatica in the first place is not generally considered. The treatment could give 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 unchanged conditions when they are not addressed. The same compensations you had before the sciatica treatment can bring you back to the pain.
Sciatica Treatment Options
The core of your condition 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 an 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 relief.
Is a chiropractor for sciatica your last resort before surgery?
Do you have sciatica for more than 3 months? Have you already tried steroids, or addictive opioid drugs? Are you going to give the chiropractor, or natural medicine “a try” as your last hope before your scheduled 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 suppressing 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 us. You cannot expect a 2 day cure. It is unrealistic, and it is a total waste of the chiropractor’s effort. Why outsmart your own chance of healing, and sabotage your own chance for recovery?
The right gentle chiropractor can correct the causes. Call us to experience our powerful method. Allow your healing potential to re-ignite within you, to be free of pain.