Practitioner

 Zak.Han

Chinese Acupuncture practitioner,Chinese

exarmy doctor,worked

in army hospital 20 years.He specialises in

  back pain relief

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 Information on Sciatica

Author: Robert Langard

So you have been diagnosed with sciatica and even though your doctor explained to you about the condition, you have come looking for a bit more information on sciatica.

Lets start with the basic question on most peoples mind, what is sciatica? The general term used for pain being felt along the sciatic nerve is sciatica. This pain is usually described by patients as a sharp electric shocking type pain that starts in the buttocks and travels down the back of the thigh and leg. Most often caused by a herniated disk, there are also other causes. When diagnosing sciatica symptoms a MRI scan is most often taken to help with this process. If your MRI shows a herniated disk make sure to get referred to a spine specialist. A spine specialist can look over your X-rays and be able to recommend the proper course of treatment.

Some signs and symptoms of sciatica are:

A cramping sensation of the thigh
Shooting pains from the buttock, down the leg
Tingling, or pins-and-needles sensations in the legs and thighs
A burning sensation in the thigh
Maneuvers such as squatting, coughing or sneezing worsen the sciatica symptoms that the patient is having. The cause of the worsened sciatica symptoms is the jerking motion adding pressure that is being placed around the nerve.
I mentioned earlier that sciatica is not always caused by a herniated or slipped disk. Some other causes of Sciatica could be:

Iliolumbar Syndrome: This is simply inflammation or a tear of the ililumbar ligament. This is the back of your pelvis and it extends from the spine to the iliac crest.

Lumbar Facet Joint Syndrome: The pain coming from the joints in your back with this particular symptom can cause Sciatica like symptoms along with pain and discomfort. Just like the knee and elbow can get inflamed and cause pain, the facet joint is like any other joint in your body and follows these same rules.
Lumbar Spinal Stenosis: This is the narrowing of the spinal canal causing sciatica type symptoms. Disk problems and arthritis of the spine can cause this narrowing.
Piriformis Syndrome: Simply put this is pain caused by the Piriformis muscle that may be in spasm, inflamed, or irritated. Located in you buttock and laying right on top of the sciatic nerve as it exits the spine down your leg. When this muscle is inflamed, irritated or in spasm it will cause pressure on the sciatic nerve causing the sciatica like symptoms.
Sacroiliitis: The joint where your hip meets your spine is called the sacroiliac joint. When your sacroiliac joint becomes inflamed it is known as sacroiliitis. Sciatica type syndromes can be felt due to inflammation caused by arthritis or traumatic injury. Anesthetic injections or anti-inflammatory medications can take away the pain.
Being extremely uncommon in younger patients sciatica can still affect most anyone. Most people who suffer from sciatica are in the age range of thirty to fifty. Most often back injury or over exerting the back will bring on a sudden onset of sciatica.

 Piriformis syndrome is due to piriformis sciatic nerve injury and oppression caused by the side of the main Tuntui pain symptoms.

Piriformis is hip deep in the muscle, from spinabifida ahead, and passed through ischium big hole, which will be divided into Piriformis on the next hole and the hole, the greater trochanter limited. Piriformis was completed in coordination with other major muscle external rotation movements. Sciatic nerve running just under the hole by piriformis passed through the pelvis to the buttocks. Visibility piriformis and the anatomy of the sciatic nerve very close relationship Piriformis by injury or if the piriformis and the sciatic nerve anatomy mutated may lead to the sciatic nerve is being squeezed out of a variety of symptoms which occur.

Piriformis injury caused piriformis syndrome is the main reason, the majority of patients have history of trauma, such as blinking, twisting, leaping standing, squatting and carrying heavy loads, gait and other catch cold. Certain acts such as lower extremity outreach, swing or squatting change when so straight-piriformis lengthening injury piriformis stretch. Piriformis injury, local edema, or spasm, leading to repeated injury piriformis hypertrophy, the sciatic nerve can be directly oppression there piriformis syndrome. Secondly, piriformis and the anatomy of the sciatic nerve relationship mutates and can also lead to oppression or sciatic nerve stimulation produced piriformis syndrome. In addition, as part of gynecological diseases such as ovarian or pelvic inflammatory annex and the sacroiliac joint inflammation also may affect Piriformis affected by piriformis Kong under the sciatic nerve and the corresponding symptoms. So for the female disease patients need to understand whether gynecological inflammatory diseases.

Pain is the main piriformis syndrome performance. Mainly to hip pain, to help the lower extremities radiation, not serious when walking or running for some distance after intense pain, the need to take a rest after running can continue. Patients may feel pain deeper position, diffuse mainly to the lower extremities of the ipsilateral lateral or behind, is also accompanied by some lateral leg numbness, perineal discomfort. Severe pain in the buttocks could be telling signs of "knife-like" or "scorching" for the pain and difficulties legs buckling, knees kneeling reclining, sleep difficulties at night. Excretion, coughing, sneezing, etc. because of increased abdominal pressure can be so channeling of the affected limb pain increased.

Non-surgical treatment of piriformis syndrome, including practices, the partial closure of intramuscular injection, physical therapy, Chinese herbal medicine and acupuncture.

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