Sciatica Treatment in Madison, AL — Causes, Symptoms & Chiropractic Care

How’s it going everyone? Dr. Bourgeois with Spine Care Chiropractic here. Today I

wanted to talk about a specific topic that you’ve probably heard of. Maybe

you’re diagnosed with it or maybe you’ve heard of one of your loved ones have

complained about this in the past and that is sciatica. To understand what

sciatica is, we need to first understand what that means, where it comes from. So

sciatica is referred to the sciatic nerve. This

is your lower back. You’ve got your spine, your pelvis, and your tailbone

here. This bundle that you see is your sciatic nerve. And it’s made up of the

nerve roots that exit the spine in the lower back. So, anytime you get some

sort of compression of the nerve roots in this lower back, whether that’s from

your disc, either a bulge or a herniation or the muscles deep inside

this glute that put pressure on this sciatic nerve, that’s what can affect it

and that’s what can cause sciatica. Any sort of numbness and tingling going down

the leg, maybe some weakness or pain in any of the musculature in the leg can

often be attributed to sciatica or compression of the sciatic nerve. Now,

it’s important that we differentiate this from what we call SI joint

dysfunction and lumbar facet dysfunction. Um, a lot of people will

get confused thinking, you know, they have pain around this joint back here

that goes into the side of the hip thinking it’s sciatica when in reality

we need to address the joints inside of this lower back that may not be moving

the way that they should because a lot of the times that is contributing more

to this localized pain up here than true sciatica is. If you think you fall under

to one of these categories or if you think you might have true sciatica, come

on in, do an evaluation. We’ll get down to the root cause of it and really

figure out what’s going on so we can set you up for success later in life.