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Find Leg Pain Relief with Chiropractic Treatment

Find Leg Pain Relief with Chiropractic Treatment

Aug 4, 2016 | leg pain

There many reasons why you might have leg pain. You may have torn a muscle, even blood clots (deep vein thrombosis) can cause pain. However, it’s possible that your leg pain actually stems from your lower back.

You might remember that old song, the one about the thigh bone connected to the hip bone. Well, that’s true. (The song is called “Dem Bones” in case you’re wondering.) Your nerves and tissues are all connected too.  Nothing in your body is independent of anything else.  This means, if you have chronic leg pain, it could be related to your sciatic nerve or a herniated disc. Both of these usually stem from your lower back.

Leg Pain McQuaite ChiropracticHow the Sciatic Nerve Can Relate to Leg Pain

The sciatic nerve is the longest nerve in the body. It runs from the base of your skull, down your back and into your thighs where it sends nerve signals down both legs and into your feet.

If you feel a burning or tingling sensation in one leg, that can be a symptom of sciatica. If you find it painful to sit for long periods, that’s another symptom.

Sciatica can be caused by arthritis in the spine, degenerative disc disease, spinal stenosis or other spinal concerns.

Therapeutic yoga classes can help reduce lower back pain and ease the symptoms of sciatica including leg pain. Chiropractic adjustments can help relieve sciatic pain and get at the source of the problem through x-rays and an individual treatment plan.

How a Herniated Disc Can Cause Leg Pain

Disc troubles go by many names. Herniated, ruptured, slipped and other terms can all relate to back trouble that stem from these round spinal elements that line your spinal column. In some cases they can be out of alignment and pressing on a nerve which triggers leg pain.

When a chiropractic adjustment realigns your spine so that the disc returns to its rightful place, you may feel relief right away.

Like back pain, leg pain symptoms can take many forms. You may feel searing pain or a tingling sensation. Your leg may feel numb or pain may radiate down your leg. The causes of leg pain are best determined by a health checkup and discussion with a medical professional.

If you’re in the Doylestown area, Dr. Jeff McQuaite will discuss your medical history with you, your lifestyle and perform an X-ray to determine the root cause of your pain.

You deserve to feel your best! Why not come in for your free consultation?

 

 

Relief for Your Back Related Leg Pain

Relief for Your Back Related Leg Pain

Oct 13, 2014 | Chiropractic Care, leg pain

Chiropractic Leg PainSlipped discs, spinal stenosis and degenerative discs are three examples of back related pain that you might feel in your legs. Each falls under the category of “sciatica” due to the connection with the longest nerve in your body – the sciatic nerve.

A new study shows a combination of chiropractic care and home exercises can help you find relief for your back related leg pain.

Whether your leg pain tingles, burns or flares up when you move, you want to find relief. Here are three common back troubles that chiropractic care may help.

Slipped or Herniated Discs

There are 23 discs that run the length of your spinal column. When one is damaged and no longer in alignment, it puts pressure on the nerve that lies beneath it. That pressure hurts and leads to pain traveling down your sciatic nerve and into your leg.

You can try some simple forward and backward bends like these to help you find relief as well as chiropractic treatments to realign your spine. Here’s how chiropractic treatments help.

Spinal stenosis

Imagine your spine with the knobby bits at the base of the spinal column. Those are called “facet joints” and as you age, they can enlarge. When they get bigger, they squeeze the nearby nerves and that hurts both in your lower back and in your legs.

Sometimes, you’ll feel relief when you sit in a chair and lean forward. That posture takes some of the pressure off those nerves. Swimming and walking can both help relieve the pain. This is also called radiculopathy.

Degenerative discs

Aging does terrible things to our bodies, one of them is drying up our spinal discs (which before moved about with no trouble in their body of water.) They also become less flexible. The combination leads to degeneration and pain when you move.

Stabilizing exercises like yoga’s “bridge” pose can help. To practice it, lie on the floor on your back. Bend your knees so your feet are flat on the floor and your fingertips could touch your heels if you reached down. Then, raise your behind and lower back off the floor as high as you can, you’ll be balancing on your feet and upper back. Hold the posture for 3-8 seconds and slowly lower back down.

In conjunction with chiropractic care, many exercises can help you find relief from back related leg pain. Are you in the Doylestown area? Give us a call or stop by our office, we’d love to help you.