Sciatic Nerve Pain Treatment & Relief Ireland

Sciatic Nerve Pain

If you are one of the many people who suffer from sciatic nerve pain, you know how debilitating it can be.

The sciatic nerve is the largest and longest nerve in the body, and when it is compressed or irritated, it can cause a lot of pain.

If you are looking for relief from your sciatic nerve pain, physical therapy and chiropractic treatments may help.

In this blog post, we will discuss the treatments that our clinic offers to help relieve sciatic nerve pain.

What Is The Sciatic Nerve?

The sciatic nerve is the largest in the human body. It is formed through the fusion of five nerves in the lower spine. It passes through gluteal muscles deep in the buttock and down the back of the thigh to the heel of the foot. The sciatic nerve has a crucial vital function in connecting the brain and spinal cord with the muscles and skin of the entire leg and foot.

What Is Sciatica Nerve Pain?

Sciatica is a type of pinched nerve in the lumbar back. The pain people feel starts from one or more roots in the lumbar back and sacral spine.

Sciatic pain is any pain and neurological symptom that comes from the sciatic nerve. The symptoms of sciatica are typically felt anywhere along the leg.

What You Need to Know About Sciatica Symptoms

If you are suffering from sciatica, this could be due to the nerve being irritated, inflamed, or compressed. Several issues within the lower back can result in sciatica. Sciatica is a type of pinched nerve; this means that the pain originates from the lumbar and sacral nerve roots.

What Causes Sciatic Nerve Pain?

Any physical force that is placed on the nerve can result in symptoms. This is a result of the common conditions:

• Herniated discs. A disc in the lower back may herniate or bulge, irritating, and compression of the root.
• Stenosis. Stenosis is the narrowing of the intervertebral opening through which the sciatic nerve roots travel. When you have stenosis, this may result in compression, which irritates it and results in pain. Additionally, degeneration of the inter-vertebral openings could result in changes in the spine, such as thickening of facet joint capsules and ligaments, which may also directly compress the sciatic nerve.
• Instability. Instability occurs when a vertebral segment when a vertebra slips over the one below it, vertebral defects, or complete dislocation of one or more vertebrae may directly compress the nerve root(s).

In rare occasions, tumors, cysts, infection, or abscesses in the lower spine or pelvic region may compress the root resulting in pain.

Seek urgent medical care (GP, A&E, or call 112/999) if you have loss of bladder or bowel control, numbness around the groin or buttocks, progressive leg or arm weakness, or pain with fever, unexplained weight loss, chest pain or breathlessness.

Treatment Options For Sciatic Nerve Pain 

At Dublin Chiropractic & Physiotherapy we plan treatment for sciatic nerve pain around your assessment. We use a combination of physical therapy, chiropractic techniques, laser therapy or light therapy, and shockwave therapy to help with pain, tightness, weakness, numbness and tingling, and to improve strength.

Physical Therapy For Sciatic Nerve Pain

At Dublin & Chiropractic, our physiotherapy for sciatic nerve pain uses a combination of therapies, often including manual therapy such as massage and joint mobilisation.

Benefits Of Physical Therapy For Sciatic Nerve Pain

Physical therapy may help relieve symptoms. Goals may include:

• Reduce pain.
• Restore mobility and flexibility.
• Restore strength and endurance of the muscles of the back and lower limbs.
• Reduce muscle tension.
• Reduce numbness and tingling.

Other therapies that we may use include laser therapy, shockwave therapy, and graded exercise programs. Our goal is to help you get relief from your sciatica symptoms so that you can return to your normal activities.

Chiropractic Care For Sciatic Nerve Pain

Our chiropractors also offer treatments to help relieve sciatic nerve pain and low back pain. We often use spinal adjustments and manipulations, aimed at improving movement in the spine.

Spinal Decompression For Sciatic Nerve Pain

Spinal decompression uses a gentle, controlled pull on the lower back. The research on traction for back pain and sciatica is limited, and clinical guidelines don’t recommend it as a routine treatment. We only use it as an optional addition to an exercise-based plan, review it at the sixth visit, and stop if it isn’t helping. Decompression is generally well tolerated. Side effects are usually mild and short-lived, such as temporary soreness. It isn’t suitable for everyone — see who shouldn’t have it.

Laser Therapy For Sciatic Nerve Pain

Laser therapy uses light applied to the skin. The evidence for laser in sciatica is limited, and results vary.

Shockwave Therapy For Sciatic Nerve Pain

Shockwave therapy delivers sound waves through a probe held against the skin. There is little research on shockwave for sciatica, and results vary.

Visit us in Dun Laoghaire, Dublin Ireland

Our physical therapy & other services extend throughout Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown including Blackrock, Cherrywood, Stillorgan, Rathfarnham, Shankill, Cabinteely, Foxrock, Clonskeagh, and Killiney.

Our office is located just outside of the center of Dun Laoghaire and is between Deansgrange and Monkstown. You can find our building entrance on Lower Mounttown Road, across from Woodland Park. We are a 30-second walk from Dublin Bus stop 2031 which is outside of Mccormick’s Pub.

Book An Appointment Today In Dublin, Ireland 

Are you in pain?

We’re Dublin Chiropractic & Physiotherapy, a chiropractic and physiotherapy clinic in Monkstown, Co. Dublin.

Request an appointment today by clicking the link below or calling us at(01) 575 2623.

References 

[1] https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1144130-overview 

[2] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jor.23186