Sciatica Pain - What are the 2 Biggest Questions You Need to Ask?

Do You Know the Answers?

Do you suffer from sciatica pain? Are you someone who wakes in the morning dreading getting out of bed, scared that pain will shoot down your leg. Does sciatica rule your life and stop you from so many activities you would love to do?

Well, there are 2 big questions you need to ask about sciatica. But first...

Sciatica pain is a common and debilitating condition. Yet it is not always diagnosed correctly, leaving many people unaware of what they can do.

The sciatica nerve is a large nerve that runs from the lower back down your leg to the ankle and foot. If irritated anywhere along it path and sciatic pain occurs. The most common site of irritation is your lower back and pelvis.

A common mistake made in sciatica diagnosis is where the pain is. Unless your pain runs down the back of your leg… the pain you are experiencing is not sciatica pain.

Sciatica pain has a definite pattern to it. To have ‘true’ sciatic pain you need irritation to the sciatica nerve – you therefore need to have:

• lower back pain (although this may be minor or possibly non-symptomatic)

• pain traveling down the back of your leg

• pain tends to spasm or may be a gnawing, toothache type pain.

If pain is in the front of your leg, or you just have general lower back and leg pain, you are more than likely not suffering from sciatic pain. This is a lesser problem.

The causes of lower back pain are confusing even at the best of times. What causes you pain is actually different to the mechanisms that create your pain. Confused already?

The ‘true’ causes are the underlying causes of low back pain . The confusion is due to mis-education. The causes are why pain occurs, why you get low back pain or sciatica. This is generally not structural, unless you have had a fall or injury. The true causes are the day to day build of stress... physically and emotionally. However...

The mechanisms that create your sciatic pain are straight forward, and knowing these mechanisms helps you to use the correct sciatica treatment, whether it is sciatica home treatment (self help techniques), sciatica stretching or seeking help for sciatic nerve treatment .

So what are the mechanisms creating sciatic pain?

Lower Back Distortion

When the joints and the muscles surrounding them fail to function correctly, lower back pain occurs. The sciatica nerve is formed by 5 nerve roots (nerves exiting the spine). If one or more joints are disrupted irritation occurs at this level.

Pelvic Distortion

With any lower back pain, or back pain in general, the pelvis distorts. One side moves forward and the opposite moves backwards. This is a protective mechanism, which helps to take pressure off the joints that are irritated – just look at when you limp or your back is tender, your pelvis height changes so it appears as if one leg is shorter… this is pelvic distortion.

As the sciatica nerve runs through the pelvis, if the pelvis distorts it creates nerve tension and the sciatica nerve becomes stretched, creating sciatica pain.

Piriformis Tightness

The most common causes of sciatic pain is the Piriformis. If you do not have lower back pain, and only have sciatic pain, the reason is your Piriformis muscle. The sciatica nerve runs through the muscles fibers of the Piriformis. If the muscle tightens then the nerve is irritated and sciatica pain occurs.

The muscle is tightened from numerous causes – lower back problems, pelvis distortions, over use of the muscles, fatigue and many other factors.

The solutions to your sciatic pain are therefore straight forward. You need to relax the muscles in your pelvis, change the pelvic distortion and also correct any lower back issue. Simple and Easy...

Question 2: Would You Like to Get Rid of Your Sciatica Once and For All... then you must know this first!

The Back Pain Advisor strives to give you valuable and expert advice, tips and information on sciatica pain. Making you the expert in learning to remove all problems relating to your sciatica nerve and sciatic pain - permanently!

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