Sciatica treatment methods

　　Many people experience numbness, needle-like pain in their lower limbs, and a limp when walking. What is going on? You must consider whether you have sciatica. So what kind of disease is sciatica, what is the cause of this disease, and how do we treat it?

　　Causes of sciatica

　　1. Caused by internal organ diseases. For example, infections and tumors of the uterus and its appendages can cause lumbosacral pain. Such patients are often accompanied by corresponding gynecological symptoms.

　　2. Caused by mental factors. For example, patients with hysteria may complain of back pain, but there are no objective signs, or the objective examination and subjective description cannot be explained by knowledge of physiological anatomy and pathology. This kind of back pain is often a manifestation of hysteria.

　　3. Caused by diseases of the spinal bones, joints and surrounding soft tissues. Such as local injuries, bleeding, edema, adhesions and muscle spasms caused by contusions and sprains.

　　4. Caused by spinal cord and spinal nerve diseases. Such as back pain caused by spinal cord tumors, myelitis, etc.

　　The dangers of sciatica

　　1. Harm to the patient's body. The harm of sciatica first manifests itself in the patients themselves. In the early stages, patients often feel pinprick-like pain. As the disease progresses, the pain of sciatica patients also worsens day by day. They often cannot sleep at night, sometimes accompanied by knee pain. Later, they progress to claudication, and they cannot turn around, hip abduction, or internal rotation smoothly. In the later stage, if it causes collapse, it will also lead to disability and lifelong regret.

　　2. Psychological harm to patients. When sciatica progresses to a certain extent, patients will develop symptoms of claudication. Many young patients suffer from increased psychological pressure and low self-esteem because they cannot stand the ridicule of people around them. Some patients may even have thoughts of committing suicide. On the other hand, patients cannot work normally, which reduces the financial resources of the family that originally relied on the patient. The cost of treating sciatica often becomes a burden on many families. Therefore, many families often fall apart because they are overwhelmed. There are also many divorces caused by sciatica every year.

　　Two or three things to know about sciatica

　　1. In fact, when you are sick, sciatica is divided into types. Maybe many people don’t know this. Clinically speaking, neuralgia is divided into primary and secondary types. The cause of primary sciatica (sciatic neuritis) is unknown and is relatively rare clinically. So I won’t introduce much here. Let’s take a look at the characteristics of secondary characteristics.

　　2. Many people don’t know what sciatica is. In fact, there are many people suffering from sciatica now. Sciatica is mostly unilateral and is more common in young and middle-aged men. The pain usually starts in the buttocks or lower waist and spreads down the back of the thigh to the heel. When experiencing pain, you will first feel soreness, which will gradually worsen and develop into severe pain. On top of the continuous pain, there will be bursts of burning or needle-like pain that will worsen when you bend over or move your lower limbs. Patients often take various special postures to relieve pain to relieve the stretch on the sciatic nerve. For example, when lying down, they prefer to lean toward the healthy side, when sitting, they lean toward the healthy side of the hip, and when standing, they lean toward the healthy side. The diagnosis can be made based on the location and nature of the pain, as well as the sciatic nerve tenderness point.

　　3. Experts remind everyone that you must know what sciatica is in time so that you can choose a good treatment method. To treat sciatica, patients should pay attention to find the cause. If there is an obvious history of trauma or the general condition is very poor or the pain is stubborn and does not heal, cerebrospinal fluid and lumbar X-rays should be examined. The patient should first find out the cause of the disease and receive symptomatic treatment, including resting on a hard bed, taking analgesics, vitamins B1, B12, etc., and cooperating with treatment, acupuncture, sciatic nerve trunk sealing, epidural sealing in the sacral canal and other measures.

　　4. Most people will ignore the type of illness they have when they are sick. In fact, this is not good. There are mainly primary and secondary diseases. Secondary sciatica is caused by compression or stimulation from adjacent lesions, and is further divided into radicular and dry sciatica, which respectively refer to whether the compressed part is on the nerve root or on the nerve trunk. Root type is more common, and the most common cause is intervertebral disc herniation. Other causes include intraspinal tumors, vertebral body metastasis, lumbar tuberculosis, lumbar spinal stenosis, etc. Dry type can be caused by sacroiliitis, pelvic tumors, pregnancy uterine compression, hip arthritis, hip trauma, diabetes, etc.

　　Sciatica treatment methods

　　1. Adjuvant treatment of sciatica

　　1. When pain occurs, you can apply ice to the affected area for 30 to 60 minutes, several times a day for 2 to 3 consecutive days, and then apply a hot water bottle to the affected area at the same intervals. You can also take over-the-counter analgesics such as indomethacin.

　　2. Use a hot towel or cloth-wrapped hot salt to compress the waist or buttocks every day before going to bed. The temperature should not be too high and should be comfortable. 

　　2. Exercise treatment for sciatica

　　1. Swing your legs left and right: Stand in a standing position, hold your hands on the wall, swing your legs to the left and right in turns, and keep your feet from touching the ground when swinging.

　　2. Alternating straight leg raising exercise: Lying on your back, take turns to straighten your right leg and lift it. Regular exercise can gradually increase the lifting angle.

　　3. Cycling exercise: Lie on your back and pedal your lower limbs in turn like a bicycle. The pedaling range can be gradually increased.

　　4. Sit down and push the legs: Sit with your heels on the ground, your toes raised, your hands flat on your thighs, then bend forward and push your feet with both hands at the same time. It is difficult to push the feet with both hands when you first practice, but you will get good results if you persist for a while.

　　5. Squat jump: Hold the stool with both hands, bend your left leg to squat, and straighten your right leg to the right as much as possible, alternating left and right.

　　For the treatment and health care of any disease, we must know its causes, and these causes must be eliminated during treatment, so that the disease can be cured faster. Exercise treatment for sciatica is effective, economical, and not harmful to the body. Exercise should be done as much as possible if possible.