Remedies for Sciatica

Dr. Irma I. Sierra, DC

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Sciatica is commonly used to describe radiating leg pain. It is caused by inflammation or compression of the lumbosacral nerve roots (L4–S1) forming the sciatic nerve. Sciatica can cause severe discomfort and functional limitation.

People with sciatica usually describe aching and a sharp leg pain radiating below the knee and into the foot and toes. The pain can have a sudden or slow onset and varies in severity. Most people report coexisting low back pain. Disc herniations affecting the L5 or S1 nerve root are more common and cause pain at the back or side of the leg and into the foot and toes. If L4 root is affected, pain is localized to the front and lateral side of the thigh. Tingling or numbness and loss of muscle strength in the same leg are other symptoms that suggest nerve root involvement.

Compression of the nerve root and resultant inflammation play a role in pathogenesis of sciatica. Disc herniation resulting from age related degenerative changes or trauma, is the commonest cause. The inflammatory response induces resorption of the herniated disc material and is thought to be the reason why most people improve without surgery. Foraminal stenosis and, less commonly, soft tissue stenosis caused by cysts, tumors, or extraspinal pathology are other causes. Rarely, extraspinal pathology in the lumbosacral nervous plexus such as neoplasm, trauma, infection, or gynecological conditions, or muscle entrapment such as piriformis syndrome can mimic symptoms of disc herniation.

As a Chiropractor I will ask, what happened? Did you suffer a slip, fall, made a wrongful force, spend many hours sitting? You could have hurt your sciatic nerve. The nerve exits the lower vertebrae of the back, nerves of lumbar 4, 5 and sacral S1.

That nerve is wide and long and can be caught or irritated in several areas of its path. Therefore, we need to keep it with nutrients, relax the body zones where the nerve passes and prevent it from becoming more inflamed.

This is why I offer a combination of alternatives that can make it possible to avoid prescription drugs and surgery. It could have taken many years for your nerve to get sick so probably it might take some time for you to find relief. Don't despair, you're going to get better, but you'll have to keep taking care of yourself while, and after, you feel the relief.

DR. IRMA SIERRA SCIATICA PROTOCOL - NATURAL ALTERNATIVES

You need to adopt new habits, the way you use your back. And this change is for the rest of your life:

1. Stretch out every morning before you get out of bed. Bring your legs to your chest one at a time and then both, by five (5) repetitions. Repeat three (3) times a day, in bed or on the floor.
2. Avoid bending at the waist. Learn how to bend your knees to get things off the floor.
3. Change the way you sleep. Avoid sleeping face down. To sleep on your back, add a pillow under your knees or use a cushion between your knees if you sleep on your side.
4. Don't sit more than 20 minutes at a time. Get up, get some water, and sit back down. If you're in the car and caught in traffic, try to pause to get out and stand for 2–3 minutes, and be careful when getting in or out of the car. If you are in a private area, lay down and rest your back, do the stretches by carrying your knees to your chest.
5. Ladies: avoid high heels that are more than two and a half inches. 1½" to 2" is good.
6. Do stretching, Qi-gong, or yoga exercises as a routine. Walk 20–40 minutes three times a week. This is no time to start if you have a lot of pain, but 15 minutes of walking will help.
7. Avoid constipation. Lax Ease works very well.
8. Visit a Chiropractic Doctor. They're the only doctors who can adjust (manipulate) the spine to remove nerve interference. With lumbar and pelvic x-ray of the front, side and oblique we can see if you have any vertebrae misaligned, evaluating the disc spaces between them and if you have one hip higher than the other, or any rotation. A lumbar Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is most likely needed to learn about those discs that may be compressing the sciatic nerve. Regular Chiropractic visits should be like a lifestyle, a routine, to keep your spine always aligned without nerve interference.
9. In our clinic we use PEMF and the original Electro-Magnetic therapy of Dr. Ralph U. Sierra, cold laser therapy and hydromassage. The store has an Oasis Biomagnetico where we offer PEMF therapy as well without the need of being a patient. Visit Oasis Biomagnetico info
10. Take daily natural muscle relaxant and natural anti-inflammatory. To nourish the area you need: Vitamin B-12 Sublingual, a supplement for discs, calcium with magnesium (calcium is not just for bones, you need it to avoid cramps and muscle contractions), and Glucosamine with chondroitin (and MSM). We have prepared a Rehab Pack consisting of: Relax-S, Inflam Health & More™, Lig-Disc & Joint, and Bone Health & More. Add B-12 and white willow bark, Pain-Less™ X2 caps. The combination of these accelerates the healing process and helps with pain, numbness, and inflammation in the joints.
11. Put ice packs or cold ointment on your back, buttock, leg and feet. 5% of the population feels that heat works better. Please see our hot/cold gel packs and Pain-Less™ cream line.
12. Get a lumbo-sacral support or belt that supports the area — not too tight — preferably with magnets. The Magnetic Back Belt is ideal, or without magnets you can use the orthopedic support belts (non-magnetic, to which you can add a magnetic pad sold separately).
13. Something as simple as a magnetic flexible band that you can move from back to leg. Numerous scientists, among them Dr. Ralph U. Sierra, worked on the premise that the human body is influenced by changes in natural magnetic fields and by applying a magnet of negative polarity creates an electrical current that stimulates the nerves and blocks the sensation of pain, strengthens the cells of your body, reduces inflammations, increases blood circulation, and helps in the healing process.
14. Use Magnetic Insoles and the Sierra's N-1 Therapeutic Magnet to help pull the excess energy — the nerve’s overactive electrical charge — out of the body through the feet. Placing negative polarity magnets at the feet helps ground and redirect that energy, providing relief along the entire sciatic nerve path.
15. Stimulate the muscle by massaging with a machine with low vibration, preferably with magnets, to release the spasm so the nerve signal can pass through all those muscles. We have the Tsubo Massager.
16. The use of a Sitback Rest seat-back cushion directly protects the curvature of the lower back. There are also cushions for the chair that cover the back and the seat area.

As you can see, my recommendation is holistic and based in self-care, rest, and rehabilitation. It is focused on addressing the cause of the symptoms, the subsequent pain, rather than just medicating the pain alone. Consult a chiropractor for a treatment strategy.

By: Dr. Irma I. Sierra

The author is a doctor in Chiropractic and an expert in the field of Biomagnetism. For more information visit or call Health Magnetic Store 787.782.5767 or Clínica Quiropráctica Jarrot Sierra at 787.277-5967, located next to each other.

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