Have you been suffering from pain shooting down your leg? Have you felt burning, tingling, muscular weakness, and numbness in your lower back or limbs? You may be suffering from sciatica. For sciatica treatments in Buffalo, NY, you can count on Dr. William Owens at Greater Buffalo Accident and Injury Chiropractic to perform an examination and create a personalized treatment plan.
Chiropractic Adjustment
When your spine is out of alignment, it affects every part of your body, including your extremities, your organs, and your bodily functions. It also affects nerve roots, such as those of the sciatic nerve, which travels from the lower back down the leg. Every patient who comes in with pain is diagnosed and treated individually. That is why chiropractors use more than one type of chiropractic adjustment to push misaligned spinal joints back into place. Not every technique of adjusting is correct for every patient. After a thorough assessment, Dr. Owens will decide which methods will work best and discuss them with his patient.
Some chiropractic adjustments are vigorous and produce the popping sound many people enjoy. Other methods are gentler. The goal, however, for all adjustments is to restore the vertebrae to the correct alignment. This should help move other displaced or swollen tissues off the sciatic nerve.
Electric Muscle Stimulation
When your spine is out of alignment, it places additional stress on the muscles and soft tissues in the back and pelvic region. Swollen muscles may be painful in their own right and put pressure on the sciatic nerve. Electric muscle stimulation uses low levels of electric current to treat the muscles. Electrodes are placed on the area where the pain is originating, and the current is applied. This causes the muscles to contract. After a while, the muscles get tired, and they relax, which helps to relieve the pain and spasms.
Therapeutic Exercise
Therapeutic exercises are commonly recommended as complementary treatments. These include stretching and strengthening exercises that your chiropractor will show you how to do. They will help to improve balance and range of motion and provide your spine with more support. This will reduce the risk of an injury affecting the sciatic nerve in the future.
Begin Holistic Sciatica Relief
Dr. Owens from Greater Buffalo Accident and Injury Chiropractic provides sciatica treatments in Buffalo, NY, along with treatments for many other conditions. Don't wait, give the office a call today for an appointment at (716) 200-0651.