Posts Tagged "Lumbar Spine"

Sciatica

Posted by Dr. Wirtz on Apr 10, 2012 in Blog, Drug Free Treatment, Health Tips | 0 comments

The term sciatica describes the symptoms of leg pain and possibly tingling, numbness or weakness that travels from the low back through the buttock and down the large sciatic nerve in the back of the leg. The clinical diagnosis of sciatica is referred to as a “radiculopathy,” which means simply that a disc has protruded from its normal position in the vertebral column and is putting pressure on the radicular nerve (nerve root) in the lower back, which forms part of the sciatic nerve.

An important thing to understand is that sciatica is a symptom of a problem — of something compressing or irritating the nerve roots that comprise the sciatic nerve — rather than a medical diagnosis or medical disorder in and of itself. This is an important distinction because it is the underlying diagnosis (vs. the symptoms of sciatica) that often needs to be treated in order to relieve sciatic nerve pain.

Chiropractic adjustments along with muscular rehab are very successful in the correction and relief of sciatica.

Muscle Strain Sprains & Low Back Pain

Posted by fseblog on Jul 25, 2011 in Blog, Personal Injury | 1 comment

Muscle strain sprains are the most common causes of low back pain.  A low back muscle strain occurs when the muscles fibers of the back are abnormally stretched or torn, a low back strain occurs when the ligaments, the tough bands of tissue that hold the bones together are torn from their attachments.  Differentiating a strain from a sprain can be difficult, because both injuries will show similar symptoms therefore many doctors refer to this type of injury as a “musculoligamentous injury”  of the lumbar spine.

It’s The Little Things

Posted by fseblog on Jun 27, 2011 in Blog, Personal Injury | 0 comments

We all know when we have injured ourselves if we have fallen or been involved in a motor vehicle accident.  But how many of us recognize the countless little things that occur during normal days and weeks? These small injuries go by several names Chronic Repetitive Stress disorder, Work-related Musculoskeletal Disorder and Cumulative Trauma Disorder. What it comes down to is that multiple small injuries over a long period of time will leave a person with just as much injury as a single traumatic event such as a fall or accident.