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The painful condition of sciatica is distinguished by severe and irritating pain throughout the legs, from the lower back area. This happens due to the sciatic nerve (the main nerve to run through the leg) becoming irritated by the spine’s lower bones.

Although this pain is usually felt throughout the leg, it is common for it to go beyond the knee and even into the foot. Besides pain, other effects are weakness of the leg muscles or numbness. Oftentimes this is combined with some form of lower back pain which can occur before or after the condition.

When diagnosing sciatica, doctors review not only the pain a patient is feeling, but also what other symptoms or conditions they may have. Although they may seem unrelated, they often can highlight something more severe than just simple back pain. Some things to notice are having lost a drastic amount of weight, feeling unwell, taking steroids, having or have had cancer, a recent violent injury, like a car crash. These indicators are usually signs to see a doctor right away.

The treatment for this condition is basic as it usually resolves itself fully within a matter of days or a few weeks. Treating the pain can easily be done with generic painkillers like paracetamol and ibuprofen. Although it might seem best to settle in bed until the pain is gone, this does not help with the condition itself and only helps with the pain. Staying active is a much better option as well as staying in work.

An epidural may be advised in extreme cases. A special liquid is injected into the spine to numb the nerves that are being irritated and causing the pain.

When pain control is not working, surgery may need to be discussed to prevent the nerves from being pressed by the bones. This only happens in very rare cases as the consequences involved in this kind of surgery are very serious.

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Having a herniated disc in and of itself can be a very painful condition. When sciatica is a by product of the problem it is even worse. Not only do you have the pain from the disc,but you also have the pain from the swollen and irritated sciatic nerve.

First a herniated disc occurs when the central portion of the disc called the nucleus pulposis migrates outwards and breaks through the outer portion of the disc called the annulus fibrosis.

In research studies only the outer 1/3 of the disc has been shown to contain pain sensitive fibers. Therefore damage can accumulate over time before the person ever feels any pain.

Repetitive activities, incorrect sitting postures and trauma are usually to blame when it comes to herniated disc pain. These activities weaken the outer annulus allowing migration of the inner portion of the disc.

As the migration occurs and the outer fibers become contacted the pain sensitive nerves begin to become activated resulting in local back pain at first.

After the initial bout of back pain from a disc problem occurs a short period of relief or lessened pain may come about. This is usually due to the fact that the activities that caused the problem have been modified or stopped.

Many people make the false assumption that the pain is gone for good, however the medical literature shows a very different scenario. People are almost always destined to have another bout of back pain within a year, unless proper treatment is applied.

With the return of the pain there is also a corresponding increase the the area involved. This usually starts with a movement of the pain into the arm and leg depending on where the disc problem is.

Once pain begins to move into the leg it is often called sciatica. This condition is associated with involvement of the sciatic nerve.

The pain from sciatica can be a consequence of either pressure from the disc itself on the nerve or from inflammation caused by the injured disc irritating the sciatic nerve.

In either case proper treatment is a must. This means actually working to fix the disc problem through proactive means. The best treatment I have come across is for this is spinal decompression.

The outer fibers of the disc are able to scar over due to the negative pressures inside the disc, created with spinal decompression pulling back in the herniated material

Spinal decompression is the best treatment to actually heal a herniated disc relieving sciatica pain.