Healing Back Pain Healing back pain has long been a challenge for medical practitioners, especially in patients in whom the persistent pain interferes with daily life. In some cases, the pain could be so crippling and debilitating that these patients could no longer work and require the aid of loved ones for certain activities that [...]
Identifying the Signs and Symptoms of Sciatica While we think of the symptoms of sciatica as the signs of a disease called “sciatica”, it is actually NOT a disease but a general term for a group of symptoms that arise from irritation or compression of the spinal nerve roots or the sciatic nerve(s). General symptoms [...]
Understanding the Causes of Sciatica Before one could understand the causes of sciatica, it is important to know first what this condition actually is. Sciatica is not actually a “disease” or a “diagnosis”, but a group of symptoms that develops when there is general compression of the spinal nerve roots — particularly lumbar nerves L4 [...]