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What Is Sciatica? Sciatica is a painful condition that affects the lower back and the leg. When the sciatic nerve becomes irritated, sciatica leads to pain that is typically felt on just one side of the body. Sciatica is also known to cause numbness in the affected regions of the body, as well as trouble with controlling the leg.
When a person has sciatica, pain radiates from the lower back down to the thigh, extending downward to the back of the calf. In some cases, pain from sciatica flows upward as well, affecting the hip, and back down toward the foot. For many affected individuals, pain from sciatica is enough to impair the performance of everyday tasks.
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Anatomy Of Sciatica As the largest nerve in the human body, the sciatic nerve has great range, extending from the lumbar spinal cord down through the leg.The sciatic nerve is formed from the L5 and S1 nerve roots in the spinal canal and the union of these nerves becomes the sciatic nerve in the pelvis. The sciatic nerve continues through the pelvis into the buttock and back of the upper thigh to the back of the knee where it splits into nerves coursing into the calf.
Causes Of Sciatica
One of the main causes of sciatica inflammation then is herniated discs in the lumber or sacral regions which put pressure on the sciatic nerve and result in causing pain and discomfort.
Diagnosis Of Sciatica The diagnosis of sciatica is based on history taking and physical examination. The investigation will help to pinpoint the irritated sciatic nerve. The physician will then carefully consider the results of the questions and physical investigation and may then decide that special tests are necessary; you may be subjected to MRI or CT scan Or Spinal X-Ray (can be used to highlight tumours that might be irritating your sciatic nerve).
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Treatment Of Sciatica
Non Surgical Treatment MEDICATION FOR SCIATICA If pain is severe, the doctor may prescribe a more potent NSAID. Chronic sciatica may require a muscle relaxant and/or anti-depressant medication. Certain anti-seizure and anti-depressant medications are effective in blocking pain messages sent to the brain. Some of these drugs may enhance the body's production of natural pain killers - endorphins.
EPIDURAL STEROID INJECTION FOR SCIATICA This type of spinal injection places a steroid (corticosteroid) medication near spinal nerve roots. Steroids reduce inflammation and can help to ease back and leg pain.
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Surgical Treatment Of Sciatica If the healthcare professional's diagnosis of your condition is that you have sciatica, they may then, if your condition is severe enough, decide that surgery is appropriate. the common procedures are:
Discectomy: All or part of the problem disc is removed.
Intradiscal Eletrothermoplasty: A heated wire is inserted into the problem disc through a needle and used to destroy the tiny nerve fibres causing the sciatica.
Radiofrequency Discal Nucleoplasty: A radio frequency probe is inserted into the problem disc through a needle and highly-focused radio frequency field is used to vapourise some of the disc, reducing its size and thereby decompressing the disc to reduce the pressure on the sciatic nerve.
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