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Writer's pictureTina Belt, L.Ac. Dipl OM

The Best Ways to Treat Sciatica


Person with leg pain from sciatica

If you experience pain in your lower back, butt, and down your legs… you might suffer from sciatica.

 

Sciatica involves pain caused from a pinched sciatic nerve. Your sciatic nerve runs from your spine, through your hips, and down both of your legs. It’s responsible for making your legs and feet move and feel.

 

This nerve can become pinched due to a number of factors. While a herniated disk and tight muscles are the leading cause, there’s a lot of different ways you can get there. Risk factors for sciatica include:

·        Prolonged sitting

·        Smoking

·        Excess weight

·        Heavy lifting

·        Age

·        Poor posture

 

How do you get relief from sciatica, especially when you want to avoid taking pain relievers or other drugs every day?

 

Good Needles has helped hundreds of patients overcome pain from pinched nerves and offers the insight and tools you need to feel better. Learn more about all the drug-free ways you can heal your sciatica.

 

At home remedies

There’s a couple of tricks you should know about that will help ease your sciatica pain by relieving the pressure on that pinched nerve.

 

Take more frequent walks. If you want to double up the health benefits, take your walk after you eat. Now you’re fighting sciatica and helping your body digest.

 

Prop up your knees while you sleep. Putting a pillow under your knees while you lay down will take pressure off your lower back and reduce sciatica pain.

 

Stretch before bed. Stretching your hips, back, and legs can help relax the tense muscles putting pressure on your sciatic nerve. This is also a great routine if you struggle with sleeping because it helps calm down your nervous system!

 

Acupuncture

One of the best ways to relax tense muscles and help rebuild damaged nerves is acupuncture. It’s uniquely tailored to activate your body’s natural healing process by increasing blood flow, relieving muscle tightness, and restoring balance to your nervous system.

 

Because it affects your nerves, sciatica is a complicated issue. There aren’t many approaches that not only relieve the pressure on your nerve but stimulate nerve regeneration. Your body knows exactly what it needs to do to heal itself, sometimes it just needs a nudge to get there.

 

Other benefits of acupuncture include natural painkilling abilities due to the release of endorphins from treatment. This can allow you to take less painkillers and minimize the unwanted side effects.

 

Chinese herbal medicine

Chinese herbal medicine has many remedies for reducing inflammation, swelling, and pain. This natural prescription guides your body toward recovery whereas medical prescriptions will mask your symptoms. There is a time and place for both, but utilizing Chinese herbal medicine will help you toward healing faster.

 

Some herbs trigger anti-inflammatory properties, others prevent blood stagnation. These are both crucial processes for getting rid of pain and stimulating nerve regeneration and muscle relaxation.

 

Using Chinese herbal formulas in parallel to your other treatments can help accelerate healing even further while promoting health throughout your entire your body. You’ll ease your sciatica while helping your other joints, nerves, and muscles.

 

Functional medicine

Because many of the risk factors for sciatica include areas that functional medicine addresses, undergoing a functional medicine review can help ease your sciatica. We can help you address which lifestyle choices are influencing your sciatica the most.

 

Weight is a major contributing factor to sciatica, but many people struggle to figure out how to lose excess weight. A functional medicine practitioner like Good Needles can help you come up with a plan to eat right and not only lose weight but reduce your overall inflammation.

 

This is the best way to maximize your everyday routine to get the most out of your health. This will not only help your sciatica, but every aspect of your health.

 

 

Sciatica makes life hard. You should be able to move around freely without pain getting in your way.

 

Good Needles can help. Schedule an appointment to access natural sciatica treatment designed to get you out of pain and encourage whole body healing. The sooner you get started the faster you can get back to a better quality of life.

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