Sciatica is a painful condition which may impact your life in a big way. There are different care and solutions available for this problem. The effectiveness of different solutions vary a lot and one solution may or may not work for someone. Let's find out what are the solutions available for sciatica.

Chiropractic care

Chiropractic care can help you to get relief when you are suffering from sciatica. According to a study in the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics, people who visited a chiropractor felt better with the treatment which lasted for few weeks. Spinal manipulation can help people suffering from sciatica to get relief from the pain. It may also restore normal mobility around the injured area. Such care may reduce inflammation which will enhance the body's healing mechanism by creating a suitable environment.

Yoga

Yoga is a very well-known method for quality living. It advocates performing different exercises and postures for healthy living. Yoga can help you in reducing pain and even disability. Scientific studies have been done to see if yoga can actually help people who are suffering from different types of pain and disability. People suffering from back pain showed tremendous improvement when they practised yoga for few weeks. Yoga will help you to strengthen your muscles and improve flexibility at the same time. Different postures and exercises will help you to move better and function in a normal way even when you have sciatica. It will also arrest aggravation of sciatica to other areas than the present ones. You can try yoga when you are trying to get rid of sciatica so that it not only reduces your pain but also improves your mobility and flexibility so that it can function better in your life. However, you should always find the right teacher to learn Yoga from when you are suffering from sciatica.

Acupuncture

Acupuncture can also help you if you are suffering from sciatica. It will need several sessions to see any improvement but relief may be possible after a few sessions. Normal acupuncture or warming acupuncture any of these techniques can help people suffering from sciatica. In this method, needles are inserted in certain specific areas of the body to reduce the pain and inflammation. Many people believe that acupuncture can really help in different medical conditions.

Massages

Massages really help us by improving our blood circulation and reducing pain in different parts of the body. It can also be applied to people who are suffering from sciatica. However, trigger point therapy may be the best option especially for sciatica patients. If the piriformis muscle, present beneath the glutes, gets tight it may affect the sciatic nerve causing sciatica problems. Massage is applied to the trigger points or the irritated and inflamed areas. It is done in the muscle present in the lower back and glutes besides the piriformis muscle. Such specifically targeted massage can ease the pain and improve the functionality of patient.

Epidural steroid injections

If someone is suffering from sciatica and even after other therapies the pain is there after a month, they can go for epidural steroid injections. An x-ray guided injection of steroid can help to ease the pain. The injection is put into the lower back near the sciatic nerve. The injection reduces inflammation and offers faster relief. However, there are some side effects of this injection like loss of bone density. That is why you can take a maximum of three shots of epidural steroid injections in a year.

References
1. Doctor-trusted Sciatica Back Pain Treatment System
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