Leg Pain Driving You Crazy?
Is it Sciatica?

Is your leg pain driving you crazy? Is it Sciatica?

Did you know that many times your leg and/or foot pain can be caused by a problem in your low back or even buttocks, without even feeling any pain in your low back? The pain, with Sciatica, most commonly travels along the sciatic nerve, down the back of the thigh and calf in to the foot which can start at a specific spinal nerve root from your spine. Please be aware that many times sciatica or sciatica nerve pain is caused by a spasm of the piriformis muscle, where the sciatic nerve runs through it!

• What you are experiencing is a condition called sciatica?.
• With many low back problems, there is actually little or no low back pain.
• Instead, you may have leg pain, foot pain, and/or lower extremity numbness or weakness.
• Compression or pressure on any of the nerve roots in the low back can cause:
  • Pain
  • Numbness
  • Weakness along the different nerves as they travel down through the leg and into the foot.
• When you go to your doctor for leg and/or foot pain, he should be examining you from your low back all the way down. It is important to get diagnosed by your doctor before you start treatment!
• Just think once you can figure out where the pain comes from you could finally get some natural pain relief!