Osteopathy for Sciatica
The White Practice – Based in Nailsworth, Stroud, Gloucestershire
The pain may hit suddenly like a lightening bolt, or may be like an excruciating "toothache" in your legs – either way sciatica is a painful experience that osteopaths are able to help with in most cases.
Sciatica is a general term describing pain from irritation or compression of the sciatic nerve which leaves your spine and travels down your leg. Symptoms include backpain; pain down the back of the legs; discomfort or pins and needles in ankles, feet & toes; and sometimes numbness in the legs and feet. Causes of irritation to the sciatic nerve include a prolapsed (slipped) disc, spinal wear and tear or muscular compression, of the sciatic nerve, in the buttocks.