Sciatica...

What You Need to Know About Sciatica

The term sciatica describes the symptoms of leg pain and possibly tingling, numbness or weakness that travels from the low back through the buttock and down the large sciatic nerve in the back of the leg.

An important thing to understand is that sciatica is a symptom of a problem — of something compressing or irritating the nerve roots that comprise the sciatic nerve — rather than a medical diagnosis or medical disorder in and of itself. This is an important distinction because it is the underlying diagnosis (vs. the symptoms of sciatica) that often needs to be treated in order to relieve sciatic nerve pain.  Sciatica is often treated with chiropractic adjustments to allow the removal of pressure on the nerve. It is the underlying misalignment of boney structure that creates the compression and must be dealt with before more debilitating and life threatening conditions arise.