Sciatica Chiropractor

Do you experience back, leg, or neck pain or numbness? Perhaps you can’t move freely and perform everyday activities? Our sciatica chiropractor can address these symptoms, often caused by a disc bulge, protrusion, herniation, prolapse, or spinal stenosis. This painful condition is also known as radiculopathy, a pain that travels down the leg. Depending on the spinal level compressed, pain can go down the back of the leg to the foot, down the front or side of the thigh.

What Is Sciatica? 

Sciatica, in short, refers to pain experienced along the path of the sciatic nerve. Often sciatica happens when a herniated disc or a bulging disc puts pressure on the lumbar spine. Often this can cause inflammation, pain and sometimes even numbness in the affected leg. The pain associated with sciatica can be severe, but oftentimes if the pain is in relation to a herniated disc, your pain could clear up in a few weeks with treatment. 

How Is Sciatica Diagnosed? 

Whilst mild sciatica may go away over time, it’s important to seek treatment if self-care methods don’t relieve your symptoms or if your pain lasts for longer than a week. If your pain is severe or progresses and gets worse, it’s also important to seek a diagnosis from a sciatica Chiropractor. 

Sciatica can normally be diagnosed quite simply by assessing your pain and examining your spine and legs. In most sciatica cases, you won’t need any extra tests or scans to diagnose sciatica. If your pain is more serious, your practitioner may want to refer you to get an MRI to rule out any more serious spinal issues. 

Sciatica Treatment Melbourne 

Sciatica and radiculopathy treatment by our sciatica pain chiropractor at Melbourne Spine Clinic and Malvern Chiropractic Clinic uses Cox® Flexion-Distraction therapy. This treatment is a safe, gentle, and effective way of minimising spinal and foraminal compression and alleviating leg pain. Here’s what you can look forward to when you use our services:

  • Qualified and experienced practitioner. Our certified chiropractors use Cox® Flexion-Distraction, which has been found to provide superior treatment for relieving sciatica and radiculopathy pain.
  • Reliable. According to the Cox® Technic website, “one of the most revealing outcomes indicated that Flexion distraction treatment is superior to active exercise treatment to relieve radiculopathy pain. Cox® Flexion-Distraction was two and a half times as successful in relieving radiculopathy leg pain.” Research has also shown that Cox® therapy is an effective spondylolisthesis treatment and gives fast and long-lasting relief to back and leg pain.
  • Quick results. Treatment is shown to provide relief for patients experiencing back and leg pain on average in 29 days and 12 visits. Many back and leg pain patients find relief within fewer days and visits, while others with severe pain may find that it takes a bit longer. In some instances, the pain will come and go while healing, the more time between the pain returning, is a sign that healing is taking place.

Melbourne Spine Clinic Can Help You Today

Our skilled spondylolisthesis chiropractors addresses disc conditions using the highest safety standards. Our team is ready to support you.

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