Sciatica is nerve pain that originates in the lower back and radiates down the buttock to the thigh and leg on one side. The pain may be accompanied by numbness and/or weakness.

What Does Sciatica Feel Like?

The symptoms of sciatica are commonly felt along the path of the large sciatic nerve. Sciatica is often characterized by one or more of the following features:

• Pain
• Numbness
• Loss of sensation in severe cases
• Foot drop

What Causes Sciatica?

Sciatica is caused by irritation of the root(s) of the lower lumbar and lumbosacral spine.

Additional common causes of sciatica include:

* Lumbar spinal stenosis (narrowing of the spinal canal in the lower back)

* Degenerative disc disease (slip disc)

* Spondylolisthesis (a condition in which one vertebra slips forward over another one)

* Pregnancy

* Muscle spasm in the back or buttocks

Other things that may make your back pain worse include being overweight, not exercising regularly, wearing high heels, or sleeping on a mattress that is too hard or too soft.

Physiotherapy:

Beneficial for people with sciatica and low backache .

Like many treatment options, physical therapy is not a quick fix and may require several weeks to achieve the desired results.

Medical management along with symptom specific Physiotherapy helps to come out of sciatica pain.

We at our centre use advanced modalities to reduce pain and improve quality of life as a short term goal .

ONCE THE PAIN COMES DOWN TO 80% ON VAS SCALE WE SHIFT OUR TARGET TO LONG TERM GOAL OF COMPLETE ERADICATION OF PAIN .

Long term goal consist of exercises and Manual therapy technique .

We follow guidelines suggested by APTA ( American physical therapy association).

by Dr. Rahul K.Sharma - Physical Therapist

[ MPT ( Ortho) DNDT, BLS, FIMT ]

Ex Consultant Physical Therapist Fortis hospitals bangalore .
Ex HOD PT Dhanush Hospitals , bangalore
Ex Chief Of Physical Therapy Khushi Orthopaedic ,bangalore
HOD PT - Bharat vikas parishad hospitals , dadabari kota