If you are suffering from sciatic nerve pain, you have a lot of company. It is estimated that 40 percent of the population is affected by this condition at some point in their lives. This troubling disorder has many potential causes. Fortunately, at Long Island Spine Rehabilitation Medicine we have many effective nonsurgical treatments for…
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Sciatica Risk Factors
If you are suffering the acute, often incapacitating, pain of sciatica, you may be wondering how you came to be in this miserable situation. More than that, you are no doubt wondering what you can do to find relief. A good first step is contacting the physiatrists at Long Island Spine Rehabilitation Medicine. Our doctors…
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Medical Massage for Sciatica
Can complementary medicine methods like a medical massage help reduce sciatica pain? That pain that seems to run all the way down the outside of your leg, sometimes radiating in a way that feels like you are being poked by a thousand needles and other times more of an aching numbness, is called sciatica. The…
Continue reading…Sciatica and Obesity
Does weight gain have anything to do with sciatica and will losing weight make it go away? There was a time, long ago, when being overweight was actually a good thing. When daily life was focused almost solely on survival and a steady supply of food was rarely a certainty, having reserves stored as body…
Continue reading…Sciatica Pain Relief You Can Do at Home
Is there anything I can do at home to get relief for sciatica pain? Unless you have experienced the kind of pain that is always there and never seems to go away, it’s hard to understand just how much it can affect you. When something irritates or puts pressure on the sciatic nerve, this type…
Continue reading…Piriformis Syndrome
How does a diagnosis of piriformis syndrome differ from sciatica? If we are lucky, we are familiar with sciatica because we have heard friends or family members complain about the sensation that radiates from the lower back all the way down the leg. It can be experienced as a “pins and needles” sort of tingling…
Continue reading…Sciatica: Causes and Treatments
What treatments are available for sciatica pain? Have you ever had someone tell you that your pain is all in your head? That what you are describing isn’t real? Annoying, right? Anyone who has experienced that unique pain that shoots down the length of the leg as it follows the sciatic nerve, knows just how…
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