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Sciatica
Sciatica Tamworth or Sciatica Lichfield?
 Sciatica Tamworth, Tamworth Sciatica, Pinched Nerve or Trapped Nerve are all search terms used when looking for help with sciatica in the Tamworth, Staffordshire area.
Tamworth Osteopaths and Tamworth Physiotherapists at Atlas offer an alternative to Tamworth Chiropractors in the treatment of sciatic nerve root irritation. Besides Osteopathy and Physiotherapy, Atlas Pain Relief Centre’s can offer acupuncture and massage for back pain
Often sciatic nerve root irritation can be caused initially by a leg length difference that creates a compensatory scoliosis which is a sidewards curvature of the spine.
Sciatica is very painful and can cause much discomfort to daily living. Patients from Tamworth, Staffordshire, Atherstone, Polesworth, Kingsbury, Lichfield, Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, Swadlincote, Measham, Brownhills, Burton on Trent and Dordon, travel to Award Winning Clinic Atlas Pain Relief Centre in Tamworth, Staffordshire to receive treatment for this condition.
As this condition often involves the low back then the Tamworth back pain specialists at Atlas are regularly able to help. Sciatica is usually caused by impingement of lumbar spinal nerve roots in the low back. The symptoms are pain, pins and needles, tingling and numbness in the buttocks, legs and feet.
Symptoms in sciatica typically extend to below the knee but can be confined to the low back and buttocks. The terms 'nerve root pain' or 'radicular pain' are also used for sciatica.
Sciatica occurs when there is compression of a lumbosacral nerve root or inflammation of the nerve root which may have various causes:
- Prolapse, Herniation or bulging of a lumbar intervertebral disc which most commonly occurs at L5/S1 lumbar spine level. Commonly known as a slipped disc
- Annular fissure of intervertebral disc with chemical irritation of nerve root.
- Nerve root compression from osteophytes, generally referred to as wear and tear or osteoarthritis
- Spinal stenosis - narrowing of the spinal canal and spinal foramina
- Bone or joint disease, e.g. Paget's disease, ankylosing spondylitis.
- Spinal tumours, e.g. bony secondaries from breast or prostate cancer.
- Failed back surgery
Typical history is:
- One sided leg pain, down the back or side of the leg radiating below the knee to the foot or toes.
- Low back pain is generally less severe than the leg pain.
- Full weight bearing activity generally aggravates the symptoms..
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