Expert Sciatica Pain
Treatment in Calgary
Calgary Chiropractic Care for Sciatica
Sciatica is different from ordinary back pain. With this condition, you might feel pain or uncomfortable nerve sensations that run from your lower back and down one leg, reaching into your calf or foot. Nerve sensations can include numbness, tingling, burning, and muscle weakness. The source of sciatica is nerve compression, which affects the sciatic nerve. Effective sciatica treatment begins with a thorough examination. If you think you’re experiencing sciatica, visit Divergent Innovative Health Care in Calgary for a comprehensive assessment.
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Advanced Treatments for Sciatica
Our Clinic is committed to evidence-based technologies for treating sciatica. Discover our array of innovative treatments designed to help you regain freedom of movement and alleviate discomfort:
Focused Shockwave Therapy
Focused Shockwave therapy uses targeted sound waves to stimulate blood flow and promote tissue healing. It can help reduce inflammation and ease tension around the irritated sciatic nerve. Shockwave can be part of a multi-pronged approach that significantly lessens pain and gets you back to moving freely.
Radial Shockwave Therapy
Radial shockwave therapy is a non-invasive treatment that uses high-energy acoustic waves to stimulate healing in injured tissues. These shockwaves help to break down scar tissue, increase blood flow, and stimulate the body’s natural healing process. By targeting the source of pain, radial shockwave therapy can alleviate discomfort and improve mobility.
Robotic Laser Therapy
Laser therapy kickstarts your body’s natural healing process by reducing inflammation and enhancing circulation around the irritated sciatic nerve. Improved blood flow delivers essential nutrients to the area, promoting tissue repair and easing pain. Over time, laser therapy can help you experience significant relief and regain control of your movements.
TECAR Radio-frequency
TECAR uses radio waves to stimulate deep tissue healing. This can reduce inflammation around the irritated sciatic nerve, easing pain and discomfort. TECAR can improve blood flow, bringing essential nutrients to the area to promote faster healing and a quicker return to your daily activities.
Medical Management
Medical management can use medication to target inflammation and pain or muscle relaxants to ease muscle tension. In some cases, steroid injections can provide targeted relief to the inflamed area. This multi-pronged approach helps reduce pain and create a foundation for further treatment, like physical therapy, to promote healing and prevent future flare-ups.
Physiotherapy
Physiotherapists use manual therapy techniques to ease muscle tension that might be pinching your sciatic nerve. They’ll also design specific exercises to strengthen your core and leg muscles, improving overall stability and reducing pressure on the nerve. This comprehensive approach aims to alleviate pain, improve mobility, and prevent future flare-ups.
Chiropractic Therapy
By focusing on spinal alignment, chiropractors aim to reduce pressure on the irritated sciatic nerve. They may use targeted adjustments and manipulations to improve joint mobility and ease muscle tension. Chiropractic treatment can create more space for the nerve, leading to decreased inflammation and reduced pain along your leg.
ARX Omni Rehab Training
ARX Omni provides tailored resistance during exercises, focusing on strengthening muscles with safe and precise movements. By strengthening supportive muscles and improving overall mobility, the ARX Omni can help reduce pressure on the sciatic nerve and alleviate associated symptoms over time.
ARX Alpha Strength Training
ARX Alpha provides controlled resistance during exercises with adaptive technology that adjusts to the user’s strength levels. This innovative system helps alleviate pressure on the sciatic nerve through targeted strengthening of supportive muscles and improved overall mobility,
Spinal Decompression
Spinal decompression uses gentle, controlled stretches to create more space between the vertebrae. This increased space can take pressure off the irritated sciatic nerve, potentially reducing pain, inflammation, and discomfort.
Platelet-Rich Plasma
PRP therapy jumpstarts your natural repair process by injecting a concentration of your body’s healing platelets into the targeted area. These platelets are rich in growth factors that reduce inflammation, promote tissue healing, and may even help regenerate damaged nerves.
Injectable Pain Therapy
Targeted injections deliver medication to the source of pain near the irritated sciatic nerve. This medication can be a corticosteroid to reduce inflammation or a local anesthetic for immediate pain relief. With the inflammation calmed, injectable therapy can help you get back to moving freely and comfortably.
Kinesiology
Kinesiology improves the strength, flexibility, and mobility of the affected muscles and joints around the sciatic nerve and surrounding tissues. Targeted exercises and movements help alleviate pressure and reduce pain and discomfort. Kinesiology techniques such as therapeutic taping and manual therapy can help release tension and improve circulation, further aiding pain relief and promoting healing.
Rapid Neuro Fasical Reset
By applying gentle pressure to specific points on the body, RNFR aims to release tension and compression on the sciatic nerve caused by tight fascia. This technique promotes improved nerve function and blood flow, reducing inflammation and easing the discomfort associated with sciatica.
What Causes Sciatica?
Sciatica results from compression or irritation of the sciatic nerve, the body’s longest nerve, extending from the lower back down each leg. A common cause is a herniated disc in the lumbar spine, where the gel-like center protrudes and presses on nearby nerve roots. Other causes include spinal stenosis, degenerative disc disease, spondylolisthesis, or piriformis syndrome, alongside contributors like obesity, inactivity, poor lifting, or prolonged sitting.
Sciatica manifests as pain along the sciatic nerve’s path, typically from the lower back through the buttock and down one leg. Pain severity can vary, but it is commonly experienced as sharp, shooting, or burning. Individuals may also experience leg numbness, tingling, or weakness, hindering standing, walking, or sitting. Aggravated by movements like bending or twisting, severe sciatica can greatly impair mobility, requiring prompt medical attention.
Diagnosing Lower Back-and-Leg Pain Issues
Divergent Health is committed to providing personalized care and effective solutions to help you overcome back and lower body pain.
Our clinic treats many Calgarians suffering from various types of neck, hip, and back pain. During an appointment with our chiropractor, you will receive a thorough examination with focus on your back, hips, legs and feet if sciatica is an issue. If there is an area of concern, our clinic administers X-rays to identify disc problems, vertebral subluxation, injuries, or degenerative conditions.
Chiropractic care can be an effective way to diagnose and relieve sciatica pain. If your sciatica originates in your lower back, your treatment often includes a back adjustment and decompression therapy to adjust or release direct pressure or stress on nerves. If the sciatic pain is in your hip, your treatment might include therapies to relax muscles around the area. Stretches, deep tissue massage, chiropractic care, and cold laser therapy are combined to release tension from muscles and connective tissue that may be pinching the nerve.
The Divergent Health Advantage for Sciatica Care
We approach your sciatica with personalized care. Our Calgary clinic brings together an experienced team of physicians, physiotherapists and chiropractors. Through a thorough assessment, we’ll pinpoint the source of sciatica and work collaboratively to create an individualized treatment plan to restore your mobility quickly and effectively.
We have assembled a diverse team of highly skilled professionals comprising of:
Maintaining Relief from Sciatica
Sciatica is generally a chronic condition and may require follow-up appointments. Your follow-up treatment might also include:
- Rehabilitative exercises that you can do at home
- Nutritional counseling to help maintain a healthy weight
- Additional services like X-rays to identify areas of concern
Your chiropractor may provide rehabilitative exercises to strengthen the area around the issue. These exercises can be done safely at home to help avoid further occurrences.
Calgary Sciatica Doctor Near Me
Don’t let sciatica hold you back from living life to the fullest. Make an appointment today with Divergent Innovative Health Care for an examination at our Calgary clinic. We’re here to help! Call 587-325-0253 and take a step towards a pain-free tomorrow.