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Chronic Health Conditions Discussion and Support

Marthe48

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16. I had problems

Reply to TEB (Original post)

Mon Dec 2, 2019, 08:37 PM

Dec 2019

I went to a sports med dr. who set me up with intense therapy. Heat, then massage, every 3 days for about 2 weeks. He said in most people, the sciatica is under a muscle, but in some people, the muscle splits and surrounds the sciatica. It the muscle gets inflamed, it swells and presses on the sciatica. His aim was to get the muscle relaxed and inflammation reduced. At first, the massage hurt, but I started feeling better. That treatment fixed me up pretty good. I have sciatica pain once in awhile, but I know where to massage to get the muscle settled down. It was in the 90s I had treatment, and I haven't had that kind of pain since.

Good luck to you. Hope by now you are feeling much better!

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Sciatica has anybody ever tried a chiropractic approach for treatment [View all] TEB Jul 2019 OP

We bought an inversion table. redwitch Jul 2019 #1

Thank you TEB Jul 2019 #2

"We bought an inversion table." mitch96 Jul 2019 #9

i got nothhing from ER. not even an xray. went to chiro. she did xray. i had displaced my loer spine pansypoo53219 Jul 2019 #3

I've never been to a chiro. but had PT. Laffy Kat Jul 2019 #4

No chiropractor can fix bulging and/or herniated discs, my step daughter has found out the beachbum bob Jul 2019 #5

"No chiropractor can fix bulging and/or herniated discs" mitch96 Jul 2019 #10

my step daughters chiroprator manipulated her bones into such a state that she could no longer walk beachbum bob Jul 2019 #13

" The 3 bulging disks and a herniated disk all in a row in her lower back." mitch96 Jul 2019 #14

Haven't you been offered a cortisone marybourg Jul 2019 #6

I have, three times and it worked really well for me BUT... WePurrsevere Jul 2019 #7

1972 I had terrible back pain and went to a chiropractor. safeinOhio Jul 2019 #8

My husband used to have severe debilitating bouts of sciatica. He swears by yoga. enough Jul 2019 #11

I'd try PT. Went to a chiropractor decades ago for back and leg pain/numbness. He said that numbness Hoyt Jul 2019 #12

I get it occasionally Runningdawg Jul 2019 #15

I had problems Marthe48 Dec 2019 #16

I use an inversion table. Never have it anymore. triron Jun 2020 #17

My Wife Yes ProfessorGAC Jun 2020 #18