Sciatica Nerve Injuries - How To Deal With It

Sciatic nerve is known to be reason behind the lower extremities or back pain by many people. Why people believe on this? Reasons may be many such as, their doctor told them so, they themselves have derived this conclusion, pain is near to the place of sciatica nerve. But in most of the cases, people are completely deprived of the knowledge about the sciatica nerve.

The sciatic nerve starts from the lumbosacral spine which is back's lower part and lasts till the toes. Sciatic nerve and its nerve branches has a diameter of ¾ inch. It is responsible for motor and sensory functions in the calf, ankle, toes, knees, thigh and feet. It is also known to be the longest and largest nerve in the body and is an inch long.

Sciatica is the result of inflammation of sciatic nerve due to some injury or any other cause that harms it. Unlike people believe sciatica is not a disease. Scatica is a set of symptoms that happens in the body of a patient. If you are suffering from sciatica then you might experience pain anywhere between lower back to your toes. Pain can be at a particular part of the body or in the complete sciatica area. Patient may experience severe excruciating pain, weakness, numbness etc. if he or she is suffering from herniated disc which stresses the sciatic nerve. Such patients in some cases become incapable of even sitting, standing or walking and in others face problems in their daily lives.

The branches of sciatic nerve reach various parts of the body. It ranges from lower back to the sacrum or pelvic are of your body. From sacrum, it goes to the sciatic forament and then branches into two different branches, namely, muscular branch and articular branch . The muscular branch helps to operate the leg flexor muscles which are related to our movement mechanism. The articular branch deals with the hip area of the body. Anything we feel in an ankle, thigh, foot, calf, knee or toes is the result of sciatic nerve. Therefore, it would be wrong to say that sciatic nerve controls the motor functions only.

In most of the cases, where people get injured in their buttocks, have fractured pelvis or suffer from trauma in thighs usually end up injuring their sciatic nerve. Sciatic nerve may also get damaged if you create extra pressure by sitting or lying for a long period. Gone are the days, when open back surgery used to be the only option available in the case of an injured sciatic nerve. Nowadays, you can opt for various types of treatments such as physical therapy, chiropractic manual manipulation and laser surgery.

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