How to alleviate sciatica

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Nowadays, most of people's life is sitting. Young people like office workers and student party members sit for a very long time. If they are not active during sitting time, they are prone to suffer from sciatica. Now let's talk about how to relieve sciatica.

How to alleviate sciatica

First, sciatica is a syndrome characterized by pain in sciatic nerve pathway and distribution area. The vast majority of cases of sciatica are secondary to the stimulation, compression and damage of the sciatic nerve caused by the lesion of the local and surrounding structures of the sciatic nerve, which is called secondary sciatica; a few are primary, namely sciatic neuritis.

Second: the pain is mainly limited to the sciatic nerve distribution area, the back of the thigh, the posterolateral side of the leg and the foot. Patients with severe pain can present a unique posture: waist flexion, knee flexion, and toe landing. If the lesion is located in the nerve root, the pain will be aggravated when the pressure in the spinal canal increases (cough, exertion).

Third: sciatic nerve trunk tenderness is obvious, gastrocnemius tenderness exists; pain and myasthenia are not parallel, general pain is heavier, but myasthenia is not obvious, acute stage because of pain judgment motor function is more difficult, can detect foot ptosis, gastrocnemius, tibialis anterior muscle atrophy; Achilles tendon reflex reduced or disappeared, but Achilles tendon reflex can also be normal, knee reflex is normal, shallow sensory disturbance is obvious .

matters needing attention

People suffering from sciatica can rest in bed, or sleep in a hard bed. They should pay more attention to walking and moving joints in their daily life. Serious can cooperate with vitamin B drugs for treatment. Pain can be relieved by taking painkillers.