Expert Care for Overcoming Sciatica Nerve Pain
Maybe your spine hurts, or your hip. Maybe it’s been awhile since your legs felt normal, without pain or numbness running down the back of one or both. These might be symptoms of sciatic nerve pain. The condition can be unpredictable — fine some days, stronger on others. Know that relief is within reach.
With the help of the experienced medical teams at AdventHealth, you can manage and alleviate your sciatica pain. By finding the underlying condition that’s causing your lower-back and leg pain, we can help you choose a sciatica pain treatment plan that’s designed to ease your discomfort — for life.
Get Back to Doing the Things You Love
- Diagnosing Sciatica
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Let’s start with a physical exam. From the legs up, we’ll figure out how your pain is distributed — and how to treat it effectively. Think about when lower-back or leg pain started. How severe is it? Does it get worse when you sit or stand? These questions and more will give your care team at AdventHealth a full picture of the cause of your sciatica pain. Your doctor may also perform a neurological exam to test your reflexes and make sure your nervous system is functioning properly.
- Identifying the Cause of Your Sciatica
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Your sciatic pain, which may be a whisper on some days and a full-blown trumpet call the next, is a symptom of an underlying condition. Some common causes of sciatic nerve pain include:
- Degenerative Disc Disease
- Herniated Disc
- Muscle Spasms
- Pregnancy
- Spinal Stenosis
- Spondylolisthesis
Once we know the root cause of your sciatica pain, we will develop a tailored care plan to help your find relief. Throughout your sciatica pain treatment, we'll be there to answer your questions and provide the information you need to feel comfortable throughout your recovery.
- Proven Sciatica Pain Treatment
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You want comfort now — but not just for now, for the rest of your life. To help make sure your sciatic nerve pain doesn’t get worse over time, AdventHealth provides immediate relief and long-term solutions. Most cases of sciatic pain call for a combination of non-surgical treatments, like ice, heat, medication, and stretching exercises. Some medication options can include:
- Antidepressants
- Muscle Relaxants for Spasms
- Over-the-Counter Medications Like Aspirin, Acetaminophen, or Naproxen
- Steroid Injections
For more serious sciatica nerve pain, another option is surgery. Trust that we’ll use minimally invasive procedures, whenever possible, to get you back to your life faster. Some surgical options for sciatica pain treatment include:
- Lumbar laminectomy, which relieves pinched nerves caused by spinal stenosis.
- Microdiscectomy, which removes part of a herniated disc and eases pain.
Your options don’t end there. Physical therapy helps you ease back into activity and restore your body to peak form. Our therapists can also teach you exercises to strengthen the muscles surrounding your problem area — and prevent flare-ups of sciatica nerve pain in the future. At every point, we’ll work with you to make sure you’re well on your way to your goal of whole-person wellness now and throughout your life.
Spine Care You Can Count On
Using spinal surgery as a last resort, we concentrate on treating you with nonsurgical therapies such as pain management, physical therapy, and spinal regenerative techniques.