Sciatica Nerve Osteopathy Treatments

Osteopathic Treatment Clinic for the Sciatica Nerve covering Croydon & the Surrounding areas

Symptoms may include pain, tingling, numbness or weakness and vary from mild to severe.

What is Sciatica?

Sciatica is when a nerve (the sciatic nerve), which runs from your low back down to your feet becomes irritated and can cause a range of symptoms. Symptoms may include pain, tingling, numbness or weakness and vary from mild to severe. Sciatica is a defined medical term, but it is often used in non-medical settings as a generic term to cover pain or symptoms in the leg.

Where is the sciatic nerve?

The sciatic nerve runs down the back of each leg, from your low back to your feet, and sciatica is a common condition that lots of people come to our clinic for.

Think You Are Suffering From Sciatica?

Firstly an assessment by a professional, such as our osteopaths, is vitally important.

Although many patients who come to our sciatica clinic are treated successfully, diagnosing the cause of your sciatica is paramount.

The causes range from disc bulge, disc prolapse, muscle tension or auto immune conditions. If sciatica is diagnosed, we work with you to develop a treatment and management plan that is best suited to you.

There are a number of things that you can do to help yourself and when you see one of our qualified osteopaths, we will be able to advise on the specifics of your situation.

What Can Help to Ease Sciatica?

Try to continue with normal activities. Gentle movements to keep the back flexible can also be helpful. Staying in one position for a long time is best avoided. Whilst you can sometimes get comfortable at the time, you are better to try to continue with normal gentle movements – this can help you with a speedier, more complete recovery.

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Are You Experiencing Tingling, Numbness or Weakness?

These can be part of the normal symptoms of sciatica and so are common place. At Sanderstead Osteopaths, we assess a patient’s neurological system using standard clinical tests.

Your nervous system contains your nerves, including the sciatic nerve, and this means we can assess how well they are working. This may include tests such as taking your reflexes, testing whether you are able to feel things normally and whether your muscles are as strong as usual.

It is likely that we will perform a range of other tests and assessments and this will depend on your individual situation.

Once we have conducted a full evaluation, we will then discuss appropriate osteopathic treatment. If we think you might benefit from referral to your GP or further tests such as an MRI, we would discuss that with you too.

How Do Our Osteopaths Treat Patient With Sciatica?

This will depend on your own situation and evaluation but will be tailored to your needs by our qualified osteopaths.

Typically, the treatments offered may include a range of hands-on techniques, advice about exercise and returning to activity, as well as suggesting ways that you can manage your pain.

We will spend time discussing what sciatica is, so that you can understand what is going on and how you can help your own recovery.

What do I do now?

Simply send us an email to hello@sanderstead-osteopaths.co.uk or give us a call on 0208 776 0964 to have a chat about how we could help you get relief from sciatica.

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How Much Does Osteopathy Treatment Cost?

New Patients

£80
1 Hour Treatment

Returning Patients

£55
30 Minute Treatment

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