A Durham Chiropractor comments:

It’s the beginning of another week and everyone here at the Chiropractic & Wellness Center of Durham hopes that all of our readers had a fun and relaxing weekend.  It’s interesting to note however, that some of us define relaxing by climbing mountains, skiing, snowboarding and participating in other activates that might be anything but relaxing.  Some of us can’t wait to get back to work to rest. Ok, maybe not, but your body is probably happy to come down off that adrenaline high it was subjected to.

We recently had a patient from the Raleigh area come in who had one of those so called relaxing weekends. His form of relaxation was rock climbing. Whatever happened to fishing?

The reason for the visit to the Chiropractic & Wellness Center of Durham was a concern with lower back pain that was accompanied by pain running down his right leg. The commute to work was becoming very painful but would subside when he stood up and walked about.  He was describing a classic case of sciatic nerve pain.

The sciatic nerve is the longest nerve in your body which runs from your pelvis, past the hip and buttocks and down the leg.  When this nerve is pinched it produces a burning sensation and pain which is usually felt in the lower back and continues to run down the leg. This pain can vary from a mild ache to a sharp burning sensation or excruciating pain as was the case with our patient.

An MRI discovered a compressed disc that bulged, pinched the nerve and caused that electrifying pain and sensation running down his leg. You would think that he would need extensive surgery but it turned out that with a combination of stretches, deep  tissue massage and the chiropractic care from the Chiropractic & Wellness Center of Durham, our happy climber was back at doing what he loves to do. Yes, that’s right, climbing rocks.

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