Acupuncture for sciatica
Most people are suffering from chronic back pains or aches that will not let you do your everyday activities comfortably. Many severe pains will not allow any person to live peacefully, but one of the most affecting pain is sciatic pain. Sciatic pain is a pain that will usually affect only one side of the body. It extends from the lower back to the buttocks and legs as well. The most significant thing is that any person suffering from the sciatic pain will have to suffer from the pain in the single side of the body. The person suffering from sciatic pain has so many things that he/she can not be able to do correctly. Such as person suffering from sciatic pain is not able to sit correctly, stand comfortably, or bend without aching in the legs. There is a continuous aching in the lower body parts.
As you know that the acupuncture treatment method is the ongoing trend nowadays that can be able to relieve the person from every kind of pains and aches. Therefore when the researchers suggest that the acupuncture method is effective on the sciatic pains, most doctors and physicians did begin to recommend Acupuncture to the patients suffering from sciatic pain. The acupuncture method will effectively eliminate all the pain or aches caused by sciatica. Traditional Chinese Medicine believes that the use of the acupuncture method, along with the essential herbs, will be able to treat sciatica within a few weeks. Although the treatment method takes a considerable amount of time, the person suffering from sciatica will be relieved from the pain. Sciatica can cause burning or tingle in the legs or constant pain on one side of buttocks or numbness in lower body parts. The sciatic pain is unbearable sometimes.
Causes of Sciatica
Sciatica pain can be caused by the pain in the sciatic nerve that originates from the lower back then goes down the buttocks and goes through the end of each leg. The long term degeneration of the lumbar area can be able to cause sometimes severe damage in the lower back. This acute injury to the lower back or the structural impingement of the sciatic nerve in the lower back may result in sciatica or sciatic pain. The compression of the sciatic nerve will be able to cause the pain at the end of the legs, buttocks, and lower back. But the actual location of the sciatic pain will be able to depend on the place where the sciatic nerves will be compressed. Some common causes of sciatic pain involve:
- Degeneration disc disease
- Lumbar spinal stenosis or narrowing of the spinal canal
- Spondylolisthesis
- Increased pressure on the lumbar spine during pregnancy
How Acupuncture is beneficial?
Acupuncture method is nowadays becoming more and more popular due to its amazing benefits of healing the person using the acupuncture method of every kind of pain or aches. The acupuncture method will use the small, thin, and sharp needles to relieve the distress or aches in different parts of the body. The needles are inserted in the skin at different meridian points at a specific depth. There are only 14 meridian points through which more than 2000 acupuncture points are stimulated and triggered. The triggering of these acupuncture points or meridian points will direct the flow of the energy or Qi(Chi) in the body. It is believed that various kinds of pains, sickness, diseases, or aches can take place due to the imbalance in the energy flowing through the body. So the acupuncture method will restore the balance of the energy flow in the body.
When the needles are inserted into the skin at various meridian points, then it will trigger the central nervous system as well as the nerves that the meridian points connect to. The acupuncture method will be able to increase the blood circulation in the body, which will result in heart-pumping more amount of blood and lungs inhaling more oxygen with each breath. So the blood will reach all the parts of the body, and if there is any ache due to the reaching of insufficient blood or oxygen to the elements, then it will be cured. The increase of blood flow to the painful area will also lessen the pain that you are suffering from. Also, the insertion of needles in the body will increase the production of the natural happiness hormones in the body i.e., Endorphins. Endorphins will divert your mind from pain to relaxation and happiness.
The acupuncture method will not only relieve you from the unbearable pain that you are suffering from but will also enhance your mood. It will relax the user from all the stress, tension, frustration, and anxiety that is caused due to the imbalance of home and work-life. Therefore the use of the acupuncture method will be useful for treating the sciatica pain. But you must make sure that you must only choose a licensed acupuncturist to prevent any side effects and risks. An experienced and licensed acupuncturist is all you need for treating the sciatica pain.