Experiencing Sciatica Pain?
Physical Therapy in Bedford, TX Could Provide Relief.
People with sciatica experience pain along the sciatic nerve, which is the largest nerve in your body and runs at the center of your buttock. The sciatic nerve begins at your lower back and then splits at the base of your spine to extend further down through your buttocks, legs, and finally ends at the bottom of each foot.
Sciatica can cause pain in your back, buttocks, hamstrings, legs, and feet, and it can happen all at once. Tightness in the hip and gluteal muscles are typically to blame. As the sciatic nerve passes through these tissues, it may become compressed. You may feel a “shooting,” “stinging,” or “burning” sensation in your lower back, buttocks, legs, or feet if the sciatic nerve is compressed or irritated.
Specific exercises will be prescribed to help you offload the compressed nerve, strengthen, build, and improve the muscles and tissues in your back and legs. Our therapist in Bedford, TX at Beyond Therapy and Wellness may use manual or hands-on therapy, modalities and therapeutic exercise. There will bar certain directions that cause more nerve irritation and certain directions that offload the nerve. Your physical therapist will work with you to determine these specifics for you and eliminate your pain.