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Home » Blog » Sciatica Leg Pain: Can It Be Cured?

Sciatica Leg Pain: Can It Be Cured?

April 26, 2018

If you’ve had sciatica leg pain, you know it can be miserable—shooting pain in your leg and sometimes tingling, weakness, or numbness. 

Sciatica pain starts when something in your body, often a herniated disk, is pressing on the sciatic nerve, which runs from the lower back down the back of your legs.

The good news is that most people with sciatica start to feel better within a few weeks.  For some, though, the pain continues for a year or longer.

Fortunately, there are many strategies you can try for sciatica leg pain relief.

In this blog, we’ll break down the following strategies for sciatica leg pain relief:

  • Exercises
  • Medication
  • Alternative therapies
  • Epidural steroid injections
  • Nerve blocks
  • Radiofrequency ablation
  • Spinal cord stimulation
  • Surgery

Exercises

Building up the muscles that support your spine and stretching the leg muscles involved in sciatica leg pain can help. A physical therapist can make sure you’re doing the exercises correctly so that you get the most out of them and don’t hurt yourself. If you’re in too much pain for exercise, steroid injections may bring you enough relief to get started.

Medication

Over-the-counter acetaminophen or nonsteroidal inflammatory drugs such as naproxen and ibuprofen are enough to get many people through the pain. Other patients may need muscle relaxants, antidepressants, or opiate pain relievers, although medications must be taken with care to avoid becoming dependent on them.

Alternative Therapies

Chiropractic treatment, acupuncture, and massage therapy are sometimes used either alone or in combination with other treatments to treat sciatica leg pain.

Epidural Steroid Injections

Some patients are able to get relief lasting three to four months from steroid injections.

Nerve Blocks

Injection of nerve-numbing medication into the area that is the source of the pain may be recommended for some patients.

Radiofrequency Ablation

In this minimally invasive procedure, nerve fibers in the back that carry pain signals are destroyed to block the pain.

Spinal Cord Stimulation

If other options aren’t working, your doctor may recommend spinal cord stimulation, in which a device that delivers mild electrical pulses is implanted near the spinal cord to block pain signals.

Surgery

Most patients with sciatica will not need surgery, but it can be an option if disabling pain isn’t responding to other treatments.

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The information contained in this article is for educational purposes only and is not intended to replace or counter a physician’s advice or judgment. Please always consult your physician before taking any advice learned here or in any other educational medical material.

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