How Many of Us Have Pain Down the Leg?
Wednesday October 22, 2008
According to a recent review of medical studies, sciatica, or pain down the leg to due lesions in the spine, may affect up to 43% of people. But it may also affect as few as 1.2% of the population. The researchers said that most of the studies they had to go on defined sciatica differently, which was one of the reasons for such a large range in the estimate.
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Decompression therapy has successfully treated many back pain sufferers who received insufficient results with traditional treatment methods such as physical therapy, pain medications, acupuncture, bed rest, etc. Usually decompression therapy will get rid of your leg pain and sciatica pain from a disc herniation. Spinal Decompression Therapy utilizes a machine that applies a medical technology approved by FDA, which gently stretch the spine, gradually reducing the pressure on the affected discs by slowly drawing the vertebrae apart. Visit this website for information Click here to read on Spinal Decompression
Quite often this condition is most certainly not a surgical consideration. If drugs and shots didn’t work, you may want to consider non-surgical spinal decompression. It is very safe and is quite successful.