Right leg. Left leg. Sciatic leg
pain will affect either leg
(and sometimes both). Williamson chiropractic care at Apple Country Chiropractic
helps decrease leg pain and focuses on
the spinal cause of the sciatica at the same time. Apple Country Chiropractic guides
Williamson leg pain and back pain patients to pain relief with chiropractic care.
SCIATIC LEG PAIN: Right Leg or Left Leg
You’ve heard of right-handed people and left-handed
people, right? Of course, you have! Did you know that the left leg grows longer in right-handed people and the right
leg grows longer in left-handed people? Not 100% of the time, but
research documents this differeence.
Bearing this in mind, it’s not surprising that there are more people with longer left legs (53%) than right
legs (39%). Amazingly, only 8% of people have equal
leg lengths. (1) How does that impact
which leg will have sciatica? Discs will
bulge into the concavity of the curve due to a variety
of issues like uneven stresses on the disc’s anulus. The
concavity of the spinal curve is on the long leg side. A right-handed person
with a long left leg will likely have leg pain
on the left side. Another curious point: hip pain often occurs
on the long leg side, too: 88.9% long leg and 11.1% short leg.
Sciatica, too: 78.5% occurs on the long
leg side and 21.5% on the short leg side. (2,3) Your
Williamson chiropractor can spot a short leg pretty
simply by examining 3 things: iliac
crest, the verticality of the spine, and levelness of the posterosuperior iliac
spine dimples. Researchers wrote that there is a strong
relationship between visual and xray measurements. (4) Trust your Williamson
chiropractor to see a short leg…and take care of any related
disc herniation causes of pain!
DISC HERNIATION RE-ABSORPTION WITH NON-SURGICAL CARE
A new study reported on 75 cases of ruptured
lumbar disc herniation. 46 of the 75 cases had
radiating leg pain: 46 cases on the left and 29 on
the right. (Makes sense now, right?)
At 5 years follow-up after non-surgical treatment, a
“reabsorption” phenomenon was noted. The excellent and good rate of disc reabsorption
was 73.24%. (5) Apple Country Chiropractic provides pain easing
non-surgical care of Williamson leg pain and back pain.
RELIEF FOR Williamson LEG PAIN and BACK PAIN
And then remember the new paper about
the benefits of chiropractic maintenance care: Maintenance care reduces
the number of days of pain for acute back pain
episodes and raises the length of pain-free times
between back pain
episodes in patients with recurrent and persistent back pain. (6) Apple Country Chiropractic
is here for those back pain and leg pain patients looking
for fewer days with back and leg
pain and those who would like to live life with fewer periods
of leg and back pain.
CONTACT Apple Country Chiropractic
Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. Cameron McConville on the
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he shares how
the Cox®
Technic System of Spinal Pain Management eases
sciatic leg pain radiculopathy along with related back pain
issues.
Schedule your Williamson chiropractic appointment at
Apple Country Chiropractic today to find relief from Williamson
leg pain and sciatica regardless of which leg is affected!