Relieving Chiropractic Care Relief of Augusta Leg Pain Right or Left
Left leg. Right leg. Leg pain (aka sciatica) will affect either leg (and sometimes both). Augusta chiropractic care at Lombardy Chiropractic Clinic helps ease leg pain and addresses the spinal cause of the sciatica at the same time. Lombardy Chiropractic Clinic leads Augusta leg pain and back pain patients to pain relief with chiropractic care.
SCIATIC LEG PAIN: Right Leg or Left Leg
You have 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 has it documented in pretty high percentages. Bearing this in mind, it is not surprising that there are more people with longer left legs (53%) than right legs (39%). Incredibly, just 8% of people have equal leg lengths. (1) How does that influence which leg will have radiculopathy? Discs will bulge into the concavity of the curve due to a range 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% happens on the long leg side vs 21.5% on the short leg side. (2,3) Your Augusta chiropractor can measure a short leg pretty easily by checking 3 things: iliac crest, the verticality of the spine, and levelness of the posterosuperior iliac spine dimples. Researchers wrote that there is a solid relationship between visual and xray measurements. (4) Trust your Augusta chiropractor to find 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 examined 75 cases of ruptured lumbar disc herniation. Forty-six of the 75 cases had leg pain radiculopathy: 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) Lombardy Chiropractic Clinic delivers pain easing non-surgical care of Augusta leg pain and back pain.
RELIEF FOR Augusta LEG PAIN and BACK PAIN
And then recall the recent paper about the benefits of chiropractic maintenance care: Maintenance care reduces the number of days of pain for acute back pain episodes and increases the length of pain-free times between recurrent back pain episodes of persistent back pain. (6) Lombardy Chiropractic Clinic is ready for those back pain and leg pain patients looking for fewer days with back and leg pain and those who want to live life with longer periods without leg and back pain.
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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 Augusta chiropractic appointment at Lombardy Chiropractic Clinic now to find relief from Augusta leg pain and sciatica no matter which leg is hurting!
