Relieving Chiropractic Care Relief of Carrolltown Leg Pain Right or Left
Left leg. Right leg. Sciatica (aka leg pain) will affect either leg (and sometimes both). Carrolltown chiropractic care at Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation helps reduce leg pain and focuses on the spinal cause of the sciatica at the same time. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation guides Carrolltown 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? Sure! Did you know that the right leg grows longer in left-handed people and the left leg grows longer in right-handed people? Not all the time, but research documents this differeence. Bearing this in mind, it is not surprising that there are more people with longer left legs (53%) than right legs (39%). Incredibly, only 8% of people have equal leg lengths. (1) What role does that play in which leg will have sciatic leg pain? 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 left leg pain. Another curious point: hip pain often occurs on the long leg side, too: 88.9% long leg vs 11.1% short leg. Sciatica, too: 78.5% occurs on the long leg side versus 21.5% on the short leg side. (2,3) Your Carrolltown 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 strong relationship between visual and xray measurements. (4) Trust your Carrolltown chiropractor to see a short leg…and address any related disc herniation sources of pain!
DISC HERNIATION RE-ABSORPTION WITH NON-SURGICAL CARE
A new study studied 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 seen. The excellent and good rate of disc reabsorption was 73.24%. (5) Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation provides pain easing non-surgical care of Carrolltown leg pain and back pain.
RELIEF FOR Carrolltown LEG PAIN and BACK PAIN
And then remember the new paper about the benefits of chiropractic maintenance care: Maintenance care reduces the number of painful days for acute back pain episodes and increases the length of pain-free periods between recurrent back pain episodes of persistent back pain. (6) Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation is here for those back pain and leg pain patients wanting fewer back and leg pain days 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 describes how the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management eases sciatic leg pain radiculopathy as well as related back pain issues.
Schedule your Carrolltown chiropractic appointment at Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation now to get relief from Carrolltown leg pain and sciatica no matter which leg is hurting!
