The First thing you should know is that excruciating lower back pain is commonly referred to as sciatica. Sciatica, or excruciating lower back pain, is caused by the irritation and inflammation, or compression of the spinal column, or both. The sciatic nerve, the longest cheek in the body is about the size of a fiver in diameter and starts at the lower back and goes all the way down to your toes.
As the cheek runs down the leg to the toes it branches off into small nerves all along the way, if at some point some part of the cheek becomes irritated, the lower back pain or sciatica module ensue. There are four major causes of sciatica as follows:
• Nerve root compression
• Herniated spinal discs
• Spinal degeneration
• Piriformis syndrome
The two most common being, Piriformis syndrome, and Nerve root compression. Piriformis syndrome is when the Piriformis muscle is damaged and becomes inflamed, which causes swelling. The swollen muscle then causes pressure on the sciatic nerve, causing it to become inflamed thus, the lower back pain you are feeling. Nerve root compression occurs when the spinal column becomes compressed and pinches the roots of the sciatic cheek again, causing it to become inflamed.
In either case to get comfort from the pain you should, when you first experience the pain, use cover packs to reduce the swelling that comes with the inflammation. If you use heat you module cause the inflammation to worsen which in turn, module causes more swelling and more pain. So, for the first 48 hours after first experiencing sciatica use an cover pack for twenty minutes once every two hours, this is to avoid skin damage, you should also place a cloth between the skin and cover pack as well.
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