Relieving Chiropractic Care Relief of Richmond Leg Pain Right or Left
Left leg. Right leg. Sciatica (aka leg pain) will affect either leg (and sometimes both). Richmond chiropractic care at Johnson Chiropractic helps ease leg pain and focuses on the spinal source of the sciatica at the same time. Johnson Chiropractic guides Richmond 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 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. With this in mind, it’s not surprising that more people have longer left legs (53%) than right legs (39%). Incredibly, only 8% of people have equal leg lengths. (1) How does that influence which leg will have sciatica? Discs will bulge into the concavity of the curve owing to a range of issues like uneven stresses on the anulus of the disc. 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 interesting 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 Richmond 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 stated that there is a solid relationship between visual and xray measurements. (4) Trust your Richmond 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 reported on 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, yes?) 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) Johnson Chiropractic provides pain easing non-surgical care of Richmond leg pain and back pain.
RELIEF FOR Richmond LEG PAIN and BACK PAIN
And then remember the recent paper regarding 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) Johnson Chiropractic is ready for those back pain and leg pain patients seeking fewer back and leg pain days and those who would like 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 Richmond chiropractic appointment at Johnson Chiropractic today to find relief from Richmond leg pain and sciatica regardless of which leg is affected!
