Sharp, shooting, traveling pain — and the long nerve underneath all of it. Real relief without back surgery.
The sciatic nerve runs from your lower spine, through your buttock, down the back of your leg. It's the longest and widest nerve in the body. When something compresses or irritates it, the result isn't subtle: sharp pain that travels, burning, tingling, numbness in the leg or foot — often on just one side. Sometimes it shows up after one specific moment (you bent down to grab a pen). Often it builds over years and the pen was just the last straw.
Patients describe sciatica in extremes. Mild ache one week. Unbearable, lights-out pain the next. It comes and goes — and if it isn't addressed at the source, it tends to come back stronger.
Sciatic pain almost always traces back to the lumbar spine or the pelvis. Compressed discs, joint misalignments, and inflammation along the nerve root are the usual culprits. Pinning down the exact source is its own job — and it's the first thing we do.
From there, treatment focuses on taking pressure off the nerve and giving the disc room to recover. That means specific spinal adjustments, often combined with non-surgical spinal decompression for cases where the disc is bulging into the nerve. Most patients see significant improvement well before they would have needed surgery — and back surgery for sciatica has a discouraging long-term success rate.
Recovery time varies. The longer it's been there, the longer it usually takes to unwind. Good news: it almost always takes less time to fix than it took to create.
Pick up the phone. Tell us what's going on. We'll be straight with you about whether we can help — and if yes, the next step is a $37 starting consultation.