If you are suffering from sciatica at home then you will want to make sure and do something about it because if you just stay there and do nothing then what will happen? It could get worse or it could get better, but you just don’t know. The best decision is to go ahead and call your back pain doctor and schedule an appointment to find out what is causing it. Not all doctors can take you in for care the same day so in the mean time you can so start drinking a lot of water and putting ice on the area that is causing you pain. If it hurts in the buttock area then you can place a nice cold ice pack on the bed or a chair and sit on lay on it for a half hour or so. This is the best sciatica at home treatment for the time being until you can get into to the doctors office.
Most people take over the counter anti-inflammatory medication for immediate relief if the pain is very severe and can manage it for a while. It is not advisable to continue too long with this because these are meant for acute situations and are not good for your health long term. Once you go to the doctor’s office you will have a history taken and an exam done to locate what is causing the discomfort. When the problem area is located then you can get a treatment plan.
If you have a herniated disc or spinal stenosis that is causing the pinching of the sciatic nerve then you could possibly benefit greatly from non-surgical spinal decompression. There are clinic locations here in Los Angeles that offers this type of treatment. If there is something such as a sequestered disc fragment then spinal surgery might be the best solution to remove the piece of disc material that is no longer in contact with the annulus fibrosis. This can be diagnosed with the combination of testing and the correlation with positive findings on an MRI or CT scan. When the treatment starts to work and whatever is pinching or has trapped the sciatic nerve is removed or re-located back to where it was before then the inflammation can go down and reduce the pain levels. If you are sitting there at home right now and are in pain, there is hope. Simply find out what is causing it and get the best treatment plan to fix it.
