The sciatic nerve is the largest neural trunk of all that exists in the body. It contains the plexus of the nerve fibers from the spine, lumbar and sacral parts of the spinal cord. When this nerve is squeezed, a person not only suffers severe pain, but remains immobilized for a while. Treatment of pinch of the sciatic nerve is mainly performed at home, although sometimes only professionals in the hospital can return to normal life.
Treatment of sciatica in the home
Treatment of sciatica (this is how the scientific name of the pinch of the sciatic nerve sounds) should be complex. The patient should reconsider and correct the mode of motor activity. All household matters that require physical exertion must be temporarily shifted to relatives - otherwise the treatment process will last for many months. And with muscle spasms, you can not move at all.
Very often, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and analgesics are used to treat pinching of the sciatic nerve at home. Medications used inside, are not always effective, but special ointments, gels and rubbers can alleviate the condition of the patient. Using the latter, one should avoid getting them on the mucous membranes.
There are other secrets of treating the sciatic nerve at home:
- Mild pain, concentrated in the buttocks, you can try to cure on the bar. Depend a little, loosening your lower back, straightening your arms and pulling your knees up.
- With sciatica, a warm shower manages. Aim the streams on your back and begin to gradually tilt. Stop when painful feelings appear. After a few seconds, repeat the exercise, just bending back. Remember that you can not continue this water massage for more than 20 minutes.
- Wax applications are very effective. Melt the beeswax and apply it with a brush to the patient, pretreated with a fat cream, place. Wrap up the application and remove the blanket only when the back is warmed up well. Sometimes salt is used instead of wax to treat the sciatic nerve at home.
- Contains pain and improves overall well-being with a special elastic waistband. It is worn at the waist and supports the spine.
- Some patients are cured of sciatica by cold: dry ice or an ice towel soaked in icy water. The only condition - to apply cold in any case can not be to the warm waist.
Parallel with the treatment of the pinch of the sciatic nerve at home, patients are prescribed physiotherapy procedures:
- acupuncture;
- massage;
- manual therapy ;
- reflexology;
- thermal procedures;
- mud treatment;
- treatment with leeches;
- phytotherapy;
- electrostimulation.
Treatment of neuritis of the sciatic nerve at home by folk methods
To rely exclusively on the recipes of traditional medicine during the treatment of sciatica is not worth it. But to use some tips for maintaining the body can be quite:
- To strengthen the sciatic nerve helps the decoction on the basis of aspen leaves.
Dry the mixture with pour boiling water and cook for about ten minutes. Ingest or use for compresses. - Massage with sciatica will be more effective if done with honey.
- Remove the inflammation and ease the pain will help decoction of elecampane and calendula.
- Instead of an ointment to treat neuralgia of the sciatic nerve at home, you can use a mixture of Analgin, iodine and 70 percent alcohol solution. To insist such a remedy should be in the dark about three days. Apply it recommended before bedtime.