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Nearly everyone will have back pain at some point in their life, but with true sciatica —you’ll know something is different right away!

So, what is sciatica? What is sciatica pain like?

Sciatica really describes a set of symptoms rather than a condition. The most common symptom can be described as pain that begins in your lower back, travels down through your buttocks, and extends down your leg, usually on just one side of the body.

The shooting pain down your leg is often caused by compression of the sciatic nerve or one or more of the other nerves exiting your spine. Even a tiny amount of pressure can result in a tremendous amount of pain.

Getting rid of the associated inflammation and then opening up space for the nerve are both essential beginning steps to finding relief.

That’s where we come in as chiropractors.

If you’re looking for a sciatica doctor in Hallettsville, TX, you’ve come to the right place.

We specialize in providing gentle spinal manipulative therapy to help you fix your sciatica pain naturally. The severity of sciatica pain causes many people to think their “condition” is so serious it can only be healed by a surgeon. Or that they must get spinal injections. Or that they must resort to prescription pain medications.

So, when patients are told that chiropractic treatment can provide the same level of pain relief as those invasive interventions — it sounds too good to be true.

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Life is motion. “Motion is lotion” for your body. You get the idea. The point is that moving every day is crucial to your overall health and wellness, and stretching (and knowing how to stretch properly) is an important part to making sure you’re moving well.

The truth is, stretching is an often overlooked element of self care. That’s a big part of why we teach stretch therapy in Hallettsville, TX. Many of us think the need to stretch applies only to athletes or that we need to commit to yoga for stretching to help us.

This simply is not true. Consider this. When you wake up in the morning or stir from a nap, what’s the first thing you tend to do? Stretch! It’s almost as if your body is trying to tell you something, isn’t it? Incorporating stretches and exercises that focus on flexibility into your daily routine, whatever it may be, can help your body maintain the ability to move through its full range of motion without pain.

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Posture can either work for or against us. Each day we’re learning more and more about new health conditions associated with prolonged sitting, ill-positioned technology, and even furniture that may have been repurposed to suit the frantic requirements levied at the start of the pandemic. It’s obvious that it’s never been more important to find the best posture for working at our computers.

We’re also learning more about how emotions, posture, and pain sensitivity may all be influenced by each other to some degree. In fact, posture and depression may be connected. Consider this. Have you ever been able to tell someone’s mood just by how they walked into a room? We all have! It’s a great example of how our posture and attitude are connected.

Within seconds you can look at someone and tell whether they are confident or happy. Posture can influence mood and vice versa for a number of reasons. Let’s take a closer look at posture and depression.

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It’s certainly true your genetics can contribute a lot to the levels of postural stress you experience, but so can many of the small decisions you make each day. You’ve probably seen an article or two floating around the web about the relationship between tech neck and pain.

Did you know that many of us spend 2 hours or more per day on our smartphones and 5 hours or more on our computers? That adds up to thousands of hours year after year after year of you keeping your neck “stuck” in an awkward position!

Take a moment right now and check… Is your head creeping forward as you read this? If your chin is tucked down and your ears are in front of your shoulders, you are in the forward head posture called tech neck. You may have also heard this posture referred to as “text neck.”

Driving a car, working on the computer, and using a tablet or phone all usually result in this less-than-ideal posture. Over the past few years, the number of people experiencing headaches and tech neck and pain has exploded.