Relieving Chiropractic Care Relief of Toronto Leg Pain Right or Left
Right leg. Left leg. Sciatica (aka leg pain) will affect either leg (and sometimes both). Toronto chiropractic care at Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre helps alleviate leg pain and focuses on the spinal cause of the sciatica at the same time. Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre guides Toronto 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? Yes! 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. Bearing this in mind, it is not surprising that more people have longer left legs (53%) than right legs (39%). Amazingly, just 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 experience leg pain on the left side. Another curious point: hip pain often occurs on the long leg side, too: 88.9% long leg versus 11.1% short leg. Sciatica is the same: 78.5% happens on the long leg side versus 21.5% on the short leg side. (2,3) Your Toronto chiropractor can spot a short leg pretty simply by examining 3 things: iliac crest, the verticality of the spine, and levelness of the posterosuperior iliac spine dimples. Researchers noted that there is a strong relationship between visual and xray measurements. (4) Trust your Toronto chiropractor to see a short leg…and address any related disc herniation causes of pain!
DISC HERNIATION RE-ABSORPTION WITH NON-SURGICAL CARE
A new study studied 75 cases of ruptured lumbar disc herniation. Forty-six of the 75 cases had radiating leg pain: 46 cases on the left and 29 on the right. (Makes sense now, right?) At 5 years post- non-surgical treatment, a “reabsorption” phenomenon was seen. The excellent and good rate of disc reabsorption was 73.24%. (5) Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre delivers relieving non-surgical care of Toronto leg pain and back pain.
RELIEF FOR Toronto LEG PAIN and BACK PAIN
And then remember the recent paper about the benefits of chiropractic maintenance care: Maintenance care decreases the number of painful days in acute back pain episodes and increases the length of pain-free periods between back pain episodes in patients with recurrent and persistent back pain. (6) Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre is here for those back pain and leg pain patients looking for fewer days with back and leg pain 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 along with related back pain issues.
Schedule your Toronto chiropractic appointment at Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre today to find relief from Toronto leg pain and sciatica no matter which leg is hurting!
