A slipped disk is really a misnomer. It’s not really a disk that slips out of between your bony structures, your vertebrae in your body. What a slipped disk is, or we call it a prolapsed, or a bulging disk, is actually a weakened structure in the outer layers of...
We can tell which levels of your spine have been injured by your symptoms that you tell us. That helps us determine or diagnose exactly which levels have been herniated or prolapsed. Do you think you have a slipped disk? Call Denver Integrated Spine today and we can...
Sciatic pain is a impingement of the sciatic nerve. The sciatic nerve is the largest nerve in the spine; it’s the longest nerve. It comes out of the lower back, goes down through the buttock area, down into the leg and people typically feel a numbness, burning...
There are two major reasons for a sciatic condition. Number one is a herniated disc in the lower back. Another issue is you could have spasms in a couple of the muscles in what we call the hip rotator; the muscles in the buttock area. If you think you have sciatic...
The best stretches you can do at home to help alleviate sciatic pain are two basic stretches: number one is to lay flat on your back, bring your knees to your chest, and hug your knees toward your chest and roll back and forth and that will help stretch the muscles in...
There are two basic stretches that will help open up the disc spaces in the lower back. The important thing is to actually determine which of the two conditions is causing our sciatic pain and to get that looked at. If you’re looking for relief from your sciatic...
