The radiating pain that travels from your back down through your hip and into your leg is most likely sciatica. This pain impacts about four in ten people at some point. If you’re currently experiencing sciatica pain, these home sciatica exercises can help you to start feeling better today.

In this article, Jeff will demonstrate and explain three of the best sciatica exercises to do at home for pain relief. These sciatica exercises won’t take much time at all and they’ll provide you with instant pain relief.

As outside temperatures drop, your blood flow decreases, causing your muscles to tighten up. Not only does this increase stiffness in muscles and joints, but it also means more pain when you put pressure on sciatica-affected areas.

Since colder weather causes muscles to stiffen up, you are more prone to injury, and injuries can exacerbate an underlying condition, or increase inflammation which can make your sciatic pain worse.

Active Spine and Joint Institute is unlike any other clinic in the area. If you have not come in for a consultation for your chronic pain or neuropathy symptoms, here are 10 reasons why you should give us a call.

Have you recently been diagnosed with arthritis of the knee, or been told that you are “bone-on-bone”?

When patients are first diagnosed with osteoarthritis, it may feel overwhelming, You may be unsure of the best options to manage the painand to prevent further joint damage. And, while many are told that total knee replacement surgery is their only option for relief, there are alternatives that are important to explore before making the commitment to invasive and risky surgery.

So, does bone on bone mean eventual knee surgery? Not necessarily.

Diabetes can damage your nerves over time, making it harder for the nerves to carry messages between the brain and other parts of the body. The nerve damage is called neuropathy. Those with diabetes may suffer from complications like nerve damage, which could prevent you from feeling the pain of an injury in your feet. The practitioners at Active Spine and Joint can help you take control of your neuropathy symptoms before they get worse.

With peripheral neuropathy, the cooler temperatures can make your symptoms worse. As with neuropathy, there is a lack of blood flow to the nerves in your hands and feet and this can be worsened with cold weather. When the temperature drops, your blood vessels will constrict and the result is less blood to your nerves, and less blood may mean more pain and numbness.

What can you do if the cold weather is making your neuropathy symptoms worse?