A recent study gives hope to patients who want to avoid surgery by getting similar long-term outcomes with chiropractic care.

1. Chiropractic
Vs
Surgery
for Chronic Sciatica

3. Suffering from sciatica? A recent study gives hope
to patients who want to avoid surgery by getting
similar long-term outcomes with chiropractic care.
That means most can benefit from a safe, non-
invasive treatment over unnecessary cutting,
anesthesia, and ER time.

4. Imagine you are one of the 40 sciatica sufferers
who participated in the study:
Your sciatica has lasted over 3 months.
Treatment hasn’t helped. This includes pain
medications, lifestyle modifications, physical
therapy, massage therapy, and/or acupuncture.
Finally, your primary care physician referred you
to a spinal surgeon who had deemed you
appropriate surgery candidate. Ouch!

5. You’re in luck! Instead of all 40 patients
proceeding with surgery, you’re randomly split into
two groups.
Your group is treated with standardized
chiropractic spinal manipulation by a single
chiropractor.
The other group undergoes a surgical
microdiscectomy (the surgical removal of
herniated disc material that presses on a nerve
root or the spinal cord).

6. And now for the results…
All of you made significant improvement over your
baseline scores – meaning that you feel
noticeably better as compared with the previous
approaches that had failed.
Better yet, in YOUR group, a full 60% of you
receiving chiropractic care benefited to the SAME
degree as if you had received surgery! And, after
1 year there was no difference in outcome
success based on the treatment method. Not bad,
eh?

7. So, what’s the real score in this clinical study?
Clearly, chiropractic wins. Surgical back
procedures carry more potential risk,
complications after the anesthesia, and expense
than chiropractic care. If properly informed about
the advantages of chiropractic treatment, a higher
percentage of patients with sciatica will consider
spinal manipulation as an option over invasive
surgery.

8. Which group do you want to be in?
In this scenario, you dodged an unnecessary
procedure. Now that it’s up to you, don’t be
caught in the wrong group. There is hope for
sciatica sufferers who haven’t benefitted from
other treatments and want to avoid the risks and
costs of surgery. Always exhaust all other
possibilities first.

9. For those already considering surgery, Dr. Kaster
can perform EMG and NCV tests to determine if
there is any permanent nerve damage secondary
long-term sciatica.
If you’re still confused or having a bit of
apprehension about whether your chronic sciatica
could be treatable under chiropractic care, click
here to read more about Sciatica. You’ll find more
information about sciatica’s symptoms, causes,
and possible treatments, so that you can make a
well-informed decision along the way.

10. Or, if you’re ready to start relieving your pain, we
can help. Dr. Kaster can reduce nerve irritability
responsible for causing inflammation, muscle
spasm, pain, and other symptoms related to
sciatica.
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