Spinal Decompression for Sciatica: What to Expect

Your sciatic nerve is the largest in your body. It starts in your spine and travels through your pelvis, into each buttock, and ends in your thighs. The sciatic nerve transports fibers required for movement and sensations and also plays a key role in your mobility. 

If your sciatic nerve gets compressed, irritated, or injured, it can cause pain and tingling along the nerve’s path. The pain and other associated symptoms are referred to as sciatica. 

Anything that affects your sciatic nerve can lead to sciatica, but more common causes include herniated discs, spinal stenosis, and degenerative disc disease. Being pregnant often puts undue pressure on your sciatic nerve, leading to subsequent nerve pain. 

Thankfully, many treatments can relieve nerve pain and discomfort associated with sciatica. One option that’s incredibly effective is spinal decompression. Our chiropractic team at Anodyne Pain and Wellness Solutions in Newark, Delaware, offers this innovative treatment for many spine-related conditions, including sciatica.

What is spinal decompression?

The term “spinal decompression” refers to a broad series of treatments that aim to take pressure off your spine and relieve any pain. Some treatments are surgical, but others aren’t. 

At Anodyne Pain and Wellness Solutions, we offer a spinal decompression therapy technique that utilizes motorized traction to create more negative space between your spinal discs (vertebrae). By using traction spinal decompression, we can stretch out and realign your spine, which changes its force and position. This not only relieves pressure on your sciatic nerve but allows healing oxygen and nutrients to flow freely toward the source of nerve compression. 

The goal of spinal decompression therapy is to deal with the root cause of your pain and provide relief.

What happens during spinal decompression?

At Anodyne Pain and Wellness Solutions, we use the therapeutic spinal decompression device called Accu-SPINA®. The technology that accompanies it allows us to be incredibly precise in our treatment, so we can target the exact area that’s triggering your sciatica. 

When you come in for spinal decompression therapy, you lie down on the traction table before we secure your trunk and pelvis with a harness. Our expert team member then uses the Accu-SPINA technology to stretch and realign your spine for optimal pain relief. 

Each session takes about 45 minutes, and you may need several sessions to achieve successful results. We also recommend that you supplement spinal decompression with chiropractic adjustments, which are always effective at treating sciatica. 

Get pain relief with spinal decompression

To learn if spinal decompression can help treat your sciatica, schedule a consultation with our team by calling our office or using our online booking feature today.