Alternative Treatments For Sciatica & Back Pain

There are many different treatments for sciatica and back pain, some of which are described as "alternative". These include acupuncture, reiki, herbal or traditional medicines, chiropractic treatment (although this is now widely accepted as mainstream) and so on.

These articles give you an insight into these alternative treatments so you decide if you want to try them for your sciatica and back pain.

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• Back Pain and Alternative Solutions Like Acupuncture and Chiropractic

I started having back pains a few years ago. The kind that shoot down your leg and make it difficult to walk. The doctors first tried physical therapy and I tried some Chiropractors on...

• Acupuncture and Back Pain

Research carried out in 2002 indicated that almost 80% of the worlds population would suffer from some kind of back pain with lower back pain being the most common type. In addition to the high rate of...

• How Reiki Can Help You Stop Back Pain & Improve Your Health

Reiki is a Japanese word meaning "universal life force energy". It is a simple, natural and safe method of spiritual healing and self-improvement that everyone can use... 

• Understanding The Link Between Your Energy Systems, Health & Back Pain

"In every culture and in every medical tradition before ours, healing was accomplished by moving energy." Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Nobel Laureate in Medicine ...

• Joint Pain and Back Pain: Symptoms, Herbal Remedies Discussed

Joint pain is a common symptom with many possible causes. There are many possible causes of joint pain. The causes can be divided into categories: wear-and-tear, such...

• How Chiropractors Treat Sciatica

Chiropractors regard your spine as the major influence on your overall health, because all the organs in your body depend upon the spinal cord (nerve) for the transmission of vital messages relayed backwards and forwards ...

• Hear a Chiropractor Talk About Looking After Your Back

Brett Grant has practised since 1996. He is an experienced Chiropractor who gets great results for the patients with back pain in his practice. According to Brett, most of the sciatica and back pain we feel is caused by misuse of what we've got, and then continued misuse ...