Treatment of Sciatica | Physiotherapy , Home remedy for sciatica pain - Dr. Suresh Babu Boddu (PT)

The treatment of sciatica includes self-care medication, physical therapy as surgery. In self-care, what we do is applying ice or cold pack and giving rest. Ice packs can be given several times in a day, so 5 to 6 times and after ice packs if the pain is not relieved after 2 days we should go for physical therapy and rest more than 2 days is not advised because rest more than 2 days can aggravate the symptoms. Coming to the treatment non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs can be used, muscle relaxants, aspirin can be used for medication. Coming to the physical therapy, when you approach a physical therapist, he will teach you the lifting techniques and walking techniques. He helps you stretch your muscles and strengthen your muscles. He may use massage, which is therapeutic massage and he may use ultrasound, short wave diathermy and traction can be used. So surgery is a rare condition where we do it, when we do this surgery is when muscle weakness is involved and pain symptoms prolonged for longer time and usually two procedures are done, usually two procedures and done, one is discectomy so where they remove the disks causing the compression and decompression of the nerve they do where there is a stenosis.