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By Wayne Hodges sciatica

The Importance of Nutrition During Sciatica Treatment

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Sciatica sufferers often deal with a variety of different symptoms, including a shooting pain down the leg as well as lower back pain. There are various treatments available for sciatica, but it’s also important to focus on nutrition. Many people don’t realize that nutrition plays a vital role in treatment. It can help you to lose weight, maintain proper weight, and feed the body the necessary vitamins and minerals.
Your lower back is in pain because of misalignment, a pinched nerve, and your spine may be supporting extra weight. This extra weight is not helping the situation. What you can do is begin focusing on nutrition so you can lose some of the added pounds and allow your spine to support less weight. This will foster a drastic improvement in how you feel and how effective your sciatica treatment is.

Nutrition will improve your core strength and this is one of the best things you can do to prevent recurring sciatica. There are also various exercises you can do and the proper nutrition will give you the energy and strength to be able to do them. When you can strengthen your core, sciatica may not be such a problem for you.
As you make food choices, there are certain vitamins that you should be paying attention to. This includes Vitamin B. When you eat foods that have high levels of B6 and B12 along with thiamin, it can help to heal the nerves. Some of the foods that are great to eat when you have sciatica include fish, lean pork, sunflower seeds, macadamia nuts, asparagus, and navy beans.
Supplements can also be helpful to ensure that you are getting all of the vitamins and minerals that your body needs. If you make assumptions that your body is healthy, it could be leading to poor organ function as well as your body’s ability to heal itself from damage – including the nerves and bones along your spinal column.
By talking to your chiropractor, you can learn more about the different supplements that can help you and even obtain a nutritional guide to make it easier to select better foods to eat throughout the day. As the saying goes, you are what you eat and if you eat better, healthier foods, it can help your back pain and the shooting pain that you experience from time to time in your leg.
Exercise, painkillers, and other items may be within your treatment plan, but nutrition needs to be there, too. When you focus on nutrition, it can help to reduce your weight and boost your body with more strength to help you overcome the pain.