Sciatica Research Today is a free monthly online journal that collates and summarizes the latest research about Sciatica, including details on treatment, prevention, medication.

Recommended Books on Sciatica

Body Reflexology: Healing at Your Fingertips Hardcover version of Body Reflexology by Mildred Carter, author of "Hand Reflexology: Key to Perfect Health". Special reflex massage techniques to send healing flow to affected areas to relieve 34 illnesses.

Spinal Stabilization : The New Science of Back Pain Spinal Stabilization - The New Science of Back Pain - is a book for all `back owners'. This easy to read manual, written for the non-medical professional, describes cutting-edge advances in the field of back injury rehabilitation and athletic conditioning. Complete with over one hundred illustrations and photos, this new approach allows people with back pain to gain control of their symptoms, often more effectively than with more traditional methods including sit-ups, back extensions, pain medications or spinal manipulation/adjustment.

For readers interested in using the popular `SwissBall' as part of their fitness or sport conditioning programs, Spinal Stabilization includes a chapter on stability training for athletes. Regardless of your sport or whether you consider yourself a recreational or a competitive athlete, increased trunk stability will lead to improved sport performance. Runners, swimmers and other endurance athletes will notice improvements in their aerobic efficiency while football, baseball, hockey and other power-sport athletes will be able to generate more power in their legs, shoulders and arms as a result of improved energy transfer through the trunk. Athletes who require a high degree of balance skill (gymnasts, figure skaters, rowers) will benefit dramatically from stability ball training as they develop stability-based strength and improved body-position sense. Many of the more advanced exercises demonstrated in the book will challenge even elite level athletes!

Whether you are a person recovering from spinal surgery, a person with chronic `non-specific low back pain' or an athlete looking for improved sport performance, this unique book will help you achieve your goals!

Background ...

Over the past decade researchers from around the world have redefined how the human spine works in healthy people and how back injury affects normal spinal function. The result of this work has been a dramatic change in the way rehabilitation professionals use exercise to treat people with low back pain.

While textbooks, videos and courses on the topic of spinal stabilization training are now widely available for health care professionals, there is little in the way of comprehensive, accurate information designed for the lay person with back pain. Spinal Stabilization - The New Science of Back Pain, addresses this problem. For people with either acute or chronic low back problems, the book is best used in conjunction with direct treatment by a health care professional. For people with a healthy back but who want a stronger, more functional and injury resistant spine, the techniques in the book may be used with or without the guidance of a rehabilitation professional.

Concise, understandable chapters on spinal anatomy and biomechanics as well as common spinal conditions and diagnoses provide readers with an appreciation for the unique benefits of the spinal stabilization approach and why it is more scientifically sound than any traditional form of rehabilitative exercise. The techniques of spinal stabilization training are then described, both in words and pictures, leaving the reader with a more complete understanding of `how to do it right'.

Ultimately the book will serve as an excellent home exercise guide for people who want to own a high-functioning, injury-resistant spine. All information presented in the book is supported by high-quality research studies; a complete reference list of over 100 scientific articles and texts is included.

Back Talk: How to Diagnose and Cure Low Back Pain and Sciatica A must for the millions who experience lower back pain. A friendly, practical guide to coping with lower back pain--from pinpointing problems to determining proper treatment. The sometimes crippling, often prolonged back pain that afflicts 2.5 million Americans at one time or another is harder to diagnose than it is to cure. Dr. Loren Fishman, a distinguished clinician and a trailblazer in the treatment of sciatica, believes there's only one road to relief: patients must become partners with their doctors in finding the cause of their pain and in making treatment decisions. Back Talk teaches patients which specialist to see, how to talk to doctors responsibly, what a physical exam should entail, and when to consent to diagnostic testing. It offers clear advice about treatment, surgery, and strategies for pain control.

Based on the latest research and Dr. Fishman's fifteen years of experience in successfully treating patients, Back Talk is filled with pain-saving advice and instructional facts:
* most back pain is curable; less than 10 percent becomes chronic
* more than four days of bed rest can make a back ache worse
* patients who choose chiropractors visit them twice as often as those who choose medical doctors
* more than 25 percent of people who go to orthopedic surgeons have referred themselves
* the initial treatment any doctor is likely to prescribe is aspirin.

Get Rid Of The Pain In Your Butt NOW! 7-Steps And 10-Days To A Feel Good Body And Life Are you ready to end your chronic pain, tension myositis syndrome, fibromyalgia, piriformis, sciatica & over-all body soreness and stiffness? Monte Hueftle, one of the foremost lay experts on how to heal from chronic pain caused by inner stress, tension & anxiety, has now released the 2nd edition of Get Rid Of The Pain In Your Butt NOW! You now have access to the grandest missing link on how to heal from chronic pain. This is a simple, powerful, body and life transforming book. This new edition includes the transforming 7-Step 10-Day Practice.

THE TREATMENT OF SCIATICA WITH CHINESE MEDICINE DVD Professor Zhuang Lixing, Director of Acupuncture Department at the Acupuncture and Tui Na College of Guangzhou University of TCM

This DVD integrates Chinese medical and biomedical perspectives to evaluate the physiology, etiology and pathomechanisms of sciatica. Also provides thorough diagnoses, as well as the most commonly seen clinical manifestations and breakdown by pattern identification. This is a comprehensive video that answers your questions and helps you master this commonly seen disorder.

Back Pain 911 Dr. Kemper tells a riveting and provocative story of why millions of people suffer from chronic spinal pain. His hard hitting no-holds- barred accounting of the epidemic of back pain shocks and delights the readers as he reveals miraculous recoveries witnessed in his 28-year career.His personal and professional insight and scientific approach give refreshing clarity to the often frustrating world of medical conditions for which many thought there was no relief. Dr. Kempers compassion and dedication to proper spinal care is palpable as you progress through this truly amazing story of how lives, ravaged with pain, were freed back to life.The cause of your pain will become clear as a bell as you realize the solution to your chronic pain is easier than you think. You will never again take for granted the life-saving importance of your spines alignment, flexibility and strength.

Get Rid of the Pain in Your Butt NOW! Pain Relief For Your Back, Legs, Knees, Feet & Sciatica This book explains physical pain disorders that are caused by psychological factors. One of the keys that makes this book an exceptional healing tool is that it is written by a person who suffered from chronic physical pain for more than 20 years. He is not a doctor, or a person who writes for a living. He is an expert on receiving physical pain caused by inner tension and more importantly he is an expert on how to eliminate this pain disorder from your life.

This book will explain tension/emotional induced pain disorders. How they are disguised as injuries and how you can diagnose this disorder in yourself.

You will find out why competitive, successful, conscientious and responsible people develop these disorders.

You will learn about the pain strategy that is present in these disorders and how to challenge the strategy successfully.

Through a question and answer format the author is able to address common everyday questions with simplicity and knowledge that everyone can understand and apply.

This book presents research, information and wisdom from the scientific research labs, renowned experts from the field of integrative medicine, leading energy medicine pioneers and respected psychologists. This book is successful because it is able to combine these diverse disciplines of healing with the experience of real people who has suffered from and healed themselves from these dynamic pain disorders.

In this book you will learn how to recognize in yourself the emotional awareness that is needed to begin the process of healing. You will be shown simple yet powerful everyday practices that eliminate this disorder from your life.

You will discover why the established medical community often provides the wrong diagnosis and the wrong treatments.

You will learn and understand why and how tension causes the bio-chemical processes in your body that initiate the pain symptoms.

If you suffer from sore, stiff, tight, burning, tingling and sharp chronic pain sensations this book is for you.

If your medical professional as been unable to properly diagnose and treat your pain symptoms this book is for you.

If you have been diagnosed with a poor spine, degenerative disc, pinched nerves, fibromalgia, and tendinitis and are looking for a alternative explanation to your pain, this book is for you.

If you have been diagnosed with common overuse injuries, muscle imbalances, and poor body mechanics as the explanation for your pain, this book is for you.

Whether you are new to experiencing chronic physical pain that is induced by tension or whether you yourself are becoming an expert at experiencing this disorder and are searching for the information that will completely eliminate your pain. I believe the information, research and wisdom in this book can be the solution and answer for you.

The Sciatica Relief Handbook Contains the latest information on Sciatica - what causes symtoms, how to best treat them and ways to prevent future problems. Book gives specific facts on all-natural alternative and medical treatments for fast and lasting relief without the use of drugs.

Book is written in easy to understand language and contains numerous illustrations for recommended exercises.

Sciatica Solutions: Diagnosis, Treatment, and Cure of Spinal and Piriformis Problems A world-renowned clinician's practical and complete guide to understanding and alleviating neurological pain in the lower back, buttocks, and legs.

Sciatica is the feeling of pain, numbness, "electric shocks," or strange sensations in the seat and running down the leg. It will afflict some five million Americans this year. In easy-to-understand terms, Loren Fishman demystifies the relationship between neurological injury and sciatica, explains the most common causes, leads readers to an exact diagnosis, and outlines the options available for lasting comfort and cure. 20 illustrations.

Relieving Sciatica: Everything You Need to Know about Using Complementary Medicine Identifying symptoms and offering solutions to a painful condition, this book describes how to use more than 15 effective complementary medicine approaches including acupressure, Alexander technique, Feldenkrais method, foot reflexology, hatha yoga, osteopathy, qigong, and rolfing.

© 2004-2008 Sciatica Research Today. All Rights Reserved.