Piriformis Injury

It happened about three days in a week-long kayak in the middle of nowhere. I woke up one morning and tried to walk on the beach to wash my face, but my leg, or more exactly, my butt would not cooperate. I could walk, but just because a shooting pain on the right side of my lower back and buttocks was causing my legs to give out.

It took a week or two later I learned that I had something called piriformis syndrome that paralyzes me. I managed to get through the kayak surprise, I was able to paddle without much pain. However, once I got my kayak, I was fairly well constrained.

Piriformis syndrome is literally a pain in the thigh. Your piriformis is a muscle deep in your spine is the sacrum (base of your spine) to the hip (the bone on the top outside of your thigh). Your sciatic nerve is less, and for some people, through the piriformis. When your piriformis is injured, it can compress the sciatic nerve where it crosses the pond. Beyond the pain deep in your butt, piriformis syndrome usually causes pain that radiates to the back or side of your leg and can travel around the knee and foot. The pain may be aching, sad, strong, tough, and even cause numbness and tingling.

Symptoms of piriformis syndrome tend to imitate those of sciatica, but for a different reason. Sciatica, which also causes pain that radiates down your leg, occurs after a lumbar disc pressing on your sciatic nerve.

Overuse is a common cause of piriformis syndrome, and may be a common injury that athletes on the sidelines. Prolonged sitting and trauma can also aggravate the piriformis muscle, causing swelling or shrinking, which causes the sciatic nerve pinch. People a type A personality may be more inclined to pyramidal syndrome, tension and stress can restrict blood flow to muscle and nerve, triggering this painful condition.

There are a number of ways to relieve pain, but the first thing to do is to calm the muscles if it is in spasm and reduce swelling. Stretch, massage, ice and heat are all to strive to injured muscle.

Typical Western medical treatments for piriformis syndrome include rest, physical therapy, local anesthetics injected into the muscle, and prescription painkillers or muscle relaxants. In difficult cases or chronic, your doctor may recommend an injection of cortisone into the muscle, and even surgery to relieve arrivals.

Acupuncture can be a very effective treatment for piriformis syndrome. This ancient healing medicine of China is based on the idea that your energy, which is produced in each cell, the flow in the channels of your entire body. Any kind of congestion or blockage of a channel can create a variety of symptoms, but more particularly, pain. In most cases of piriformis syndrome is usually blocking the path of the gallbladder. This does not mean that your gallbladder is sick. The Way of the gallbladder along side of your body through the buttocks and side of right leg pain when your travels piriformis.

The acupuncturist uses extremely fine needles inserted into various points on your body, which may contribute to a number of ways.

-We can calm the spasms in the muscle.

A-acupuncture improves circulation of the area of the wound, which accelerates the healing process.

-Research has shown that acupuncture to relieve pain increases chemicals in the brain.

-Acupuncture is very relaxing. Anyone who has experienced a muscle spasm in the know that stress and tension only aggravate the problem.

Your acupuncturist may use a number of recovery tools to obtain the best results. Acupun elsewhere.