Charles Greer

The amount of time to 100% realign your neck depends upon the severity of the problem. In the absence of injury or severe abnormality, relief can be ascertained after the first visit.

There should be increased freedom of motion, increased blood flow, relaxed skeletal muscularity, decreased pain from bursitis, and nerve irritation. To obtain this type of relief, the correct treatment must be ascertained and ALL parameters must be met.

It depends upon which muscles are contracted, forcing the bone to invade the neural pathway. The stretch must address the origin and insertion of the offending muscularity and correspond accordingly.

Naprapathy (Naprapaths) are licensed Doctors who scientifically evaluate, and treat contractile muscles, nerve impingements, ligamentous buckling, bony malalignments and evaluate nutritional needs since 1907.

Thru bony analysis and soft tissue assessment. A diagnostic pressure placed upon the piriformis muscle where the sciatic nerve exits will give you the simplest method to evaluate true sciatica. Radicular pain pattern for a sciatic nerve problem will send pain down the back of the leg towards the knee or down to the ankle-foot. There is no replacement for physical examination, palpation of the bone and its surrounding soft tissue structures. Radiographic examination and specific history are also required to develop a specific individualized treatment plan, which may differ from individual to individual.

You have a pinched nerve in your lower back, due to muscular contractions, causing pulling off the bone into the nerve root. This usually occurs at the L-5 neurological level. You have developed sciatica because of the L-5 neural impingement, which manifests itself where the nerve exits in the middle of the butt muscle with pain radiating to the back of the knee. This situation can be helped with connective tissue manipulation, bony analysis to determine the spacial relationship between the bone and nerve root, and direction of impingement, which will determine the direction of specific treatment. Naprapathic Medicine has been highly successful with this type of analysis and treatment.

I am a NAP-PRUH-Path and can only speak of evaluation of muscles, ligaments, and other connective tissue structures that may cause irritation to the bursa or interfere with nerve pathways causing pain or disability. Naprapths are connective tissue specialists. Any discipline that uses specific palpation evaluation, orthopedic testing, neurological assessment, and radiographic testing can better treat shoulder pain and disability. Although, it depends on the magnitude of ther problem.