“Can a chiropractor treat leg pain?”

Good morning. Thanks for sharing your question with the FATD community. Please allow me to give you my thoughts, tips and suggestions pertaining to your question. Ultimately, it depends on the root cause of your leg pain. If the pain comes from the tissues within the leg, then I would opine that a chiropractor is not the best provider to help you. However, if the pain is of neurologic origin (from the nerves being stimulated due to a back issue), then a caring and informed chiropractor can help a lot. Ultimately, a chiropractor plus the right exercises done repetitively, and in the right order, can help with reducing pain and even prevent it from returning (in the same severity). I hope this helps. David T. Neuman, MD FAAOS Sports Medicine and Orthopedics 131 West 33rd St. Suite 12-E New York, NY 10001 P: 212-813-3634 F: 212-857-9411 www.nysportscare.com<http://www.nysportscare.com/> Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail communication and any attachments may contain confidential and privileged information for the use of the designated recipients named above. It may contain confidential and protected health information subject to privacy regulations such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this communication in error and that any review, disclosure, dissemination, distribution or copying of it or its contents is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify me immediately by replying to this message and deleting it from your computer.

Depends upon the cause. If it's sciatica related, then manipulation of the lower back may help. So getting the diagnosis correct is key, and chiropractors aren't really qualified to go through all the possibilities and reach the most likely cause.

Sometimes but not probably the best choice.