Sciatica is crippling

 Twenty year old and slipped disc; she could not believe it! She had suffered severe back pain since her teens. She had continuous back and leg pain along with burning sensatiovn in leg. The sciatica pain was ruining her everyday life. She was in so much pain that it was ruining her mental health as well. Her family was depressed and she used to wake up every morning in tears . Even her innocent activities like patting the dog, picking up the pen from the floor, eating food on dinning table with the loved ones had become impossible. The feeling was incredibely miserable and her loneliness looking for help was like as if it was the first day at school. She described her leg pain as if she is standing in freezing water, calf pain like a throbbing toothache, discomfort in her buttocks like pins and needles, weakness in her leg was like as if she was in a ship for several hours and just stepped on dry land. She used to stand through out her college lectures and had a tough time preparing for her exam. She could hardly sit for 5 minutes without a tingling pain radiating through her left foot. She just used to stand throughout her classes. During the course of treatment she had been to many renowned doctors of govt. as well as private hospitals without any significant results. In fact a very renowned doctor from a very prestigious private hospital advised her learn to live with pain. From a stage where the thought of sitting for 10 minutes was unbearable and she was thinking of quitting her studies to today when she can move with ease, active rehab has been like a life saver. Within two weeks she could feel the improvement and could sit fearlessly upto 30 minutes. Life and work related stressors had led to weak muscle and high pressure on the disc resulting into compression of nerve roots and things did not look very promising. There was a doubt in her mind about recovery from treatment as she has been advised surgery as the only cure for her crippling .Two months later, she is no longer house bound or thinking of quitting studies. Two hours of exercise everyday was agony, but gradually things changed. Today she can sit, walk and drive with ease. The biggest gift she has got is Painfree life. Now she feel optimistic about travelling alone. During this phase she came across the complete failure of various treatment options to the the succesful treatment tools. Most of the treatment options failed as they work upon the symptoms instead of cause of pain. She says, do not be one of those people who learn to live with pain and says they have tried every treatment. Hence, She describes directional preference rehab as the knowledge therapy which helped her to understand the cause of her sciatica pain and how to overcome it with the help of medical movements and following good ergonomics. She now appreciates the joy of sitting, and helping the people suffering from the sciatica pain has become her misson in life .