| Chronic leg pain can be a challenging condition for | | | | leg with life energy. The causation blamed for |
| physicians to diagnose, since the symptoms may | | | | enacting this compression, commonly called |
| be produced in the affected area itself or in other | | | | "pinched nerves", can vary greatly. Some of the |
| regions which innervate the leg with nerve energy | | | | typical issues blamed for affecting spinal nerve |
| anywhere above the affected level. Leg | | | | roots include abnormal side to side spinal |
| symptoms usually make patients think that they | | | | curvatures, such as scoliosis, abnormal front to |
| have injured their actual limb, but in many cases, | | | | back spinal curvatures, such as hypolordosis or |
| the pain comes from some issue which is enacting | | | | hyperlordosis, advanced degenerative disc disease, |
| pain in the sciatic nerve or even in one or more | | | | herniated discs, a number of spinal osteoarthritic |
| of the nerve roots in the spine. | | | | conditions and vertebral misalignment issues like |
| Of course it is certainly possible to have leg pain | | | | spondylolisthesis, among others. In a few cases, |
| due to actual injury to the leg structure itself. | | | | the possibility of the source of pain is eliminated |
| People can damage their leg tissues in any | | | | from existing in the spinal structures and thought |
| number of ways, causing trauma to the skin, | | | | to come from another anatomical region, such as |
| bones, muscles, tendons, ligaments or nerves | | | | the sacroiliac joints or from the piriformis muscle |
| anywhere in the area. However, in these cases, | | | | impinging on the sciatica nerve itself. |
| diagnosis is usually easy, since the patients will | | | | Circulatory conditions, such as diabetes, can cause |
| likely know how and when the injury occurred. In | | | | widespread or localized leg pain. These conditions |
| these cases, there is little room or need for | | | | are usually able to be diagnosed using standardized |
| speculation... | | | | tests and the neuropathy condition is typically |
| In most patients with idiopathic leg pain, there is | | | | treatable using specialized medications. In many |
| no history or indication of injury or obvious | | | | cases, the pain is not correctly attributed to its |
| trauma. The leg appears fine, and may even | | | | actual source, which is purposefully enacted |
| function perfectly, although the patient will be | | | | regional ischemia. This chronic condition is linked to |
| complaining of agonizing symptoms including pain, | | | | the mindbody process, which is a sector of health |
| and possible neurological issues like numbness, | | | | almost completely neglected by today's Cartesian |
| tingling, weakness or the perception of burning. If | | | | obsessed medical sector. However, some |
| x-rays return normal and there is no other | | | | pioneers in the field, like the renowned Dr. John E. |
| indication of a fracture or possible injury to the leg | | | | Sarno at NYU Medical Center/Rusk Institute of |
| itself, the diagnostician must go deeper into the | | | | Rehabilitation Medicine, have shown just how |
| anatomy to find the possible source of pain. | | | | effective alternative treatments can be for many |
| As long as the localized structures are sound, then | | | | type of leg pain. In my own experience in dealing |
| the condition is almost always sourced in either | | | | with tens of thousands of chronic pain sufferers |
| nerve dysfunction or circulatory dysfunction. | | | | each year, I find this oxygen deprivation |
| Nerve concerns are far more commonly | | | | syndrome to be both epidemic and incredibly |
| diagnosed and often relate to spinal sources in the | | | | successful at avoiding detection, since it flies in the |
| lumbar or lumbosacral spine. In these cases, the | | | | face of the antiquated structurally-fixated |
| working diagnostic theory states that some | | | | philosophy embraced by virtually all traditional |
| structure is likely impinging upon one or more of | | | | physicians. |
| the spinal nerve roots which eventually supply the | | | | |