“Sciatica” is the symptoms that described the pain that starting from the lower back and radiates down to the leg, usually one side, below the knee. This pain sometimes described as jolting, electric shock-like and worsening with coughing, sneezing, or sometimes straining yourself while having a bowel movement as these activities increasing the pressure in your disc causing the “herniated” disc or the “herniation” part pushing more onto the spinal nerve. The most Read more…

Back pain is one of the most common symptoms we are all experienced at some point in our life time. Mine is usually a “nagging”, “aching” rather than a “pain” and it usually takes 2-3 days before it faded and went away on its own. However, if you experience frequent symptoms and it is worsening over time, there might be underlying problems that you might not know about it. Here are structures in Read more…

Back pain is a common problem and so common that we at least had one episode in our lifetime. The majority of the back pain symptoms, 80%-90% will resolve by itself or just need simple remedies such as rest, ice, anti-inflammatory medications, some stretching exercises. Most of the time it is just a pulled muscle or flaring up of inflammation from baseline wear and tear, i.e arthritis, a degenerative disc which most of Read more…