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Will having my sciatica nerve deaden stop the pain where I can have a pain free moment or a cure?
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Sam Visnic
replied on January 20th, 2009
Back Pain Answer A5435
Your question involves "deadening" the sciatic nerves to control pain in the hip and lower back.
It may control your pain in the case that the diagnosis you have received is the exact reason why you have pain. It is generally accepted amongst most back pain experts that visual diagnostic tools such as an MRI and X ray can over estimate the problem, or may show abnormalities that may or may not be causing your particular pain.
The best suggestion seems to involve focusing on exhausting all means of therapeutic applications prior to engaging in surgical procedures that cannot provide a high probability of relief.
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