🔥 What's the best medication for sciatica? The answer you weren't expecting
It's the question I hear most often in my practice:
"Doctor, what's the best medication for sciatica?"
Sciatica isn't a disease, it's a symptom. It's the manifestation of inflammation or compression of the sciatic nerve, often due to a herniated disc, stenosis, or mechanical overload.
The best "medicine" isn't always a pill. The real approach includes reducing inflammation in the surrounding environment, optimizing weight, getting adequate rest, following a truly anti-inflammatory diet, improving mobility, strengthening deep muscles, and, in selected cases, orthobiologic therapies that modulate local inflammation.
If we only alleviate the pain and don't treat the cause, the problem returns.