Back Care for Lower Back Pain

Learn about how your sciatica symptoms can become chronic, and common treatments and tips to help prevent your sciatica from recurring or flaring.

Learn about how the narrowing of the bony openings in your spine due to stenosis can cause symptoms and signs in your arms and legs, and when these symptoms may indicate a medical emergency.

Relieve sciatica pain and prevent future flare-ups by stretching and strengthening your lower back, abdominal, and thigh muscles with these 3 simple exercises.

Pain arising from spinal abnormalities are typically caused by a pinched nerve or a degenerating disc. Getting the correct diagnosis is key to finding a solution.

Learn about the common causes of foot pain, including when it's caused by a problem in your lumbar spine, and pointers to help you understand the origin of your foot pain.

Surgery may be advocated to treat sciatica when nonsurgical treatments have failed to provide relief or the neurological symptoms continue to progress.