When the Cause of Your Foot Pain is a Spine Problem
It's quite an interesting topic, most people wouldn’t even think that there’s any relation between foot and spinal health. The truth is that certain physical conditions affecting your feet can have severe consequences in your spine, and vice versa. You can understand more clearly this complicated relationship if you know the trajectory of the sciatic nerve, and understand a little bit about how weight loads are distributed between your feet and spine, causing foot pain. The sciatic nerve is very long. It travels from your spine down to your feet and may be the reason why you are experiencing foot pain. Between one vertebral disc and the other, there is a space through which nerves leave and enter the spinal cord. These nerve roots are made of soft tissue that can be compressed by the vertebrae when there is a problem such as disc degeneration or herniated discs . Since these nerves are in charge of gathering the sensations from your limbs, and a nerve compression disrupts their
