TINGLING IN FEET AND LEGSTingling LegsTingling in feet and legs is a sign that tissue is starved of either blood or nervous input. Sitting with your legs crossed, places pressure on the Femoral artery, starving the tissues in the lower legs of oxygen. The result? Tingling legs. The cure? Uncross your legs! This website is not about vascular causes of tingling legs, but you might enjoy this short story by chiropractor Bernard Preston. Click on the picture.
More commonly, the source of the tingling is an irritated or frankly pinched nerve. It could be in the Brain or Spinal Cord, but more usually the site of injury is where the nerve emerges from the spine, in the buttock or the groin. S1 nerve rootIt helps your chiropractor if you can tell him/her precisely where your tingling in feet and legs is. For example, does the tingling go to the side of your foot? However, whilst for 75% of people a sciatica from the L5-S1 joint will go down the back of the thigh and leg, and to the side of the foot, less commonly (see the yellow and green patterns) it may mimic a sciatica from the L4-L5 joint, and go down the side of the leg.
Irritated nerves in the lumbar spine by a may causeThe most common sciatica refers to the outside of the foot and the small toe. If there is weakness you will have difficulty standing on one foot and raising your heel from the ground. Try it! Hold onto a chair, stand on one leg and raise your heel repeatedly. You should be able to do it without any sign of fatigue or shaking of the lower leg. An S1 sciatica may make this difficult. In my opinion, everyone should be doing some gentle lumbar exercises, because we all sit too much, and almost the whole population will experience acute low back pain at some stage of their lives. But this is vitally important if you have tingling in the feet and legs. At CHIROPRACTIC TIPS you will find some suggestions on a few conservative exercises for your back. They only take 60 seconds, literally, in bed in the morning. For more information,
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L5 nerve rootThe L5 nerve root is most commonly affected by the L4-L5 disc joint, though the nerve emerges at one level lower. The tingling in feet and legs (and/or pain) is more commonly on the side of the lower leg, and the great toe, though it can affect the side of the thigh too.If there is weakness, you will be unable to lift your great toe off the ground. This means that you may trip as you walk, as you foot isn't lifted properly in the swing phase. Is your leg tingling, and do you also have weakness?
L4 nerve rootThe L4 nerve root is less commonly the cause of tingling in feet and legs and, when it does, it's a real bugger. In my experience it responds less well to manipulation, and better to flexion-disctraction.The knee jerk reflex may be reduced, and weakness can affect the major flexor of the knee, the Quadriceps muscle. The result is a profound limp, and weakness on stair-climbing, as well as a leg tingling. 
Meralgia ParestheticaA pinched nerve in the groin can cause pain and tingling in the upper thigh. Whilst its generally considered a "medical" condition, I have had great success in treating it. Occasionally it can be caused by a infection or mass in the abdoman. Fortunately rarely, the usual site is in the groin. Read more … UPPER LEG PAINPiriformis Syndrome
Read more … PIRIFORMIS SYNDROME ... DIABETESExperts say that WALKING HELPS HEAL DAMAGED NERVESThe pain and tingling in feet and legs experienced by up to half of diabetic patients is caused by high blood sugar which damages the nerve. Since walking, cycling, swimming etc improve the blood circulation in the lower limbs it helps the oxygenation of the nerves.One profound study proved that diabetics who walk regularly don't get diabetic neuropathy. As long as they keep walking. That's big! The research alos found that it slowed the progression of any existing neuropathy. Walking also is one of the simplest ways of reducing blood sugar, that's key because it's the increased blood sugar that is the problem in the first place. Walking benefits in the outdoors releases the feel-good endorphins from the pineal gland in the brain, increasing our tolerance of pain. B vitamins, particularly B12, are also known to help nerve pain. WALKING BENEFITS ... Tingling in the hands and armsLikewise, tingling in the upper limbs is caused by an irritation of the nerve somewhere along its course from the neck to the hand. The so-called DOUBLE CRUSH syndrome is now well recognised - in conditions such as Carpal Tunnel Syndrome in which the nerve is trapped in the wrist, there is also an underlying impingement in the neck. How otherwise could chiropractic possibly help such conditions as CTS, tennis elbow, frozen shoulder ...INTERESTING LINKSGo from TINGLING IN FEET AND LEGS to TINGLING IN ARMS AND HANDSDIABETES OSTEOPOROSIS ... COMMON MEDICAL CONDITIONS that may respond to Chiropractic. DRINKING WATER ... Monthly Newsletter
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