Everything You Need to Know About Sciatica – Symptoms,Signs,Causes, Risk factors and Treatments

Avoid smoking

Studies link smoking to increased risk, period and pain severity in sciatica, especially in heavy users who smoke 20 cigarettes or more a day for over 20 years. It stimulates the inflammatory cells, which irritates the sciatic nerve leading to sciatica. Smoking substances are free radicals which cause extra harm to the sciatic nerve.