What IS a 'pinched nerve'?
Have you ever experienced pain in your arms or legs that can’t be explained by a direct injury? You may have been told you’ve ‘pinched a nerve’ which has resulted in those sharp, shooting pains you now associate with the term. In chiropractic, we refer to this moving, sharp pain as ‘radicular’ pain. As a definition, radicular pain refers to pain travelling along the affected spinal nerve root, away from the actual source of pain, resulting in symptoms that are inconsistent wi