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What does it mean to "centralize" leg pain? My physical therapist kept using that word when talking about my sciatica.
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Answer:
Centralization is an important treatment principle for sciatica. Sciatica is the "general public" term for radiculopathy, pain that travels away from the pain source along nerves.
Centralization is getting leg pain to move to a more central position in the spine. You can think of it as...
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