How to Deal With Radicular Pain

A lot of women that I spoke to say it's worse than childbirth, and some of the qualitative literature says that people even have suicidal thoughts because of their ridiculous pain. A lot of patients kind of have picked this up from somewhere to kind of steal a quote from another bit of qualitative research. So trying to pick up on your patient's expectations is a funny one. There seems to be two kind of camps out there with regards to radicular pain. Some think they've got ridiculous pains so their life's over and they're never going to be able to lift anything again. And then others are like 'I just have to wait it out' which can actually make things better for them.