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 Pinched Nerve, Strained Muscle or Osteoarthritis and Spinal Decompression Surrey   Health Historically, chiropractors primarily treated conditions that originated from a pinched nerve. Of course, chiropractors still take care of symptoms from pinched nerves, but also treat many other types of neuro-musculo-skeletal conditions. We use spinal decompression as one of our treatment approaches in our Surrey office. Sometimes it can be difficult to determine whether the pain is coming from a muscle, joint or nerve. Nerve pain can mimic lots of different problems. A muscle pain that does not resolve with time or conservative treatment could possibly be an entrapped nerve. A joint that has pain where the pain can’t be reproduced by local testing may also be a pinched nerve. A nerve that is irritated in the spine doesn’t always produce pain at the site of irritation. It can produce pain along the travelled course of the nerve. Injury to only the sciatic nerve that originates in the lo...