The most important thing when dealing with numbness in the legs is that a correct examination and diagnosis be done. There's a variety of different reasons why you can have leg numbness. There can be muscles that are too tight, pinching on a nerve. There are muscles that are too loose that can be laying on nerves. There can be joints out of place that compress nerves. There could also be inflammation in the area that presses on the nerves. There can be space occupying lesions that compress on nerves. There can be some serious reasons for leg numbness, and the most important criteria is that we understand what the reasons are. Conservative chiropractic management of normal, uncomplicated leg numbness requires adjusting segments to make sure that the tension dynamics in the area are no longer playing a role in the pinching of the nerve, and Making sure that muscles are stretched out that may be pressing on the nerve. Those muscles that aren't working quite the way they should, that are a little bit loose and laying on the nerves, need to have increased tone by doing home exercises. Generally, once the adjusting, the stretching, the relaxation and the strengthening take place, then the leg pain and numbness begins to go away.