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Sciatica

About Sciatica

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Sciatica affects 10-40% of adults lifetime, with annual incidence around 1-5%; risk rises with age (peak 40-50s), obesity, sedentary jobs, pregnancy, and manual labor, impacting millions yearly. Sciatica is pain radiating along the sciatic nerve path, the body’s largest nerve, from the lower back through the hips, buttocks, and down one leg, often to the foot. It stems from irritation or compression of nerve roots (typically L4-S3) rather than the nerve itself.

Symptoms

Unilateral sharp, burning, shooting, or electric-shock pain from low back/buttock down posterior thigh/calf/foot; worsens with coughing, sneezing, sitting, or lumbar flexion. Includes tingling, numbness, pins-and-needles, or leg weakness; rarely bilateral or with bowel/bladder loss (cauda equina emergency).

Known Causes

  • Primary: Spinal instability, lumbar disc herniation (most common, 90% cases) pressing nerve roots; bone spurs (osteophytes) from degenerative disc disease; spinal stenosis narrowing foramina, along with along with nutrient deficiencies, systemic toxicities or infections
  • Secondary: Spondylolisthesis (vertebral slippage), piriformis syndrome (piriformis muscle spasm entraps nerve), pregnancy (uterine pressure), trauma/injury, tumors, diabetes-related neuropathy or other neuropathies, nerve injury from surgery, or post-surgical scarring.

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