SCIATICA - INDRAPRASTH PHYSIOTHERAPY CENTRE

SCIATICA - Sciatica refers to pain that radiates along the path of the sciatic nerve, which branches from your lower back through your hips and buttocks and down each leg. Sciatica affects only one side of your body. Sciatica most commonly occurs when a herniated disk, bone spur on the spine or narrowing of the spine compresses part of the nerve. This causes inflammation, pain and often some numbness in the affected leg. Although the pain associated with sciatica can be severe, most cases resolve with non-operative treatments in a few weeks. 

• Sciatica is nerve pain from irritation of the sciatica nerve.
  
• The sciatic nerve is the largest nerve in the body.
• Sciatica pain is typically felt from the low back to behind the thigh and radiating down below the knee.
• Treatments for sciatica depend on the underlying cause and the severity of the pain.

Sciatica is a symptom of a problem with the sciatic nerve, the largest nerve in the body. It controls muscles in the back of your knee and lower leg and provides feeling to the back of your thigh and the sole of your foot. When you have sciatica, you have pain, weakness, numbness, or tingling. It can start in the lower back and extend down your leg to your calf, foot, or even your toes. It's usually on only one side of your body.Sciatic nerve pain can be so excruciating and debilitating. Common causes of sciatica can include a ruptured disk, a narrowing of the spine canal called spinal stenosis, and injury.

Spinal stenosis a condition in which the spinal canal narrows and compresses the spinal cord, sciatic nerve roots. This narrowing can be caused by bone spurs, inflammation, or a slip disc, which decreases available space for the spinal cord, thus pinching and irritating nerves from the spinal cord that travel to the sciatic nerves.