People who suffer from sciatica will often feel pain in their leg which can travel from the back of their thigh up to the thigh and in some cases up to the hip or down towards the foot. For some people not only will they feel pain but they may find that their leg become numb and they will have problems in trying to either move or control their leg. However there are ways in which...

Sciatica is a condition in which one tends to experience pain in their lower back region and the surrounding areas such as buttocks, legs, feet etc. This condition is mainly caused due to compression and irritation caused in the sciatic nerve, or the nerve roots that combine together to generate the sciatic nerve. In addition to the severe pain, one also experiences weakness in the muscles, sense...

A lot of people don't understand what sciatica means. You can't really call it an ailment or disease, not even a diagnosis could tell you the cause of the pain. It's more like a set of symptoms. In most cases, the name sciatica is used when you have nuisances in the nerves area of the lower spinal chord or in cases of irregular compression. There are a number of conditions that can cause...

Do you suffer from Sciatica? Are you one of the many right now who are reading this while pain travels from your back and down your leg? Would you like to get up now and move to just ease your sciatica? Well join the club... Sciatica is increasing in the population. Back pain affects over 80% of adults. More than 50% of you reading this have back pain right now. So why are...

Physiotherapy Treatment of Sciatica by Jonathan Blood Smyth Sciatica results from a structure impinging on a lumbar nerve root, causing compression and/or inflammation enough to cause neurological changes in the skin, reflexes and muscles served by the affected nerve. Not a common syndrome, it is estimated that 3-5% of the population suffer this kind of problem at some time. It affects men...