The thirtysomething woman who hobbled into my clinic last week was wretched with pain. It had started a month or so ago with a bit of irritation and numbness in her lower back at the end of the day.

The vast majority of patients with sciatica notice a significant improvement in the severity of their symptoms within 6-8 weeks. For this reason, initial treatment should be conservative to avoid ...

Sciatica is one of the more common ailments affecting human beings. Present in up to 40% of individuals at some point in their lifetime and in as many as 5% at any given time, the societal ...

Should we be using the term sciatica anymore? What is the actual pathological process in this kind of presentation? Although still commonly used in clinical parlance, the term ‘sciatica’ is somewhat ...