My initial impression was acute sciatica , but the abdominal pain and high normal temperature made my diagnosis uncertain.
I had admitted an elderly woman with severe sciatica to the community hospital.
His sciatica gradually improved and has not recurred, although his back pain still gives him trouble occasionally, as you would expect.
Chronic back pain and sciatica became daily problems.
Most sciatica is due to prolapse of a lumbar intervertebral disc.
This structural malfunction may cause an irritation of the nerve root/s emerging in between the vertebral bodies; this would in turn lead to a radiating type of pain like sciatica .
Prolotherapy is applicable to arthritis, neck pain, back pain, sciatica , herniated discs, degenerative discs, torn rotator cuffs, knee and ankle instability and wrist injuries.
Two years after the injury, he was referred to a rheumatologist in case the pain was caused by sciatica .
These populations are clinically and pathologically distinct from patients with back pain or sciatica who are treated by most clinicians and included in all the other trials.
A careful history can usually distinguish nerve root compression, especially sciatica due to compression of the lumbosacral root.
