Reaction Paper About Sciatica

It impacts the piriformis muscle. This muscle is located in the buttock area. Tightness and pain in the buttocks is common with this condition. Spasms of this muscle can cause pain in the sciatic nerve. The sciatic nerve can cause pain from the lower back down to the leg area. It can also cause the leg to feel numb. It can be quite painful. It can also be debilitating. It's difficult to get even simple things done when

Robert Trinh is a 34 year-old senior truck driver referred to your outpatient physical therapy office for “chronic low back pain” which started 7 months ago. He was lifting a particularly heavy load that day and felt something “tweaked” in his low back as he was bent over and moving the load from the truck into the sidewalk. He remembered being in a bent over posture and cannot straighten up for about 2 weeks and the posture gradually resolved. Current pain level is 8/10 with sharp burning sensation in the low back (P1= symptom location #1) that radiates down to the posterolateral right lower leg (P2= symptom location #2). The entire right lower leg also feels tingling often. Robert reports that the right lower leg can feel very sensitive at

Sciatic nerve pain is frequently seen as a a tingling sensation, sharp pain or numbness down the lower limb or even in one region on the leg, often only on the one hand. It is additionally ordinarily a pain that is certainly quite hard to eliminate as it's a result of sciatica, which can be attributable to a variety of things. However sciatica pain is usually crippling.

You usually feel back pain after lifting a heavy object, move suddenly, sit in one position for too long or suffer an injury or

sciatica (a stabbing or sharp pain that originates in the low back, wraps around the hip and moves down the buttock into the upper leg);

Sciatica is a problem that originates in the lower back and travels through the large sciatic nerves located in each leg. The pain caused by sciatica can include weakness, tingling, and numbness, and travels throughout the lower back, through the buttocks, and into the legs. Pain caused by sciatica can be consistent and even debilitating, and the pain can become greater when seated. If symptoms continue that can deteriorate further, even to the point of it becoming hard to stand and walk. Any leg pain that can be described as tingling, searing, or burning, can be attributed to sciatica. Pain may also be consistent throughout only one of the legs.

Sciatica is continual pain along the sciatic nerve (American Chiropractic Association, 2015). Sciatica has been discovered in 1 to 10 percent of the United States of America’s population. Mostly in people around the ages of 25 to 45 years (Atkins et al. 2015). The sciatic nerve is the thickest and longest nerve in the human body, running from the fourth lumbar vertebrae to the second sacral vertebrae. As the sciatic nerve makes its way toward the popliteal fossa, it divides into the tibial and fibular nerves, this explains why patients suffering from sciatica have reported that the pain is prominent in their lower back, through the buttock, and into the lower leg. The semimembranosus, semitendinosus

Sciatica is the compression of sciatic nerve described as persistent pain which keeps running from the lower back, down through the buttocks, and into the lower leg. The sciatic nerve is the longest and widest nerve in the body, running from the lower back through the posterior end and down the back of every leg. It controls the muscles of the lower leg and gives sensation to the thighs, legs, and the soles of the feet.

Sciatica (cystic) and back pain disrupts day activities. What is sciatica? (Sciatica?) To know the details of the pain of the patient, you will know the effects and problems. The backs of the lower back, hips, and nerves of the back increases from the sole.

Low back pain is one of the most common complaints with which patients go to a physician. Low back ache is so common that at least 80% of the population will get it at some point of their lives.(1) Sciatica (Radiating leg pain with or without low back pain) is a common symptom and occurs in approximately 40% of adult population at some point of time but clinically significant sciatica is only 4%-6%.(2) Intervertebral disc prolapse(IVDP) seems to be the most common cause of Sciatica but some patients with features suggesting sciatica won’t show any disc prolapse in MRI or CT scan while some people with no symptoms show disc prolapse making it a paradox.(3) This paradox led to thinking of alternate explanations that prolapsed intervertebral

The term sciatica describes the symptoms intense leg pain that usually runs from the hip region to the end of the leg. Because of the pinching of the sciatica nerve, the pain is accompanies by

In addition to the complaint of low back, this patient may be exhibited signs and symptoms associated with L4-L5 disk herniation and to a lesser extent L5-S1 disk herniation. This area is the most common place for a disc to herniate, on the account of the amount of weight these vertebral segments carry and due to their range of motion. A disk herniation at the L4-L5 can cause nerve root impingent resulting in a L5 radiculopathy. The symptoms that arise from a radiculopathy can cause an array of symptoms. In addition to the low back pain, pain may radiate into the buttock and down the leg and into the foot. Neurological symptoms can include muscle weakness, parasthesia, and sensory loss in dermatomal distribution. For the L5 nerve root this

The complaint of low back pain is the most common musculoskeletal problem in society today and

Positive findings of sciatica include a shock–like pain radiating along the posterior aspect of the affected side. Pain traveling down the opposite leg upon straight leg testing indicates a large disk herniation (Papadakis, 2015). The last position, prone, is necessary to properly evaluate the spine and sacroiliac joints for points of localized tenderness. Careful palpation of important anatomical landmarks would assist the examiner in identifying problems of the sacrum, sacroiliac joints, facet joints, paravertebral muscles and spinous process. A rectal examination is necessary if cauda equina syndrome is

These nerves travel to the lower extremities cause a dull ache and sometimes numbness or loss of strength. The nerve most commonly affected by a disc herniation is the sciatic nerve. The sciatic nerve originates between the third sacral(S-3), and fourth lumbar(L-5) vertebrae, is formed in the pelvis and exits through the greater sciatic foramen towards the gluteal region. It then travels laterally underneath the piriformis muscle towards the pudendal nerve, then divides travels anteriorly down the leg until it divides near the knee into the politeal and tibial nerves(Shanahan, 1997).