Spinal Surgery and Disorders

Sciatica

Sciatica is a disease of peripheral nervous system. It is a shooting pain down the back of one or both of legs of the sciatica nerve. sciatica     patients with common symptoms like radicular pain in leg, tingling sensation and numbness. It was caused by lumbar herniated disc, degenerative disc disease, isthmic spondylolisthesis, lumbar spinal stenosis, piriformis syndrome, sacroiliac joint dysfunction and there are some other causes like pregnancy, scar tissue, musclestrain, spinal tumor, infection, fracture, ankylosing spondylitis and it was diagnosed by the following indicators like unilateral leg pain greater than low back pain. It radiating to foot and toes, numbness and paraesthesia, straight leg raising test induces more leg pain.