A Case of Lumbo-Sacral Intervertebral Disc Herniation Causing 'Sciatica'
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some eight months previously. It was of a fairly severe nature making it impossible to carry on his duties as a policeman or even to walk about without pain. There was a history of an injury two years previously when he fell from a bicycle and injured his ankle. He did not remember any injury to his spine at the same time. Various types of treatment had been given to the patient for sciatica, such as massage, diathermy, manipulation of the sacro-iliac joint, injections of saline or novocaine into the nerve or its surroundings, etc. None was successful.
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