Introduction: Low back pain (LBP) is the most common health problem between men and women 20 50. Although LBP's exact origin remains unknown, it understood that degenerative damage to intervertebral disk (IVD) plays a central role in pathogenic mechanism leading pain. The study aims incidence, clinical features, presentations of lumbar disc prolapse outcome microdiscectomy for period 1 year pos...

Four cases of sciatica due to osteophytes impinging on the sciatic nerve at the sacroiliac joint are reported. Of these 4 cases, 2 were treated conservatively and the other 2 required surgical excision of the osteophyte. The report highlights the importance of keeping this uncommon etiology in the differential diagnosis of sciatica.

BACKGROUND Around 90% of sciatica cases are due to a herniated intervertebral disc in the lumbar region. Ankle acupuncture (AA) has been reported to be effective in the treatment of acute nonspecific low back pain. This study aims to evaluate the efficacy of a single session of ankle acupuncture for disc-related sciatica. METHOD This will be a double-blinded, randomized controlled clinical tr...

OBJECTIVE To determine the effectiveness and predictors of response to lumbar epidural corticosteroid injections (ESI) in patients with sciatica. We performed a 12-month, multicentre, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, parallel-group trial in four secondary pain-care clinics in the Wessex Region. METHODS Two hundred and twenty-eight patients with a clinical diagnosis of unilateral ...

Background. Sciatica is one of the most frequently reported complaints; it affects quality of life and reduces social and economic efficacy. Clinical studies on the efficacy of acupuncture therapy in sciatica are increasing, while systematic reviews assessing the efficacy of acupuncture therapy are still lacking. Objective. This study aims to assess the effectiveness of acupuncture therapy for ...

herpes zoster is a rare cause of non-discogenic sciatica. a combination of case rarity and name similarity was nearly leading to an inopportune surgery in a 21 years old woman. the clinical presentation was completely similar to a cauda equina syndrome associated with urinary incontinence and bilateral leg involvement. concurrently, lumbosacral imaging of another patient with exactly similar na...

This report aimed to present successfully treated cases of lumbar spinal stenosis coexisting with mild segmental instability and vertebral body fracture. Two patients presented chief complaints sciatica back pain that had lasted for 2 months. Preoperative images revealed compression Interspinous ligamentoplasty was done under general anesthesia. Treatment outcomes were assessed by numeric ratin...

We describe a case report of a man aged 56 years with a 4-month history of right-sided sciatica-type pain with subclinical disc prolapse evident on MRI. Worsening pain together with the appearance of a tender mass in his right buttock prompted further imaging, which demonstrated an infiltrative mass engulfing the lumbosacral plexus. This was later shown to be a granulocytic sarcoma on biopsy. I...