09/03/2024
Sciatica happens when irritation, inflammation, pinching or compression affect one or more nerves that run down your lower back and into your legs
Sign and symptoms
• Severe low back pain,
• radiating pain
• Walking can be painful and difficult.
• Muscle spasm, tingling sensation
• weakness or atrophy.
• loss of bladder or bowel control.
• Some people may be asymptomatic
• Slow and deliberate, tip-toe walking Spine, trunk deviation
• Paraspinal muscle spasm
➡️ COMPLICATIONS
Cauda Equina Syndrome
Chronic pain
Permanent nerve injury
Paralysis
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➡️ Treatment
Physiotherapy is a Gold standard treatment for sciatica and disc bulge
