It causes nerve pain that starts in the spine at the lower back and goes into the buttocks, hips, and backs of the legs.

It's caused by pressure on the sciatic nerve - either from a slipped disc (the pad of cartilage that acts as a cushion between the individual vertebrae), or alternatively, directly from bone ...

Review of the literature on relevant injection procedure found that injury to the sciatic nerve is associated with use of the dorsogluteal site for injection, because the sciatic nerve commonly ...