About 40% of Americans have experienced sciatica – pain that radiates from the sciatic nerve, which starts in the lower back and extends through the hips, buttocks and legs. Though the pain can be ...

If you've experienced sciatica before, you know the stubborn pain can ruin your whole week. Sciatica is a type of back pain ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: My husband has been totally disabled by sciatic pain for three months. His doctor prescribed 4 mg of methylprednisolone, but it hasn’t done anything to eliminate the pain. He uses a ...

Sciatica is a general term for pain related to the legs and issues with spinal nerves. Surprisingly, injury is not the most common cause of this painful condition. David Petron, MD, a sports medicine ...

NBA’s leading all-time scorer is missing the start of the new season due to sciatica. When will the Lakers star return?

Often associated with low back pain, sciatica tends to be more of a pain in the butt – and sometimes also the leg. That’s because the pain travels along the sciatic nerves, the longest nerves in your ...

Sciatica is a condition caused by compression or irritation of the sciatic nerve, which runs from the lower back down to the legs. It often leads to sharp, radiating pain that can make simple tasks ...

While people can have both multiple sclerosis (MS) and sciatica, they aren’t the same disease, and their treatments are different. However, some effects of MS can raise the risk of sciatica. Sciatica ...

If you’re a runner (and we’re guessing you are), it is likely you have been confronted with the term ‘sciatica’ at some point – either through a quick Google search to try and identify that nagging ...

A pain in the back of your thigh when running can either be related to the hamstring muscle or a combination of a lumbar disc injury and arthritic narrowing of the spinal canal, resulting in nerve ...

Concurrent pain in your buttocks and the back of an upper thigh points to some specific underlying conditions. Pain in your buttocks or the backs of your upper thighs may be from injuries or muscle ...

The Los Angeles star will miss the opening night matchup with Golden State and delay the start of his 23rd season because of ...