The term sciatica describes pain along the path of the sciatic nerve from the lower back, through the hips and buttocks, and down the back of the legs to the feet. Sciatica typically affects only one leg, but can be felt on both sides. Sciatica can vary from mild discomfort to severe pain and can include numbness, tingling, burning, and weakness. Some people experience increased pain upon standing while others experience increased pain when sitting. The pain is caused by compression or irritation of the sciatica nerve typically in the lower back but sometimes originating in the hip/butt. People with sciatica are often told the cause of the pain is lumbar spinal stenosis, degenerative disc disease, spondylolisthesis, bone spur(s), herniated or ruptured lumbar disc, piriformis syndrome, or muscle spasms. The focus of effective sciatica treatment should always be on finding and fixing the underlying cause of the sciatica, which means figuring out why someone herniated a disc, or why someone has degenerative disc disease, or why someone has spinal stenosis, or why someone has muscle spasms.
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