If you’ve ever felt aches or pains that radiate down your legs, you may have been dealing with sciatic nerve pain. The sciatic nerve is the biggest in your body and starts in your back and goes down ...

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 ...

When your sciatica is flaring, it's hard to think about anything else. The pain might be so severe, burning, tingling or nagging that it derails your whole day. But a few simple sciatica stretches can ...

About 40% of people in the U.S. experience sciatica—leg pain caused by a pinched nerve in the lower back—at some point in time during their life. Because the condition can be quite painful, and affect ...

Do you have shooting pain in your leg? Numbness in the back of your calf or tingling in your foot? Your symptoms — commonly referred to as sciatica — may be caused by injury or pressure on your spinal ...

Sciatica is a type of nerve pain that radiates down the back into the hip and leg, usually because of a herniated disk. It often goes away in a few weeks, but can become chronic. Compression, ...

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 ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." If you’re among the almost 40% of the population who have sciatica, you know how tough it can be. Even ...

Back pain may be common with age and deskbound lives, but when it is accompanied by numbness or weakness, doctors warn it could signal nerve damage that needs timely medical attention.