Piriformis syndrome can be a real pain in the butt.
Sciatic nerve pain on side of leg.
Sciatica refers to pain that radiates along the path of the sciatic nerve which branches from your lower back through your hips and buttocks and down each leg.
Typically sciatica affects only one side of your body.
It can range from a mild ache to sharp severe pain.
Sciatica most commonly occurs when a herniated disk bone spur on the spine or narrowing of the spine spinal stenosis.
That pinch results in pain and sometimes weakness up and down the leg usually just on one side.
Pain on both sides is very rare in case of sciatica.
True injury to the sciatic nerve sciatica is actually rare but the term sciatica is commonly used to describe any pain that originates in the lower back and radiates down the leg.
The hallmark sign is hip and or buttock pain on one side of the body along with low back pain that radiates down one or both legs.
The problem is piriformis syndrome is often mistaken for sciatica.
The most distinctive sign of sciatica is pain that radiates from your lower back into the back or side or your legs.
Pain affects the lower back and the whole leg but in some cases the back pain might be absent whereas the leg pain could be very severe.
People describe it in all sorts of ways burning tingling numbness radiating pain or.
Pain down the side or front of the leg or thigh is not sciatic and some pains in the right area may be due to referred pain from other structures such as spinal joints.
The common symptoms of sciatica are.
Continuous pain in one side of the body i e buttock leg thigh calf.