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 ...

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 ...

Sometimes, this infernal ache in the lower left of my back spreads beyond that area, into the sciatic nerve. That sharp electric pain then fires down my buttock and into the front of my thighs.

"Four Weddings and a Funeral" star Andie MacDowell — who is also the mom of Margaret Qualley — thought she was "literally falling apart" amid her piriformis syndrome diagnosis.