How is sciatica different to other back pain? Health Consultation Description: How is sciatica different to other back pain?

What are sciatica symptoms? Health Consultation Description: What are sciatica symptoms?

What can I do to prevent sciatica coming back? Health Consultation Description: What can I do to prevent sciatica coming back?

Is there any home remedy to relieve sciatica pain? Health Consultation Description: I don't want to rely on drugs for sciatica, what else can I do to relieve the pain?

Why I have leg pain after herniated discs surgery? Health Consultation Description: I had back surgery in 1996 for a herniated disk at the L5-S1 position. Two years later, I had a severe episode of pain in my right calf and the right side of my right foot. The same severe symptoms returned a year later, and they have returned a third time this year. I have been in considerable discomfort for the last 3 months, and I have "twitching" of the muscles on my right calf when I am at rest. I have been told that my condition is caused by scar tissue at the site of surgery compressing the nerve. My question is, how sure can we be that the problem is really scar tissue? Because of the long period after surgery before I had severe symptoms, and because I overcame severe problems twice in the past, I don't understand how the problem could be scar tissue. Should my physicians be looking for something else? This year, I have seen an MRI specialist, a neurologist, and a neurosurgeon. Should I be seeing another type of health professional?

Diagnosis for sciatica from a herniated disc Health Consultation Description: I experience numbness and tingling in my leg. I have a lumbar herniated disc at L5, which is causing sciatica. Besides an MRI, is there another test to determine if the sciatica is caused by nerve compression and to identify which nerves are being compressed?

Is There Another Option Besides Surgery? Health Consultation Description: I have been diagnosed with a C5-C6 cervical herniated disc that is compressing the spinal cord. Anterior cervical fusion surgery has been recommended with urgency. However, I am concerned that the discs adjacent to the fusion site may become vulnerable and that the fusion may not be successful. What less invasive procedures can treat a cervical herniated disc affecting the spinal cord?

How long will pain after herniated disc surgery last? Health Consultation Description: 18 months ago, I had surgery to repair two Herniated Disc in the same area. For several years prior to and following the disc surgery, I had incredible, often incapacitating pain in the upper right buttock and the entire right leg. I recently had lumbar laminectomy and decompression at L5. Since the recent laminectomy, I continue to have the same significant pain in the right buttock. Most of the time, I do not have leg pain except when I'm nearing the time for another dose of my medication. I continue to have limited walking, sitting and standing ability without pain. How long will this pain continue and how long will I need to take pain medication? I have been a long time runner, biker and swimmer in spite of past pain. How long before I can resume some activity?

What Is the Difference Between a Bulging and Herniated Disc? Health Consultation Description: What Is the Difference Between a Bulging and Herniated Disc?

Why might a herniated disc cause pain? Health Consultation Description: Why Might a Herniated Disc Cause Pain?