Nervous System & Brain
Sciatica & Nerve Pain
عرق النسا اور اعصابی درد
Most sciatica settles without disc surgery.
Many patients avoid an operation
This is one of the conditions where treatment often succeeds without surgery. Every case differs, though — and if an operation is genuinely the right course, you will be told so plainly rather than kept on treatment.
About this condition
Sciatica is pain travelling from the lower back through the buttock and down the leg. The large majority of cases settle without disc surgery. Treatment focuses on the character of the pain — burning, shooting or dull — and what relieves it. Patients have specifically cited sciatica treatment in the clinic’s Google reviews.
Important
Numbness around the groin, or loss of bladder or bowel control with back pain, is a surgical emergency — go to hospital the same hour.
Symptoms we see
- Pain from lower back down one leg
- Burning or shooting sensation
- Numbness or pins and needles
- Worse on sitting or bending
- Weakness in the leg or foot
- Night pain disturbing sleep
Not every patient has every symptom — and the combination present is precisely what determines the remedy.
Lectures on this subject
Recorded by Dr. Umar Farooq on this subject.