Piriformis syndrome can be a real pain in the butt.
Sciatic nerve pain on side of leg.
People describe it in all sorts of ways burning tingling numbness radiating pain or.
This is a bit like neck pain causing referred pain in the shoulder the location of the pain and the problem are not always the same.
What this pain shares in common is an injury to a nerve an irritation inflammation pinching or compression of a nerve in your lower back.
Pain on both sides is very rare in case of sciatica.
It can range from a mild ache to sharp severe pain.
That pinch results in pain and sometimes weakness up and down the leg usually just on one side.
Sciatica most commonly occurs when a herniated disk bone spur on the spine or narrowing of the spine spinal stenosis.
Typically sciatica affects only one side of your body.
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.
You can also get numbness.
The most distinctive sign of sciatica is pain that radiates from your lower back into the back or side or your legs.
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 problem is piriformis syndrome is often mistaken for sciatica.
Continuous pain in one side of the body i e buttock leg thigh calf.
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.