Diagnosing the cause of a back problem can be very difficult. The source of pain can be almost impossible to pinpoint in many cases. A muscle strain won’t show up on a MRI or X-ray making it hard to say exactly what’s been injured. But one of the most common diagnosis is muscle sprain. A [...]

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Since Piriformis syndrome is a pain in the sciatic nerve, sciatic pain and Piriformis Syndrome are fairly similar diseases. Piriformis syndrome is a condition in which piriformis muscle irritates sciatic nerve, causing severe pain in back which can then spread to the back of leg and eventually to the foot. Mostly this disease is [...]

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Sciatic pain is a condition in which patient experiences pain in the lower back, legs, feet as well as buttock. The reason for this pain is compression of sciatic nerve which may be associated with irritation of the nerve or nerve roots from where sciatic nerve arises. Some times, just irritation alone is responsible [...]

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