Sciatica and Radicular (Nerve Related) Back and Leg Pain Lumbar (low back) radiculopathy causes lower extremity sciatic symptoms. Written by Donald S. Corenman, MD, DC
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Do you have lower back or buttock pain that runs down into one thigh or below the knee into the leg? If so, your doctor may diagnose your symptoms as sciatica—a term doctors use to describe compression of the sciatic nerve. Sensations, or unusual feelings may include numbness, tingling, pins and needles, and sometimes pain is described as electric-shock-like. Depending upon the individual nerve that is affected, pain can radiate only into the buttocks or all the way down to the foot. A common cause of sciatica and nerve compression is a lumbar disc herniation or bone spur that presses on a spinal nerve in the low back.
Sciatica pain radiates along the sciatic nerve, usually from the low back, down the buttocks, into the thigh and leg. One hallmark of classic sciatica is the pain and symptoms are felt below the knee and sometimes into the foot and great toe. Usually, sciatica only affects one side of the lower body.
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