Journal of the American Chiropractic Association, Mar 2001
Researchers Take Aim at Sciatica
Sciatica is a powerful word. The mere mention of it can send shudders through anyone who has suffered its burning, shooting pain. It's also a big word, despite its economy of letters, referring to a wide range of symptoms and causes. Sciatica is widely recognized as a common variation of low-back pain, with a lifetime incidence estimated between 2 and 40 percent; among patients with low-back pain, 12 percent experience accompanying leg symptoms.1
"Sciatica is very relevant for doctors of chiropractic because studies show that between 50 and 75 percent of their patients seek care because of back pain," says Gert Bronfort, DC, PhD, and professor in the Department of Research at Northwestern Health Sciences University, "A substantial proportion of those patients will have sciatica, which is the popular term for pain radiating into the back of the leg, and that is commonly associated with a nerve root irritation in the lower back."
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