Sciatica

[chachee52]

Originally Posted by Bigwaved

Just like a lot of imaging backs up that a lot of people are symptom free even with quite large bulges.

BTW, sciatca is a junk term in my opinion. Do you agree? I can count on one hand how many true sciatic nerve impingements I have seen at the piriformis. Most people report a pain that is really referred from somewhere else.

I will agree with the last aspect as well. As I stated, Sciatica is a generalized term that just means irritation of the nerve. I can honestly say that I have seen a few piriformis syndromes, but when it comes down to it,the piriformis was tight because of other issues.
I also agree that there are people that have no syptoms with large herniations and there are some people that have lots of symptoms with small herniations. There was a study taken that took 100 people off the street without any back pain reported ever, and it came back with about 60% of the people had some kind of herniation.