Is it Sciatica
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Just about everyone who has a pain radiating down the leg is diagnosed with sciatica. If a nerve is really pinched you be wracked with pain.
You may simply have a ligament in your lower back, such as the sacroiliac ligament that is not stabilizing your pelvis. The pain or numb feeling down your leg is a referral pain. It isn’t a nerve getting pinched. If you can sit in a chair and raise your leg straight out in front of you without reproducing your pain, then most likely you have a ligament injury and not an injury to your sciatic nerve. (In other words, you don’t have Lumbar Radiculopathy).
If you have more low back pain than leg pain, then most likely you have a ligament injury in your back and not a pinched nerve.
If you are in pain but it isn’t to the point of causing you to sweat, you most likely have a ligament injury, not a sciatic nerve getting pinched.
If you can feel equally in both legs, in other words the numbness you feel isn’t true numbness, because when someone touches your skin you feel it fine. It is thus numbiness. Numbiness is the sensation of numbness, but on physical examination your sensation (sense of touch) is fine. This is a referral sensation, generally from a ligament injury, not a nerve injury.
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