![]() You may also experience numbness or muscle weakness in your leg or a difficulty in moving your lower back. ![]() The pain is aggravated by sneezing, coughing, and sitting. The pain is usually present on only one side of the lower body. The pain can vary from a mild ache to totally unbearable sharp shooting pain which feels like an electric shock. The most common symptom of sciatica is pain that originated in the lower back and radiates to your buttock and the back of the leg. ![]() Other factors that may contribute to sciatica include trauma to the back, poor posture, irregular or no exercise, prolonged sitting, improper body mechanics, nerve damage (diabetes), and smoking. Sciatica may be caused by lumbar spinal disorders such as a herniated disc, spinal stenosis, degenerative disc disease, spondylosis, spondylolisthesis (degenerative or isthmic) or a vertebral compression fracture. The sciatic nerve is one of the longest nerves in the body, extending from the lower back to the foot, passing through the buttock and the back of the leg. Sciatica is a condition characterized by a group of symptoms caused by pressure or damage to the sciatic nerve.
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