What does sciatica feel like

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Since last year, there has been a burning sensation in the waist, and pain relief often occurs, which is like needle pricking. People nearby told me that this is sciatica, which can be treated with hot compress to relieve the disease. But I still chose to go to the hospital for treatment, after treatment is now good, I put the sciatica what feeling sort out, for your reference.

What does sciatica feel like

Symptom 1: the onset varies with the cause of disease. The most common lumbar disc herniation, often in force, bending or intense activity and other incentives, acute or subacute onset.

Symptom 2: a small number of chronic onset. The pain usually radiates from the waist to one side of the buttocks and thighs, the popliteal fossa, the lateral side of the lower leg and the foot, presenting as burning or knife cutting pain. The pain can be aggravated when coughing and exerting, especially at night.

Symptom 3: in order to avoid nerve traction and compression, patients often take special pain reducing posture, such as lying on the healthy side while sleeping, flexing the hip and knee, exerting on the healthy side when standing, causing scoliosis for a long time, bending to the healthy side, and leaning to the healthy side when sitting into the hip, so as to reduce the pressure on nerve roots.

matters needing attention

Warm reminder: we should pay special attention to the chief complaint of sober patients, and properly fix the body position that has been properly placed, so as not to shift it. It is especially forbidden to arbitrarily pull the abductor limb in the fixed position; During the operation, it is necessary to strengthen the observation of the abduction degree of the upper limb and the skin of the compressed part, and make necessary correction in time. The second assistant of the operation often pushes the abduction side of the upper limb, resulting in excessive abduction and external rotation of the upper limb more than 90 degrees, and even squeezing the upper limb self-supporting hand board to make the upper limb hanging on the operating table, which need to be corrected in time.