What is the difference between sciatica and rheumatism

summary

These days when I go to work, I always feel pain in my waist, buttocks and thighs. When I want to go for a walk, I feel uncomfortable standing. I go to the hospital for examination. I say it's sciatica, but I always think it's rheumatism. Let's share the difference between sciatica and rheumatism.

What is the difference between sciatica and rheumatism

First, sciatica refers to sciatic neuropathy, along the sciatic nerve pathway that is waist, hip, thigh, leg posterolateral and foot lateral pain symptoms. The disease mainly involved the soft tissues, joints, tendons, rheumatoid joints, etc.

Second: sciatica is the direction of the medullary nerve, radiating pain downward from the back of the waist and legs, while rheumatism is a fixed area. First go to the hospital to do a lumbar CT, and conservative treatment methods of traditional Chinese medicine can be used, such as acupuncture and moxibustion, massage, traction, electric baking, medium frequency, etc.

Third: General rheumatism will not cause sciatica, sciatica is mostly caused by lumbar disease, you can go to the hospital to check the lumbar spine, and lumbar stiffness, hip and thigh will also be numb, basic is also caused by lumbar disease.

matters needing attention

Sciatica is a kind of orthopedic disease that needs good maintenance. If we don't pay attention to maintenance, it may lead to frequent occurrence of sciatica and do more harm to patients, so we need to treat it as soon as possible to avoid suffering from the disease.