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Every day in my office, people are talking about
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sciatica. I think I have sciatica. And I wanted
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to kind of clear up some misconceptions about
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sciatica. And I actually got a new poster in
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my office that's gonna help us do it. So if you
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take a look at this poster, you've got your spine
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coming down and your spinal cord and all the
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nerves that branch off, and then it becomes the
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sciatic nerve. This big, thick nerve. It's actually
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as big as my thumb. And it comes down the back
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of the leg. So if you look at me, it's gonna
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come out from here and it goes down the back
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of the leg. And here's how it would present.
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Someone with sciatica, a lot of times they're
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gonna have back pain, sometimes they don't. But
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typically, they might lean like this and ah!
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It bites and shoots down their leg like a lightning
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bolt. Okay, not an aching leg. People come in
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sometimes and they have a little bit of a hamstring
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strain and they think it's sciatica. Another
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thing is people come in and they have groin pain,
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or they have pain down the front of the leg,
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and they think it's sciatica. That's a totally
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different nerve. That's not sciatica. Sciatica
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is only down the back of the leg. Another distinction
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I want to make, this is called your ilium, or
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some people call it their big hip bone, and it
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forms a joint with the sacrum. And this is called
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your sacroiliac joint, sometimes called an SI
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joint. And what happens with this, because that
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word sacroiliac sounds like sciatica, everybody
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confuses that. But they're totally different.
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They require different type of treatment. And
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so we want to kind of make a clear distinction.
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I don't expect you to basically diagnose yourself,
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but there's some information there that can help
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distinguish whether you have sciatica or not.
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If you or anyone you know think you have sciatica,
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have a back anything, have a neck anything, you
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call us. We're in Delray Beach and we are on
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a mission to help you Feel your best.