Sciatica: pain that radiates down one or both of your legs from your lower back. It happens when you get too much pressure on your sciatic nerve, and becomes more common after you turn 40 – though it can happen even to young children.
Maybe you’ve been suffering from some lower back or leg pain yourself and think you could have sciatica. Perhaps you’ve seen commercials on TV for medications that offer relief for sciatica pain.
Before you start looking into those medications, though, you should learn whether or not you actually have sciatica – and then …