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The Percentage Of Sciatica Patient Having Prirformis Syndrome

June 3rd, 2009

Now what percentage of the people with sciatica have piriformis syndrome in the first place? No one knows. We certainly don’t, since our population of patients is significantly skewed toward those people that have it!The only thing found is that many patients that came to cure sciatica were mostly having herniated disc.

Twenty years ago doctors at the Mayo Clinic estimated piriformis syndrome to account for 6% of sciatica, (Hallin, 1983) but the incidence of the diagnosis in the county of the Mayo Clinic has gone up five-fold since then. (Fishman,2003) Comparing the number of MRIs done annually the United States with the number of lumbar surgeries, a neurosurgeon at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Beverly Hills, California estimated that piriformis syndrome may be as common a cause of sciatica as herniated disc.

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