True and Simulated Sciatica

Association between sciatica and microbial infection: true infection or culture contamination?

STUDY DESIGN Discs were cultured during discectomy from patients with back pain, sciatica, and radiologic evidence of disc herniation causing nerve root compression. OBJECTIVE To investigate the claim of culpability of bacteria in causing the local inflammatory process seen in patients with disc herniation and radiculopathy. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA Bacteria have been cultured from interv...

persian true and false cognates in english: students and teachers’ attitudes, awareness, and instruction

the ability to speak two languages in the world is a remarkable achievement. there is a good reason to believe that bilingualism is the norm for the majority of people in the world because 70% of the earth’s population are supposed to be bilingual or multilingual. various investigations have shown that the native language impacts foreign word recognition, and this influence is adapted by the de...

Sciatica.

The mundane malady sciatica has been known to physicians since antiquity.1 It is pain that radiates from the buttock downward along the course of the sciatic nerve,2 but the term has been used indiscriminately for a variety of back and leg symptoms. Although sciatica has several causes, Mixter and Barr extended previous observations to establish in 1934 that the principal source is compression ...

The Intervertebral Disc and Sciatica

Sciatica: A Fresh Study

Following a historical survey of the views generally held regarding the essential lesion underlying sciatica, the writer elaborates his own view that sciatica is really an affection of the hip-joint, rheumatic or gouty in origin. The steps by which he arrives at this opinion are ingenious and reasonable. They are anatomical and clinical, and are fully considered in the book, which should be con...