If you’ve ever felt aches or pains that radiate down your legs, you may have been dealing with sciatic nerve pain. The sciatic nerve is the biggest in your body and starts in your back and goes down ...

Researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Institute for Nerve Medicine in Los Angeles, have found that new nerve imaging technology called Magnetic ...

Piriformis syndrome is an uncommon condition where your piriformis muscle puts pressure on your sciatic nerve. The hallmark symptom is shooting, aching, or burning pain in your buttocks and the back ...

It’s important to not only identify this painful condition correctly, but find exercises you can comfortably do.

Do you have shooting pain in your leg? Numbness in the back of your calf or tingling in your foot? Your symptoms — commonly referred to as sciatica — may be caused by injury or pressure on your spinal ...

Dear Dr. Donohue: I suffer from sciatica. Do steroid injections for it work? Is it possible to overdose? Any additional information on this painful condition will be appreciated. A. Somewhere between ...

Several aspects of your leg's strength and stability can be determined with a straight leg raise test (SLR). A doctor performs a straightforward leg test by lying the patient flat on a bed and raising ...

The Los Angeles Lakers started off their 2025-2026 season without LeBron James in the lineup, but signs of his return are now emerging as he recovers from ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." There are few things worse than an achy, lower body. That discomfort is extra miserable when accompanied ...

The 40-year-old is one step closer to joining the Lakers for his 23rd NBA season after being sidelined since the preseason.