Ever been lying in bed at night, trying to doze off, when you suddenly feel a jolt of pain running down your back and into your buttock or leg? Sciatica-related lower back pain is a common problem, ...

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Often associated with low back pain, sciatica tends to be more of a pain in the butt – and sometimes also the leg. That’s because the pain travels along the sciatic nerves, the longest nerves in your ...

At some point, 60% of the population has had or will have lower back pain, says Kin M. Yuen, M.D., a sleep medicine specialist at UCSF Health in San Francisco, California. That means at any one point, ...

Figuring out how to sleep with lower back pain can feel impossible. The tossing and turning, the struggle to find a comfortable position and the frustration of waking up feeling even worse than before ...

Sciatica is a literal pain in the butt—one that 40 percent of people will experience at some point in their lives. If you’ve ever felt a sharp, shooting, pulsing, or throbbing pain anywhere down the ...

If you’ve experienced sciatica before, you know the stubborn pain can ruin your whole week. Sciatica is a type of back pain that occurs when there’s pressure on the sciatic nerve, which extends from ...

Sciatica is a general term for pain related to the legs and issues with spinal nerves. Surprisingly, injury is not the most common cause of this painful condition. David Petron, MD, a sports medicine ...

“Painsomnia” may not be an official medical term, but it’s a very real problem that steals precious hours of sleep from millions of Americans every night. Insomnia and chronic pain go hand-in-hand, ...