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Twenty-three qualified. Only two of the twenty-three actually examined the patients rather than asking them a questionnaire, and the definitions varied so widely that the prevalence estimates ranged from 1.2% to 43%.\n\n[[embed:source:s1]]\n\nThat spread is not a measurement problem to shrug at. It is the reason two clinicians can give you completely different accounts of how serious your leg pain is, both citing literature. When someone quotes you a recovery rate, a success rate, or a risk, the first thing worth knowing is which definition of sciatica they were counting.\n\n## The symptoms that mean stop reading and go to hospital\n\nThese override every other thing on this page. Go to an emergency department now, not tomorrow, if you have:\n\n- **Loss of bladder or bowel control**, or new trouble starting or stopping urination\n- **Numbness in the area a bicycle seat would touch** — groin, inner thighs, buttocks\n- **Weakness in both legs**, or weakness in one leg that is getting worse by the day\n- **Pain in both legs at once** with any of the above\n\nThat cluster is cauda equina syndrome — the bundle of nerve roots at the bottom of the spinal cord being squeezed. A 2026 review of it draws a line that matters enormously for your outcome: whether you can still empty your bladder when you present. Incomplete cases, where bladder function is impaired but working, do far better than cases that arrive already unable to urinate. The window is measured in hours.\n\n[[embed:source:s4]]\n\nNobody reading a page on the internet should be managing that. Everything below assumes you have ruled it out.\n\n## What is actually pressing on the nerve, and why it changes everything\n\nThe word sciatica covers at least four different situations that behave differently:\n\n**A disc pushing out and touching a nerve root.** The commonest cause by a wide margin. The soft centre of the spinal disc pushes through the tough outer ring and contacts the nerve. This one has a natural history that works in your favour, and the further out the fragment has travelled, the better it tends to clear.\n\n**A narrowed nerve channel.** The bony canal the nerve passes through has closed down, usually with age. Pain comes on with walking and eases when you sit or lean forward. This does not resorb, because nothing has extruded that the body can clear away.\n\n**The nerve compressed outside the spine.** Deep buttock muscles, most often the piriformis, squeezing the nerve after it leaves the spine. Local to the buttock, and it responds to entirely different things than a disc does.\n\n**Something else.** Infection, a tumour, a fracture, hip joint disease that refers pain down the leg. Rare, and the reason unexplained sciatica that does not follow the expected course gets imaged rather than treated for longer.\n\nTwo people with identical leg pain and different causes on this list should not be doing the same things. Most of the confusion in what people are told about sciatica comes from advice generated for one of these being applied to another.\n\n## Your leg is weaker than you think, and your walk hides it\n\nA 2026 study measured people with one-sided sciatica from a disc herniation while they walked, comparing the affected leg to the good one. The affected leg was measurably weaker. 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