J Korean Pain Soc.
1989 May;2(1):72-77.
Treatment of the Piriformis Syndrome
- Affiliations
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- 1Department of Anesthesiology, Public Corporation Incheon Generl Uopital, Korea.
Abstract
- Sciatic neuralgia has been considered as the symptom of herniated lumbar disk, but disk disease is met the only causes of sciatic neuralgia. Sciatic neuralgia uncombined with disk disease in thought to be a sign of myofascial syndrome of the piriform is muscle. Local anesthetic injection into piriform is muscle is recommended for the therapeutic treatment of sciatica without lumbago.
