Sciatica and other nerve-related pain often need a targeted approach — from the right medication to image-guided nerve-root procedures when appropriate.
Nerve pain — burning, shooting, or radiating pain — behaves differently from muscle or joint pain and often responds to different treatment. Identifying the affected nerve is the key to targeting it.
Pain radiating from an irritated nerve root, such as sciatica — often from the lower back into the leg.
Pain from nerve dysfunction itself, which frequently responds to specific medication rather than standard painkillers.
We identify whether pain is coming from a nerve root, and which one — using history, examination and imaging where useful.
Nerve-specific medication and rehabilitation, with image-guided nerve-root procedures such as transforaminal injections where appropriate.
We track your response and adjust. Where a surgical opinion is relevant, it's arranged through the team.
Sciatica is pain that travels along the path of the sciatic nerve, usually from the lower back into the buttock and down the leg. It's often caused by irritation or compression of a nerve root in the spine.
Many episodes settle over weeks with the right management. Pain that's severe, persistent, or comes with weakness or numbness warrants earlier assessment and may benefit from image-guided treatment.
Nerve pain often responds to a combination of specific medications, rehabilitation, and where appropriate, image-guided nerve-root procedures such as transforaminal injections. The plan is tailored after assessment.
Seek urgent care if you develop significant leg weakness, numbness around the groin, or any change in bladder or bowel control. These are warning signs that need prompt attention.
Patients with radicular or neuropathic pain are assessed for targeted treatment, including image-guided nerve-root procedures where appropriate, within a multidisciplinary team.