Sciatica- It's a thing!
Hi all, This past year I’ve been teaching both human biology and general biology to students at Clark College. Thus you haven’t seen a new blog from me in quite some time. I thought now would be a great time to get started again by blogging about an all too common aliment known as sciatica (sciatica= irritation to the sciatic nerve causing leg pain). Before I get started on that, note that the word doctor comes from the Latin word doc ēre, meaning “to teach”. I’ve been busy lately teaching college student’s complex neurological pathways. The sciatic nerve pathway, like many others, is fairly complex. If I were teaching my college students I would explain how the sciatic nerve originates from anterior and posterior divisions of the lumbosacral plexus (L4-5 and S1-3), the nerve roots then join together forming the sciatic nerve, pass through the sciatic notch, down the thigh to the popliteal fossa, and then split into the tibial and common fibular nerves. It’s been a rewar