This is the most frequent myth that you are told when you have sciatica pain:
Your nerve is trapped and pinched somewhere in your spine
However: such cause is less than 1% of the cases!
This is because when a nerve is pinched or trapped near the spine: the pain remains mainly in the back (not the hips or legs).
To know if a patient is within the 4.90% of injury, this question needs to be asked:
Did you receive a shock on the back? Or were you carrying something very heavy when the pain arose?
Most likely, in 94.20% of cases the answer the question above will be “No“.