Can Back Pain Affect Your Legs
Sciatic Nerve Links the Back to the Legs.
Can back pain affect your legs. Degenerative disc disease DDD can affect any part of the spine but it most commonly affects the low back lumbar spine or neck cervical spine. Tingling numbness or muscle weakness in the affected leg or foot. Therefore when your back hurts so might your knees.
Adult scoliosis can cause low-back pain but its often leg pain or sciatica that drives patients to the Spine Center. Consistently tight and overworked hip flexors mean permanent roadblocks for back hip and leg health and for sexual health too. So when your back is responsible for your leg pain it is because something is touching pinching or compressing a nerve.
The pain sometimes extends beyond your neck or lower back too. In some cases back pain can extend to other areas of the body specifically to your legs. It makes your hips hurt.
Increased pain going downhill. Some milder problems include. The most common back ailments that cause pain in the knees are related to the sciatic nerve.
Weakness in the muscles. You may experience pain at the site of the damaged discin your lower back for instance. Back pain may be an aching sharp or burning type pain and may include symptoms other than pain including weakness numbness or tingling.
Sciatica could involve pain in the buttocks down the thigh into the leg or in the foot. Tingling numbness or burning sensation down your leg. Can be constant or intermittent.
