Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, 1941;23:417-434.
© 1941 by The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc
NEURO-ANATOMICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL ASPECTS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SCIATICA
WINCHELL McK. CRAIG M.D.1 and
MAURICE N. WALSH M.D.1
1 Section on Neurosurgery and the Section on Neurology, The Mayo Clinic
The interesting subject of sciatic pain in relationship to neuroanatomy and physiology could be pursued at great length. In this paper we have endeavored to present the modern concepts of the outstanding causative factors in the production of such pain. That new causes for sciatic pain will be discovered in the future and that further modification of our present ideas will become necessary is inevitable. At present, however, it is undoubtedly true that more patients who have this distressing symptom of sciatic pain can be relieved of their pain than was the case at any previous period of medical history.