On September 23rd, when I went to the clinic, there was a 47-year-old patient, a cab driver, who had sciatica as early as a year ago. At that time, the local hospital let him have an operation, but on the one hand, he was worried and on the other hand, the economy did not allow it, so he stopped paying attention to it, and this year, he mainly took oral painkillers for relief. This situation is not uncommon, whether it is sciatica patients, or through oral painkillers to relieve the response, this method to cover up the condition through drugs is not worth advocating, the increasing number of such patients is due to modern living habits, as they say “white-collar enjoy the blessings”, the wind can not blow, rain can not, but the day is sitting to make money. But for sciatica patients, sitting is a kind of torture. Why does the sciatic nerve hurt? As one of the nerves, the sciatic nerve is the thickest, starting from the spinal cord in the lumbosacral region, and going through many parts of the spinal cord, which will cause pain and numbness once the compression occurs. The spinal canal – the spinal gap – the pelvis – the hip/gluteal muscles, and then down the back of the thigh to the root of the foot, so the patient will experience pain while sitting, and throughout the process The intervertebral disc or bone spur, the pear-shaped muscle, the gluteus maximus, the biceps femoris, the internal thigh muscle, and the gap between the peroneal head and peroneal muscle can all cause compression, affecting the patient’s normal life and work. To alleviate pain, or even treat the disease, you need to find the cause of sciatica! As a clinical condition, there are many causes, such as trauma, cold, and herniated discs, etc., and you need to start with the underlying causes to provide relief. For sciatica caused by lumbar disc herniation, systematic treatment is required. Conservative treatment (medication, bed rest, massage) can only be used as an aid, and for some patients with more severe conditions, minimally invasive surgery may need to be considered for treatment. How to relieve the pain sensation? Patients with sciatica should rest more, but if the pain is too severe, they can take closed therapy, that is, closed injection, which injects drugs into the spinal canal and around the nerve roots to make the patient unable to perceive the pain through local anesthesia, which is the most rapid and effective way to relieve pain. As I said above, oral painkillers can only relieve pain and have no therapeutic effect on the disease itself, so it is not recommended to take drugs blindly to carry on, but if it is only to spend the acute period and relieve pain with a view to treatment, painkillers are the most convenient and inexpensive way to relieve pain.