How to Use sciatica in a Sentence

sciatica

noun

• There Yuri Yudin had a flareup of sciatica that forced him to pull out of the trip.
  — Douglas Preston, The New Yorker, 10 May 2021
• The singer and actress will reschedule her May shows because of problems with sciatica.
  — Colin Stutz, Billboard, 9 May 2017
• But then sciatica became an issue; Sisi’s last hunt was in 1882.
  — David Netto, Town & Country, 7 Aug. 2019
• Most cases of sciatica do respond to these kinds of treatments.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 29 Aug. 2018
• Moore also described to the judge Payton's health problems, including sciatica, which can cause pain the back and legs.
  — Ashley Remkus, AL.com, 26 Feb. 2018
• But apart from recurrent episodes of sciatica and problems with his right knee that have forced the cancellation of events and even trips, the pope’s health has not given much cause for alarm.
  — Gaia Pianigiani, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Apr. 2023
• Yuri Yudin, whose sciatica compelled him to abandon the trip, likewise maintained that the deaths were not natural.
  — Douglas Preston, The New Yorker, 10 May 2021
• But that’s what can happen with the painful condition sciatica.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 29 Aug. 2018
• Researchers plan to enroll patients with lower back and leg pain brought on by sciatica, or compression of spinal nerves.
  — Sam Wood, Philly.com, 22 Feb. 2018
• Francis, who became pope 10 years ago, has knee problems and sciatica that have caused a severe limp and have, in recent months, often required him to use a wheelchair.
  — Gaia Pianigiani and Elisabetta Povoledo, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Mar. 2023
• Francis, who became pope 10 years ago, has knee problems and sciatica that have caused a severe limp and have, in recent months, often required him to use a wheelchair.
  — Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2023
• The statement on his website said the bottom disc in Woods’s lower back had severely narrowed, causing sciatica and severe pain in his back and legs.
  — The Associated Press, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2017
• More than a decade ago, the biology teacher from County Kerry, Ireland, was laid up in the hospital with sciatica in both legs.
  — Sol Neelman, WIRED, 28 Aug. 2012
• Margolis wears it on her neck; her mother uses it for sciatica.
  — Lizzie Widdicombe, The New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2017
• Olivia Newton-John has postponed this month's tour dates due to sciatica, according to her manager.
  — Daily Southtown, 11 May 2017
• Lower back pain and sciatica were companions for years.
  — Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Nov. 2022
• As many as 40% of adults experience sciatica in the course of a lifetime, experts have estimated.
  — Dana Santas, CNN, 19 Aug. 2022
• Our editor, who is developing sciatica, used it mainly on hips and thighs to great relief.
  — Julie Laing, Health, 23 Mar. 2023
• Having a weak core can lead to injuries, sciatica , bad balance, low endurance and difficulty breathing.
  — Ebony Williams, ajc, 7 Apr. 2022
• Francis was visibly limping in a sign his sciatica, which has flared and forced him to cancel events recently, was possibly bothering him.
  — Nicole Winfield, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Mar. 2021
• What at first manifested as back tightness in March during big-league camp with the Chicago Cubs by early May had morphed into debilitating sciatica.
  — Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 26 Aug. 2022
• Degenerative disc disease: condition in which a damaged vertebral disc causes chronic pain – either low back pain (and/or leg pain, sciatica) in the lumbar spine or neck pain (and/or arm pain) in the cervical spine.
  — St. Elizabeth Healthcare, Cincinnati.com, 23 Oct. 2017
• Nonetheless, the physician assistant, Charles Loucraft, evidently didn’t read the records and diagnosed Luppold, who was 35 at the time, with worsening sciatica, Higgins said.
  — Jonathan Saltzman, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Mar. 2023
• Sarah B., a 43-year-old construction worker in Vancouver, Wash., said that when her father entered hospice care at his home in Oregon, she was addicted to opioids, stemming from a hydrocodone prescription for sciatica.
  — Melissa Bailey, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2017
• Sarah B., a 43-year-old construction worker in Vancouver, Wash., said when her father entered hospice care at his home in Oregon, she was addicted to opioids, stemming from a hydrocodone prescription for sciatica.
  — Melissa Bailey, Kaiser Health News, 22 Aug. 2017
• Sarah B., a 43-year-old construction worker in Vancouver, Washington, said that when her father entered hospice care at his home in Oregon, she was addicted to opioids, stemming from a hydrocodone prescription for sciatica.
  — chicagotribune.com, 21 Aug. 2017
• With weekly dialysis treatments came a multitude of side effects: weight loss, sciatica, fluid retention and vision damage.
  — Amanda Mitchell, Marie Claire, 10 Dec. 2018
• This can cause additional symptoms like sciatica (pain radiating down the leg) or cervical radiculopathy (pain radiating down the arm).
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 25 June 2023
• However, the right corrective exercises, done regularly, can be effective in not only relieving sciatica but also preventing it.
  — Dana Santas, CNN, 19 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024