It was hard for Jamie to see her young, athletic daughter Sarah suffer an injury that left her with horrible back and sciatica pain. The pain mystified the highly touted surgeons in their hometown of Atlanta. Luckily, Sarah’s stepmom had a similar pain problem...
Transcript: I just want to document this really interesting anatomy here. You can see down here, this is piriformis muscle here, it’s just the nerve anatomy is very unusual. So there’s two main piriformis muscles with the lateral division transiting...
Transcript: One of the big parts of this operation is just getting down to the piriformis muscle, because it’s basically right in the center of the pelvis, this structure. The size of the patient can really make this an easy or a harder endeavor. And what I use...
Transcript: Hi, my name is Judy and I live in Virginia. I’ve been suffering from piriformis syndrome for the last 16 years. My problem is I can’t stand long and I can’t walk far without irritating the sciatic nerve. The only way I can get rid of my...
Sarah was a young athlete in her prime, enjoying high school and excelling in many sports. A nerve injury sidelined her. She languished for months in search of a diagnosis. None of the surgeons she saw understood her pain problem. After months of suffering and...
This particular patient has had a total hip arthroplasty and the pathology in piriformis syndrome is primarily compression of the sciatic nerve by the piriformis muscle. When you have a hip replacement, they will often disconnect the piriformis muscle, and...
What is it? And how do you manage the unpredictable CRPS pain? Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) is a rare, debilitating disorder that usually follows an injury.1 After a physical injury, stroke, heart attack, or surgery, the nerve to the respective area works...
Sara-Maria was a young woman in her thirties confined to bed because of debilitating abdominal pain. As a professor, she knew how to research online and sought help. After seeing 32 doctors and enduring unnecessary, ineffective surgeries and procedures, she had...
Is your sciatica acting up, or do you have piriformis syndrome? You may be surprised at just how much these conditions get confused with one another. If you have chronic pain that radiates through your buttocks and lower back, it could mean that you’re living...
Dr. Tim Tollestrup has changed the lives of hundreds of patients from all over the world suffering from chronic pain conditions previously considered untreatable. In this video, he explains how gratifying this is as a surgeon through the lens of his patient Shelby who...
