“Sciatica refers to pain down the leg along the course of the sciatic nerve, and typically the cause is compression of one of the nerves in the spine,” says Mr Michael Mokawem, a consultant ...

because the sciatic nerve commonly courses this site (Fig. 1). Ndiaye, Sakho, Fall, Dia, and Sow (2004) performed sciatic nerve gluteal dissection on 10 fresh adult African cadavers, on both sides.