get RSSIn patient care with complaints of recurring low back pain and sciatica. Patients need to consider that even though pain subsides down the leg through rest or interventions. That the sciatic nerve can become adhered through intraneural edema. And similar to a stiff elbow after removing a cast off it due to a fracture, the elbow may not be as painful but will be very stiff.
Likewise, a reduction in symptoms down the leg, does not necessarily mean that the sciatic nerve is mobile. Thorough testing for nerve mobility, that is asymptomatic but could be asymmetrical to the unaffected side, at least from my clinical opinion, could be a factor to recurring sciatica and low back pain.
