“It externally rotates your hip.” (Say, for instance, when you move your leg out to the side to step into a car.) The sciatic nerve starts outside of your spine, travels through your ...

hip or leg. The pain typically occurs when the body’s piriformis muscle presses on the sciatic nerve which results in inflammation. The piriformis is a muscle that runs down from the lower spine ...

On "The Drew Barrymore Show," MacDowell said she now lives in a South Carolina community with "people my age" and delved into recent health problems.

Andie MacDowell, 66, revealed on The Drew Barrymore Show that she has been diagnosed with piriformis syndrome, which causes sciatic nerve pain. Treatment and diligent hip exercises have relieved ...

Sciatica is a common cause of buttock pain that occurs when the sciatic nerve gets compressed or pinched. It causes nerve ...

so it’s a muscle that kind of clamps down on my sciatic nerve, and it was shooting down my leg,” MacDowell, 66, said, according to People. “I thought I was going to have to have hip ...

The Four Weddings and a Funeral actress, 66, shared on the Thursday, January 23, episode of The Drew Barrymore Show how she feared she needed a hip replacement after experiencing “shooting [pain ...

In all cases the pathway was identical, with an oblique and vertical portion running down through the ischio-trochanteric channel. The cutaneous projection of the sciatic nerve was distant from ...

"I have piriformis syndrome, so it's a muscle that kind of clamps down on my sciatic nerve, and it was shooting down my leg," MacDowell told Barrymore, 49. "I thought I was going to have to have hip ...