Sciatica:  The term sciatica describes the symptoms of leg pain and possibly tingling, numbness or weakness that travels from the low back through the buttock and down the large sciatic nerve in the back of the leg.  For some, sciatica can be severe and debilitating. Clinical diagnosis of sciatica is referred to as a "radiculopathy", which means simply that a disc or spinal bone has protruded from its normal position in the vertebral column and is putting pressure on the nerve root in the lower back, which forms part of the sciatic nerve.  Medications will not correct the aberrant spine and discal structure.  Only procedures to make the compressed area more malleable, coupled with spine and disc decompression protocols, and then spine and muscle strengthening, will correct this type of debilitating pain will correct this type of debilitating pain as well as prevent its recurrence.