What are the symptoms of sciatica like?

Shooting pain: Sciatica is the more common term for lumbar radiculopathy. This usually means a pinched lumbar spinal nerve which can result in numbness, weakness, and pain in specific distributions depending on which spinal nerve is affected.

Leg pain: Sciatica means leg or thigh pain. It does not mean more then that. However, most of the time when people say sciatica they mean radiculopathy which is a pinched nerve in the back. The symptoms are leg pain with numbness or tingling.

Pain down leg: Shooting pain down one leg.

Back & Leg Pain: Sciatica is pain in the distribution of the leg as a result of an irritated nerve or facet joints or other injury typically in the lumbar spine (low back) which are caused by herniated disks, spinal stenosis or degenerative disc disease, etc requiring further evaluation by a spine specialist and may be candidate for facet injections/radiofrequency ablation and epidural steroid injection.