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What is the risk of sciatic nerve injury?
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It depends: The sciatic nerve could injured with disc rupture or herniated, or could be injured as complication of fracture or dislocation or direct injury by sharp object and some time when doing certain producers. The most common is by disc injury.
Answered 8/4/2012
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