How to Use sciatic nerve in a Sentence

sciatic nerve

noun
  • The sciatic nerve is the largest and thickest nerve of the human body.
    — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Nov. 2022
  • The pain came on slow and built over the next two weeks until one day the disc pinched her sciatic nerve.
    — WIRED, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The team was even able to connect the new nerve to a mouse’s sciatic nerve for testing.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 11 Jan. 2026
  • The dye somehow made its way to the sciatic nerve, which runs throughout the back of the leg.
    — Byrodrigo Pérez Ortega, science.org, 4 Sep. 2024
  • The increase in speed, though, caused the sciatic nerve running down her right hip to fire.
    — August Cole, Wired, 5 June 2020
  • The gentle warmth will help to relieve tightness and take pressure off the sciatic nerve.
    — Kaitlyn McInnis, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Sometimes, intense sciatic nerve pain would sideline him from events.
    — Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 21 Apr. 2025
  • To find out if this was the case, the scientists studied how many nerve fibers made up the giraffe sciatic nerve.
    — Perrin Ireland, Discover Magazine, 27 Feb. 2013
  • The sciatic nerve is the largest nerve in the body (about the size of your finger, only a little flatter).
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 29 Aug. 2023
  • The pillow fights sciatic nerve pain and helps with pregnancy, hip, back and spine alignment.
    — Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 9 Sep. 2020
  • James began the year with a sciatic nerve injury that sidelined him for 14 games.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2026
  • That can cause inflammation, pain, or even pinching of that sciatic nerve.
    — Kelly O'Mara, Outside Online, 16 Apr. 2014
  • Staying active and using lumbar support can keep your sciatic nerve healthy in the long run.
    — Cristina Mutchler, Health, 4 Aug. 2024
  • Back pain is a typical symptom, but the pain can spread all the way down the legs and to the feet if one of the sciatic nerves is involved.
    — Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Your sciatic nerve provides sensations in your legs and controls muscles in your calf.
    — Lindsay Curtis, Health, 7 July 2024
  • The team also used this approach to block pain in the sciatic nerve in one leg of a rat using a local anesthetic.
    — Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Each sciatic nerve runs bilaterally from the base of your spine through the deep muscles of your buttocks and down the back of a leg.
    — Dana Santas, CNN, 19 Aug. 2022
  • Sciatica can cause back and leg pain and is due to compression on nerve roots or on the sciatic nerve which runs from the lower spine down the thigh.
    — Fox News, 1 Jan. 2021
  • Yoga poses that stretch and strengthen the muscles that support the spine can help relieve some of the pressure on the sciatic nerve.
    — Cory Martin, Verywell Health, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Instead of a seat designed to waterboard your sciatic nerve, a reclining sleep pod and your own armrests.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 30 June 2019
  • Sciatica is a general term for pain caused by an impingement along the sciatic nerve.
    — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 1 Aug. 2023
  • For instance, most people who suffer from sciatic nerve pain will complain about a sharp and intense pain that starts from the lower back and goes down to their feet.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Sciatica is a painful condition that radiates from the sciatic nerve, which is the largest nerve in the human body.
    — Ebony Williams, ajc, 23 Jan. 2023
  • The lawsuit alleges that the doctor injected too much fat into her gluteal muscles, which put pressure on her sciatic nerve.
    — Joy Johnston, ajc, 18 Nov. 2017
  • Researchers anchored one end of their fiber to the mice’s skulls, threaded it underneath the skin, and wrapped a cuff at the other end around the sciatic nerve in the leg.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Nov. 2023
  • The first bullet damaged his small intestine and bladder, and the second one entered his buttocks and lodged near a sciatic nerve, his lawyers say.
    — CBS News, 28 Apr. 2020
  • Delos Santos had planned to be at the parade with his church but stayed home because of sciatic nerve pain that makes walking difficult.
    — Brittany Shammas, Washington Post, 9 July 2022
  • Since the sciatic nerve flows in the same direction as these muscle groups, stretches that target the hamstrings and calves will hit the sciatic nerve as well.
    — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 25 Feb. 2022
  • Other symptoms include numbness or tingling in any area where the sciatic nerve is located as well as an overall sense of weakness in both legs.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 16 Dec. 2022
  • About the width of a thumb, your sciatic nerve starts in the lower part of the spinal canal and then splits to run down through your pelvic area, each buttock and thigh, and along each leg to your feet and toes.
    — Laura Riley, Parents, 2 Sep. 2023

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