01 Nerve-pattern history
You map where pain, numbness, or tingling travels and discuss onset, triggers, duration, prior episodes, and any change in strength or walking.
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From your back to your leg
CONCEPTUAL VIEW · 01 / 03
Trace your symptom story
Tell your specialist whether back discomfort accompanies your leg symptoms.
Explore your first visitCare that fits your schedule
- Available 8AM–8PM, seven days a week
- Same-day to same-week appointments often available
- Same-day callbacks from our scheduling team
- No referral needed to request an appointment
- PPO insurance plans accepted (PPO only) — check your coverage
When to see a specialist
See a specialist when radiating leg symptoms persist, recur, or are accompanied by sensory change, weakness, or a meaningful loss of function.
- Pain running from the back or buttock into the thigh, calf, or foot
- Numbness, tingling, burning, or electric sensations in one leg
- Pain that worsens with sitting, coughing, bending, standing, or walking
- Weakness when lifting the foot, pushing off, climbing stairs, or rising
- Symptoms that have not improved with reasonable activity changes
- A disc or stenosis finding on MRI that needs clinical interpretation
Interactive 3D · Vertebra
Drag to rotate · Thoracic vertebra (T-10)
Nerve roots exit through openings beside vertebrae like this one — often where sciatica begins its path down the leg.
Conceptual anatomy model, not your imaging or a diagnosis.
What happens at your first appointment
The visit is structured to identify the affected nerve pattern, determine whether imaging agrees, and choose the least invasive reasonable next step.
02 Neurological examination
Strength, reflexes, sensation, gait, and nerve-tension maneuvers help localize which nerve root may be irritated.
03 Imaging comparison
MRI or other available studies are reviewed to see whether the side and level of compression match the examination.
04 Treatment decision
Your doctor explains whether monitoring, pain management, a targeted injection, decompression, or microdiscectomy is reasonable and what would change that plan.
Your specialists
Your treatment pathway
Non-surgical care
- Activity modification while avoiding prolonged inactivity
- Medication and pain-management review
- Image-guided epidural or selective nerve-root injection
- Monitoring of stable sensory symptoms and strength
Surgical care
- Microdiscectomy for a matching herniated disc
- Lumbar decompression for stenosis affecting the nerve
- Fusion only when instability or another structural problem also requires stabilization
Where we treat this
Our clinic pages list local contact details and office hours. Mountain Spine & Orthopedics is available 8AM–8PM, seven days a week.
Florida · 10 offices
New Jersey · 7 offices
New York · 1 office
Pennsylvania · 4 offices
Frequently asked questions about Sciatica
No referral is needed to request an appointment. Some health plans may have their own referral requirements, so our scheduling team can help you identify what to confirm before your visit.