As a physical therapist, I often evaluate and treat patients with a “pinched nerve.” These people usually have low back pain and are starting to feel pain in the buttock, thigh, or lower leg, which is the typical onset of sciatica. Often times, the patient has been to their family doctor and has been prescribed anti-inflammatory or analgesic medication to treat the “pinched nerve.” When these medications fail to work to decrease or abolish the patient’s pain, he or she usuall