Sciatica
(asked on 12th January 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many diagnoses of sciatica were made in each of the last five years.
This question was answered on 19th January 2015
This information is not collected. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) 2009 guideline ‘Low back pain: Early management of persistent non-specific low back pain’ is currently being updated to include sciatica. NICE estimates that the lifetime incidence range of sciatica is 13 to 40% and annual incidence of an episode of sciatica ranges from 1 to 5%. The updated guidance is expected for publication in 2016.