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Mechanism of pain caused by the nerve-root tension test in patients with sciatica
A V Xavier1, J McDanal, I Kissin
1Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine, University of Alabama, Birmingham 35294.
Neurology
|April 1, 1989
Abstract:
We describe 2 instances where sciatic nerve block prevented pain in the sciatic nerve distribution caused by the nerve-root tension test in patients with radiculopathy. We hypothesize that antidromic activation of nociceptors from the injured root is a mechanism underlying sciatica.