Word: sciatica
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...until there is nothing but pain. This is chronic pain, and its sufferers are legion: there are more than 36 million arthritics in the U.S.; there are 70 million with agonizing back pain; about 20 million who suffer from blinding migraines; millions more who are racked by diseases like sciatica and gout. Most feared of all, the pain associated with cancer afflicts some 800,000 Americans and 18 million people worldwide...
...oldest Radcliffe alumnae, Mary R. McCarthy '12, will not be able to march today because she has sciatica, Lydia Lake, coordinator of Radcliffe reunions, said yesterday...
...these ails, the quest for help may be as exasperating as the pain itself. Too often, each specialist who is consulted has a different explanation of what is wrong and, more vexing, a different way of setting it right. For example, some doctors still speak of lumbago and sciatica. But these are notoriously imprecise terms for generalized pain in the lower back or neighboring areas that may be the consequence of various difficulties. Says Murray Goldstein, deputy director of the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke: "All treatments are controversial, and the reason is an almost complete...