title: Practice of yoga may cause damage of both sciatic nerves: a case report.
abstract: Sciatic nerve traumatic damage very rarely occurs bilaterally. We describe the case of a 67-year-old woman who reported a bilateral traumatic lesion of the sciatic nerve during practice of yoga. Nerve conduction studies showed a bilateral sciatic nerve neuropathy, mostly affecting the peroneal component. Lumbar plexus MRI documented regular anatomical features of the main principal nerve roots with bilateral T2 signal alteration of roots L4, L5 and S1 that extended into the sciatic nerves showing both increase in size, probably related to chronic injury of nerves, and an alteration in diffusion signal that suggested a recent acute overlapped process.
authors.forename: Patrizia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Dacci
authors.forename: Stefano
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Amadio
authors.forename: Simonetta
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gerevini
authors.forename: Lucia
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Moiola
authors.forename: Ubaldo
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Del Carro
authors.forename: Marta
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Radaelli
authors.forename: Gianluca
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Figlia
authors.forename: Vittorio
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Martinelli
authors.forename: Giancarlo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Comi
authors.forename: Raffaella
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Fazio
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D004576:Electromyography; D026241:Exercise Movement Techniques / Q000009:adverse effects*; D005260:Female; D006615:Hip / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D020426:Sciatic Neuropathy / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D015013:Yoga