Bruce Morris
Social climber
Belmont, California
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Aug 21, 2014 - 11:03am PT
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"Deep in the buttock there is a muscle, the pyriformis, which is in close proximity to the sciatic nerve as it passes through the greater sciatic notch on its way into the leg. I do not know where or when the diagnosis was first proposed, but it was theorized that buttock pain was the result of compression of the sciatic nerve by the pyriformis muscle. It has not been scientifically explained why this happens or under what circumstances. In my view the diagnosis is without substance and has only been proposed in the absence of a better explanation for buttock pain . . . . The diagnosis of pyriformis syndrome is a fad that appears to be fading away."
Dr. John E. Sarno, Professor of Clinical Rehabilitation Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, and attending physician at the Howard A. Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation, New York University Medical Center.
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