Joyce, and others... Oh my gosh... This is just horribly ridiculous. I can't imagine you're going through all that. It makes my head spin. First... this...
The piriformis muscle does do more than just protect the nerve. It is important to the movement & stability of the pelvis and your ability to turn our leg...
Hi all; About a week ago, I received a message about updates to a Piriformis Syndrome group. That's funny, I thought, I don't remember signing up with any PS...
PLEASE take our survey if you have been diagnosed with & treated for Piriformis Syndrome. Too often, PS patients go from one treatment to another with little...
Jerry, Thank you for your input. After completing a round of unsuccessful PT myself, I've been a little (okay, a lot!) negative about the whole thing, but...
I haven't but if that is the side effect, I would be looking for other things. I am taking Neurontin, Naprolan and Darvocet. I have to adjust the Darvocet...
Thank you Jerry for sharing your story and tips with us. It is great to hear a PT success story, once in a while. Unfortunately, many people don't get the help...
Jo: What does this Dr. Filler do? Does he remove the piriformis muscle? Although I would love to be able to sit again, the thought of going under the knife and...
Bendered - It is good to hear from you. Yeah, Driving is a problem if you are taking lots of drugs. Neurontin is well known for side effects of memory loss,...
Rkeller - Dr. Filler does the new, micro Piriformis surgery. It creates a much smaller incision than the older, traditional piriformis release surgery....
Dear All, I have bought a portable ultrasound from the internet and I do not need any gentle or deep tissue massage anymore. I recommend you to get your own...
I agree. There are good PTs and bad PTs. Even the good ones don't have all the answers. I ended up gleaning information from several of the better PTs. Even...
Hi Ken Sounds as though our symptoms are very similar only that I’ve undergone fusion of L5/S1 – just to complicate things. See Dr Filler’s report about...
We need a lot of PS patients to take the survey. The bigger the sample size is, the better the data. So I need your help in getting out the word about the ...
Hi Mary, There a lots of people out there with symptoms that would make them perceive they have PS but do not. We all know many doctors put sciatic pain into...
james - That is why I'm asking only people who have been diagnosed by a doctor or PT to take the survey. No self-diagnosis, please! You raise a valid and...
Thank you Mary for taking the time to collect all the data. As a person diagnosed with PS. This was confirmed when I had surgery a little over 3 years ago. I...
"If anyone can help me understand the various procedures, by the way, that are mentioned on here in your emails...and how they relate to the 1.2.3 list...
Thanks Mary, and Eve - now I'm gettin' somewhere :) "Eve Walton (evwalton)" <> wrote: Hi - I will be speaking to Dr. Filler on Dec 19 to talk to him...
I can see there's a problem with this link. If you go into Google and do a search: 'piriformis release, running' Then the page should come up. There are 2...
Hi to all, Elliott only posted a couple of times after his surgery, but if you keep scrolling on down, I've written quite a bit about my surgery and experience...
Hi Donna Yeap, it'd be nice to know what happened to Elliott....... Spent most of the afternoon getting sore on my butt reading the posts on the running forum....
Thank you Donna for describing your surgery in detail. Her surgery is another type of piriformis surgery. They estimate about 15% of population has the ...
Hi - Has anyone tried this prop and liked it? http://www.sacrowedgy.com I see it listed in the files section of the website and am curious to know if it's...
Hi Again - I'm wondering if any other PS suffers out there also have a sacralized L5 transverse process on one or both sides. Mine is sacralized on the same...
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