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If you have dealt with knee pain for some time, you may have thought your options were relegated to narcotic medication for pain relief. This may not necessarily be the case.

It is no secret in our profession that many patients with chronic pain have concomitant mental health issues, including anxiety, depression, and PTSD. There exists an overlap amongst the mental, physical, emotional, social, and spiritual elements of patients’ overall wellbeing.

A 52-year-old female presented with a 15-year history of neck pain associated with headaches. She reported that this all started with a motor vehicle accident 17 years prior and remembered having neck pain immediately after the accident; however, the pain gradually increased until the headaches started.

. When the sciatic nerve intersects the muscle, it is almost unavoidable that simple piriformis muscle contractions will irritate the sciatic nerve and induce piriformis syndrome.

If not treated expeditiously, pain could persist for weeks, months, or even years thereafter.