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## Context Piriformis syndrome is a solely clinical diagnosis that often eludes the practitioner and goes underdiagnosed. PS is a pain syndrome and for those it affects, causes persistent pain and limits daily activity and work capacity. It is a form of deep gluteal syndrome that needs to be considered on the differential of low back pain as it comprises between 0.3% - 6% of all low back pain cases and is frequently underdiagnosed. Piriformis syndrome may be primary due anatomic anomalies or secondary, though the majority of cases are secondary to some insult. The objective of this manuscript is to provide a description of the epidemiology and presentation of piriformis as well as both non-operative and operative treatment options. We review all of the recent clinical evidence regarding the aforementioned therapies. ## Evidence Acquisition Literature searches were performed using the below MeSH Terms using Mendeley version 1.19.4. Search fields were varied until further searches revealed no new articles. All articles were screened by title and abstract. Decision was made to include an article based on its relevance and the list of final articles was approved three of the authors. T
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- Author
- Neeraj Vij; Hayley Kiernan; Roy Bisht; Ian Singleton; Elyse M. Cornett; Alan David Kaye; Farnad Imani; Giustino Varrassi; Maryam Pourbahri; Omar Viswanath; Ivan Urits
- Publisher
- Briefland
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)