The strong pain that makes the singer Adele “walk like a duck”

Elton GardnerJanuary 10, 2023

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It has not been an easy year for the singer Adele. If in December the Londoner announced to her fans that she was prioritizing her mental health and that she had returned to therapy, days later she opened up to her followers about another health problem that, according to her, has affected the ability of her to move on stage.

While the singer of easy on me was performing in Las Vegas, viewers could see how he limped. Adele had to confess that she suffered from chronic back pain and sciatica: “I have to walk like a duck these days because I have a very strong sciatica», Said the 34-year-old artist.

what is sciatica

Sciatica represents a set of symptoms resulting from the compression of part or all of the sciatic nerve. It causes pain that radiates along the path of the nerve that branches from the lower back through the hips and buttocks and down each leg. It usually affects only one side of the body.

Two out of every 100 people suffer from sciatica and it is estimated that up to 80% of the population have it or will have it at some point in their lives.

According to the Spanish Society of Internal Medicine (SEMI), sometimes they are the result of a trauma or hit in the area. Other times it exists loss of bone mass from the bone of the vertebrae, osteoporosis, which causes them to lose height and the intervertebral discs to herniate. Rarer is that the vertebrae are damaged by the existence of a metastatic tumor and injure them. It is also very rare that a neural tumor, arising in local fibers, can injure the nerves.