{"id":421,"date":"2011-10-22T11:13:35","date_gmt":"2011-10-22T11:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/derbyshiresportsmassage.co.uk\/?page_id=421"},"modified":"2025-07-21T17:29:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T17:29:48","slug":"piriformis-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/derbyshiresportsmassage.co.uk\/?page_id=421","title":{"rendered":"Piriformis Syndrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/derbyshiresportsmassage.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Sciatic-nerve.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-744\" src=\"http:\/\/derbyshiresportsmassage.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Sciatic-nerve-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Sciatic-nerve\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Prevention is key<\/span> <\/strong><\/span>Sports massage\u00a0can play an important\u00a0role in the life of everyone, whether they are injured or not<strong>. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Sports Massage\u00a0is for everyone. For injury. For pampering. For deep relaxation<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">What is Piriformis Syndrome?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">piriformis muscle\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>is one of the small muscles deep in the buttocks that rotates the leg outwards. It runs from the base of the spine (<strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">sacrum<\/span><\/strong>) and attaches to the thigh bone (<strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">femur<\/span><\/strong>) roughly where the outside crease in your bum is.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Symptoms of piriformis syndrome:<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Tenderness in the area of the muscle.<\/li>\n<li>Pain in the buttocks.<\/li>\n<li>Pain which radiates down the back of the leg, usually into the hamstrings and sometimes even the calf muscles.<\/li>\n<li>It is common for pain to initially be confused with a <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">hamstring strain\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>or <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">hamstring origin tendinopathy<\/span><\/strong>. However there will be no area in the hamstrings which is tender to touch.<\/li>\n<li>Reduced range of motion of the hip joint, especially into internal hip rotation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prevention is key Sports massage\u00a0can play an important\u00a0role in the life of everyone, whether they are injured or not. Sports Massage\u00a0is for everyone. For injury. For pampering. For deep relaxation. What is Piriformis Syndrome? The piriformis muscle\u00a0is one of the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/derbyshiresportsmassage.co.uk\/?page_id=421\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":418,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-421","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/derbyshiresportsmassage.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/derbyshiresportsmassage.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/derbyshiresportsmassage.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/derbyshiresportsmassage.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/derbyshiresportsmassage.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/derbyshiresportsmassage.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":902,"href":"http:\/\/derbyshiresportsmassage.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/421\/revisions\/902"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/derbyshiresportsmassage.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/derbyshiresportsmassage.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}