06/18/2026
Pain in your leg, but the real problem is in your back?
It happens more often than you'd think.
When a disc in your spine herniates, meaning it bulges or ruptures, it can press against nearby nerves.
Those nerves travel down into your legs, so the pain, numbness, or tingling you feel in your thigh, calf, or foot often starts much higher up, at the spine.
This is why treating just the leg rarely works. The relief has to start where the problem actually is.
At Kentuckiana Pain Specialists, Dr. Nair pinpoints whether a disc is behind your leg pain and builds a personalized, opioid-free plan, from targeted injections to advanced options, to address it at the source.