What is the difference between tight hip flexors and sciatica?

With sciatica, the pain pattern is generally from the back (gluteals) that radiates down to the back of the knee and sometimes lower. Tight hip flexors will present as limitation of motion in one area, but do not have pain that “shoots down” to the lower parts of the leg. The pain pattern if present will be localized to one area.

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