Asian Pain Academy

Buttock pain is a common yet diagnostically challenging complaint encountered in pain clinics, spine practices, and rehabilitation settings. While sacroiliac joint dysfunction, lumbar radiculopathy, piriformis syndrome, and facetogenic pain are frequently considered, cluneal nerve entrapment remains an under-recognized cause of chronic buttock and low back pain. Failure to identify cluneal neuralgia can lead to prolonged suffering, unnecessary imaging, failed spine interventi