In most Spanish speaking countries, this is just a slang term for âinsect.â In Puerto Rico, on the other hand, it means âdick.â You can imagine the giggles that follow someone saying âme pican los bichosâ (The bugs/dicks are biting me) in Puerto Rico.
1 Arthritis affecting leg joints can cause stabbing leg pain which is chronic in nature. 2  It is accompanied by inflammation and stiffness of the joint. 3  Baker's Cyst. 4  In this condition, the knee joint fluid gets accumulated at the back of the knee and pain can be felt at the back side of the leg.
But if symptoms are at any point intolerable, Bohinski adds, the patient should contact a spine care provider or a primary care physician.. Conditions most likely to be confused with sciatica are hip and knee pain, which can also cause sharp, stabbing pain to radiate into the leg.