Case Summary  |  Lower back... really low in the back. Ok -- truth told it is a pain in the butt.

Seriously, everyone called it lower back pain and until my MRI showed clear they called it sciatica. Even my PT -- but come on let's face it the pain in really a tad lower than what I would call my back.

It took a long time to get professionals to understand though my lower lumbar was uncomfortable it was really the most severe in my right buttocks. It was actually deep inside - no amount of heat therapy was helpful.

Finally, after I explained the stretch that we found worked best they realized it wasn't lower lumber issues or even sciatica but that it was this muscle I didn't even know I had the piriformis.

No wonder sometimes the trips to the chiropractor worked. They moved my spine just enough to give this muscle some relief.

I found I can save myself a lot of cash and keep myself from sleeping on tennis ball and doing all the other KrAzY stuff I tried if I just sat in a chair and crossed my legs. OK it was almost that easy.

Really, by simply sitting in a hard straight back chair (sitting perfectly up right - NO slouching) and then placing the ankle of side that is experiencing the pain over the knee that is not. Next making sure I am back in the chair as far as I can be lifting the knee of the pained side toward my torso and holding that pose for a long as possible until I get to 30 seconds they repeat until I find the piriformis pain abating.

You can find tons of other exercises to do for this little know muscle I found none as easy or useful.

I hope this one works for you as well.