I’ll be honest—when my lower back and leg pain started flaring up, I assumed it was just sciatica again. I mean, isn’t that what everyone says when shooting pain hits your leg? But after months of frustration, countless stretches, and painkillers doing nothing, I learned it wasn’t sciatica at all—it was piriformis syndrome. What surprised…
Back pain has been my annoying sidekick for over a decade—especially after sitting through long editing sessions and those ridiculously cramped flights. But here’s the thing: I always lumped all the discomfort under “back pain” until a few years ago, when I found out that what I was dealing with was actually sciatica. Yeah, there’s…
Middle back pain has this frustrating way of sneaking up on you when you least expect it. I remember once, after a long weekend of rearranging furniture and pretending I knew what I was doing with DIY, I woke up to a stiff, nagging pain right between my shoulder blades. Not upper, not lower—right in…