After dealing with nagging lower back pain for years, I stumbled on something that surprisingly helped — a peanut ball. Yeah, sounds like a weird fitness gadget, but trust me, it turned out to be a game-changer for my piriformis muscle. If you’ve ever felt that deep ache in your glutes that creeps down into…
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…
I still remember the first time I experienced that deep, nagging pain right in the middle of my butt cheek. At first, I thought it was just a pulled muscle from a workout or maybe I had been sitting too long in a weird position. But when the pain started radiating down the back of…