About a month ago, I started to get an achy back. At first it wasn’t a big deal; my back regularly tells me when I’ve spent too long on my feet or overdone it with weights. It usually calms down in a day and doesn’t demand any more attention than a light stretch or two.
However, this achy back incident was different. It didn’t go away, and after a day or so the pain began to radiate down my right leg. As an acupuncturist, I know that what I was experiencing was sciatic pain; some kind of inflammation or compression of my sciatic nerve. The pain was typical of sciatica; deep, dull, and achy.
