Anybody aware of an American Physical Therapist called Dean Volk?
He specialises in Sciatica and Piriformis Syndrome and for the last 10 years or so has been working on a unique technique to balance out the body by avoiding stretching the bad side.
The good side is stretched for 2 sets of 10-20 x 2 sets for various different areas of stretch and then compared to 1stretch on the bad side of each exercise. It’s a long patient process but the idea is that the bad side will improve mobility over time to balance that part of the body and reduce pain.
He claims that as a PT in his earlier career doing all the standard stretches he achieved less than 10% success but since the change to concentrating on the good side he is seeing upwards of 50% success.
It makes sense that digging into a damaged muscle/tissue is unlikely to do it any good.
In my experience with massage on the bad side, the relief is only very short term and the pain is back s normal as l the next day.
I have tried Physio, Chiro,Osteo, MRI Scans, Ultrasound Scans, Nerve Block Injections, CBD Oil, New Mattresses, Heat, Ice and Bowen Therapy all to no avail plus prescription medicine which helps a bit.