The Rev Dodgson said:

Divine Angel said:

Michael V said:

Yes, yes, yes. Thanks very much.

:)

If that doesn’t work, try a tennis ball against the wall, or teach Mrs V to trigger point your butt.

https://youtube.com/shorts/soesVr6r270?si=D72QSH85_Hss1CHy Has the gist of it, but I get Mr Mutant to use his elbow because a thumb won’t get deep enough. And instead of Mrs V rotating the hip as shown, put your foot on the back of opposite knee to rotate your hip.

Let’s say you’re working on your right glutes. You’re face down on the bed. Mrs V uses her elbow to get the sore spots. Then, you put your right foot on the back of your left knee which rotates the hip and Mrs V will find some really sore spots that way.

I probably shouldn’t go on about this, but it works for me:

The Feldenkrais Method

I did this and it really helped me out of a pain spiral. I have to go back.

My sciatic nerve is, as ruby said: “bad sciatic nerve”.