re: OT Doctors: Lower back/buttock pain, Cluneal nerve pain/swelling.

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Also...beware of chiropractors. Not saying they don't have their place, but this certainly shouldn't be your first stop with lower back pain.

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Yeah, I hear ya, but they can be helpful.

I strained a muscle in my lower back (right side) lifting some heavy stuff at my house months ago. The next morning I could barely get out of bed. The pain was actually coming from my spine on the right side, so I went to a chiropractor that morning.

I told him what I did the previous day and where it hurt, radiating from my spine on my lower right side. He examined my lower back and said my muscle on my lower right side had a knot.

When I asked him why my spine was hurting and not my muscle, he explained that the muscle tightness on my right side was actually pulling on my spine and irritating the nerves on my spine. Makes perfect sense.

He massaged the knot out of the muscle, then cracked my lower back and the pain instantly was gone. Then all I had to deal with was soreness in the muscle.