you got a little relief.

A few random comments.

1. Are you absolutely sure you don't just have sciatica? It sure sounds that way from your sx.

2. The working-out-of-scars-through-massage is very real. I've had them in a couple of places. They're called adhesions, as you know, and if they are not very old or very enormous they can be broken up and reabsorbed by massage.

3. Whatever you have, therapies like massage and PT are proven effective in compression neuropathies like sciatica. Sometimes it's a tight piriformis muscle squeezing the nerve, sometimes its tight connective tissue, or something else, but in many cases the whole thing can be stretched, gently exercised or massaged away.