You might also try trigger point therapy in the low back & hip area. For what it's worth, I had a painful lower back for ~1 year, and one day I massaged the pso

You might also try trigger point therapy in the low back & hip area. For what it's worth, I had a painful lower back for ~1 year, and one day I massaged the psoas muscle trigger points, and my back pain _disappeared_. I've been an evangelist for trigger point therapy since.