I'd endorse trying a massage treatment.
I've had a back problem since I was about 20. I was working on a golf course and we'd gone out with the tractor and a high flat bed trailer to collect the bench seats from around the course to bring them in to repaint. They were sort of a heavy concrete base with wood slat seat. I was riding on the trailer with about five of them stacked on board. Tractor and trailer rounds a bend too fast and the seats start to tumble. I grabbed hold of the nearest one and tried to stop them going over the side....Dumb Dumb Dumb! Of course, I couldn't and ended up going with them.
Compressed 4th and 5th vertibrea was the result. Apart from the initial 2 weeks off work, it didn't effect me that much until I was a bit older when the misalignment and compression began regularly pinching the sciatic nerve. Years of greens keeping work contributed too, of course.
Anyway, The worst bout of sciatica happened about 12 years ago. within the space of a few hours I went from fit and able to barely being able to walk.....or sit....or lie down for more than a few minutes at a time. I went to the doc and started on anti inflammatory pills with no effect, went to chiropractor.....no joy there either. After being off work for 6 weeks, the doc said there was nothing left to try short of surgery....or that I'd just have to stop working and live with it....... "Stuff that" I thought!......of words to that effect
A friend suggested I try acupuncture and recommended a Chinese Medicine clinic nearby. I went along and the practitioner said the acupuncture could help with the pain short term but would not fix the cause.....but that he thought he could move the vertibrea away from the nerve with massage.
He massaged for relaxation and pain relief for about half an hour until I was all loose like a big fat goose....and then he started working really forcefully along my spine. After a few minute I actually felt the vertibrea move upward. Afterward he said I'd be quite sore and stiff for about 12 hours but that the pain would fade and in about 48 hours I'd be pain free. He was right! I was back at work 2 days later
These days I still have occasional problems but nothing crippling and whenever I feel a twinge in the back or down the rump and leg, I get myself to this bloke and so far it's always done the trick
Obviously the success of this sort of treatment will depend on what the source of the problem is....but in my case it's been brilliant.