Back pain is not amusing, regardless of how you slept in an unusual position or had a bad posture while working ... travelling between your hips and the backs of your thighs towards your knees.

It’s called piriformis syndrome, and the 66-year-old said on The Drew Barrymore Show on January 23 that the pain the condition caused was so bad, she thought she would need to get a hip replacement.

Sciatica—a radiating pain along the longest nerve in the body—is a health hurdle that many face, yet few fully understand.