Feeling like back to square one after 4 weeks of PT
I've been dealing with piriformis syndrome pain since the beginning of June. I started PT about 4 weeks ago, and I really thought that it was getting better. However, this morning I woke up and I could tell it was going to be a bad day. I could feel the muscle cramping before I even got out of bed. I had worked up to sitting in my office chair for about 20-30 minutes at a time without pain, although I have a standing desk converter so I do usually work standing up. However, today I can't even manage more than 5 minutes without pain radiating down my leg. It feels like the origin of the pain has shifted a bit - it used to be that when I did the 'cow' part of the cat-cow stretch something caught in my buttock. Now, that movement is fine but it's closer to the outside of my hip, but it still causes that same feeling like the entire outside of my leg is being wrung out while I'm sitting.
Is this just a 'two steps forward, one step back', 'healing isn't linear' situation? Or should I be concerned that we're all the way back at square one?