A little over a year ago I hurt my back while working under a hood of a car.  Had shooting pain in my lower back and the next few days I was hurting in my right buttocks and down the right thigh.  No numbness or tingling.  Early this year I went to a physical therapist who thought that I might have strained an inner muscle in the glute. After a few massage sessions the pain and lower back problem I was having disappeared.