Piriformis syndrome is a generic diagnosis for pain in the literal butt, about where your back pocket would be. It’s so generic that the name has been changed to ….
Deep gluteal syndrome, which is even more generic sounding.
I’ll discuss more on that later. I’ll cover the exercises I like to treat this condition, and later on i’ll discuss what it is and how to determine if you actually have it.
For deep gluteal syndrome syndrome, we are specifically talking about (mostly) hip internal rotation.
4 Exercises we like for hip mobility
1. Quadruped rock back
2. Reverse Clamshell
3. Seated Hip Flexion Isometric
4. Prone Hip Internal Rotation
here’s some videos on how to do it