I've had back problems since I was a teenager, I'm now 33. It would always be the occasional slipped disc here and there, after a week or two of rest the problem would go away. When I was 27 my back went out and once again it healed a couple weeks later, but at the same time, I noticed that my hip started to hurt, I also noticed that my back started to be more crooked. It kept getting worse and worse until the point where I could barely walk, laying down helped. After about 4 months it seemed to clear up and go away. Now as of last year I started having a tight feeling in my right buttox muscle when I walked, the more I walked the worse it got...it got really tight and eventually hurt so bad that the pain was unbearable. That's when my back started to curve again. I went through most of 2008 in pain, up until August where it the hip pain was becoming worse and worse, then all of sudden over night I was in agony. I woke the next day and could barely move. I went to doctors and chiropractor. the doctor gave me pain pills and steroids for the inflammation. That really didn't do anything for me, the chiropractor put me on spinal decompression, but that seemed to make it worse. I don't have insurance, so MRI's and all that are out of the question. I'm still in pain and here it is, April 2009, it's not as bad as when it first started, but my hip is really hurting, I also notice that it pops when I move it. Almost feels like it's dislocated. Could it be out of socket or could it be that the socket is worn out?