Valium is an excellent muscle relaxant and is underused for this purpose. Ask your doctor.
I was miraculously cured, suddenly, on the Saturday before Easter in 2013. This is what happened:
The pain was getting worse and I was losing my ability to walk from my bed to the bathroom without severe pain. I was praying about finding medical intervention because it appeared that God was not going to just take the pain away. I was accepting my condition (two ruptured discs). I was also praying about ways I could serve God while being bed-ridden.
As I was researching doctors in Jakarta, Australia, Singapore, and the Philippines, I came across a posting here on Free Republic about this book by Dr. John Sarno Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection. I felt a strong prompting to order it and see what it was about.
As I read through it, I read Dr. Sarno's suggestions and truly thought it was a bunch of hokum. I prayed some more. In a prompting as strong as if an audible voice was speaking, I was told that I had not even tried those suggestions yet.
I was told to get up off my bed and walk. I did.
I have been pain free ever since.
I do not know if God just suddenly healed me apart from the book, or if He healed me through the suggestions of Dr. John Sarno. All I can say is that I give God the glory and I was told to tell you about this. I hope it helps.
Respectfully DISAGREE re Valium as a muscle relaxant. I had a bad bout with sciatica years ago and my stupid docs put me on 30 mg a day!! I was completely nonfunctional. I’d read a book and literally not remember a thing about it. There are other very effective muscle relaxants that won’t make you loopy! ;)