Stretch and walk through the pain. Whatever you do, don’t stay in bed all day.
Also, my opinion of chiropractic is pretty low. While the adjustments may temporarily relieve the pain, in my experience, they did not cure the underlying problem, and as a result, I had recurring bouts with sciatica for twenty years until the underlying problem was corrected surgically. As the surgeon told me afterwards, “All the chiropractic adjustments in the world would not have removed the pieces of fractured disk that were pressing against the nerve.” He also suggested that the chiropractic adjustments may have contributed to the disk breaking apart.
I agree with you re: chiropractors. And definitely agree about the underlying cause. I got an MRI, saw the broken disc pieces, and skipped the cortisone shots (waste of time) and went for the surgery. Problem solved. Depends what the cause is, but for me, anything other than surgery was a waste of time. MRI=knowledge=power.