What are effective treatments for sciatica?

Sciatica: Rest, finding the position of comfort that gives you the least amount of pain, eventually stretching exercises to take the pressure off of the nerve, leading to strengthening exercises to reduce recurrence. Good body mechanics and core muscle building. Mild pain meds like ibuprofen.

See below: If the conservative care suggested in the initial answer does not work you may consider evaluation by a pain specialist and an epidural steroid injection.

Spine Pain Options: This chronic pain in the distribution as you suggested is the result of an irritated nerve or facet joints or other injury typically in the lumbar spine (low back) which are caused by herniated disks, spinal stenosis or degenerative disc disease, etc requiring further evaluation by a spine specialist and may be candidate for facet injections/radiofrequency ablation and epidural steroid injection.