My mother is suffering from this pain for the last 6 days. At local hospital they've taken x-rays, saying no fracture. Well, I knew that! next stop was our golden handed chiroprator. He worked on mum for 20 minutes, the pain has eased. In two days should be much better. I was even thinking, maybe she has kidney stones, as pain is around waist, hip, thighs down to knee and travelled to groin. I have all the trust in our chiropractor, she is better within last 24 hours. Hopefully she has no kidney stones, will have ultrasound on Monday. Dont know if acupuncture would help, never had it done.