I am rather obsessive when it comes to exercise and usually go overboard on my days off...I need the intense movement to reduce (?) the inflammation and get my body to function without pain for a few hours...
I find that using the Pilates balls helps immensely...I roll around, stretch out the lower back, work my abs to help support my back and hips and crack back in whatever seems to have popped out over the previous days...it can give me up to 2-3 days of relief....worth the pain while I am doing it.
Hot water helps a lot too, on really bad days, I use both a very hot bath (no jacuzzi in my house) and the cherry-pit filled heating pad under my spine to get some relief...you find whatever works for you and go with it.
Yes, I think that a lot of us suffer from extreme inflammation...it seems to go hand in hand with whatever it is that we have got...in my case probably undiagnosed UC but in those days they called it a spastic colon, IBD, IBS or chronic, bleeding gastroenteritis (at least that was what they told me).
I am grateful to no longer have my colon but I wonder if removing it just displaced the inflammation to other places.
Sharon