You have touched on ideas for a physical assessment.
First you need to do a full neuro to assess pain referral. You also need to test lumbar spine, hip and knee joints and let us know what you find.
You need to ask about aggravating/provoking positions or activities. We need more history about this issue. You are a regular poster but now I am trying to get everyone to be a lot more complete with their questions and surrounding history. For all we know the problem might be that a knife is sticking out of the back of her thigh! Excuse the sarcasm