sacroiliac joint pain

pitmom

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Posted 12/10/2018 6:50 PM (GMT 0)

Hello all. I've been enduring low back pain for many years now. MRI showed bulging discs which led to getting facet joint injections, which helped the nerve pain and some of the chronic pain, but not all of it.

I came across SIJ dysfunction while trying to help another figure out what was causing their pain. While reading about it, I realized the doctors had me position my body the same way, apparently trying to rule it out on me, but I had no increased pain from the exam.

I decided to try the stretches recommended in the article I had read anyway...just to see what would happen. Well, I woke up the next day with NO PAIN!!! A miracle! Next evening, no stretches...morning pain that lasted all day again. Last night, stretched. This morning, no pain!

It occurs to me that I have been flexible all of my life. Ballet classes and gymnastics/tumbling for years. I'm guessing that the flexibility meant that what was supposed to bring on objective/subjective responses just didn't happen, not because I don't have this condition but simply because I am still rather flexible, even at 58 years old.

I will definitely be discussing this with my pain management doctor at my next visit. I don't recommend trying things first generally...it was a risk I was willing to take...for this one thing.

(Seashell)

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Posted 12/11/2018 4:09 PM (GMT 0)

Pitmom:
It sounds as though you are your own best diagnostician.

Sacro-iliac dysfunction is more common then people recognize as a root cause/origin of low back and/or hip joint pain.

Anyone with low back or hip joint pain should also be evaluated for sacro-iliac involvement. It is a sad reality that even orthopedists routinely neglect to include the sacrifice-iliac joint in assessing low back and hip pain.

The SI joint is an articulation between the lower sacrum (tail bone) and the upper pelvis (ilium).

Ileo-tibial band tightness is another source of low back and hip pain that is often not on the radar of evaluating physicians.

I am glad that the stretches that you found on-line have eased your discomfort. I believe that the body tells us what it needs. We just need to be astute to listen to our body and attentive to what it is telling us.

(FYI: The risk of causing harm with gentle sacro-iliac stretching would be low, as there are no nerve bundles or major blood/lymph vessels that would be impacted).
Karen

Chutz

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Posted 12/12/2018 4:11 AM (GMT 0)

Wonderful news! And I'm so glad you shared. It's not often enough that we share something good in relation to pain. Keep us posted on how it keeps going.

Warmly,
Chutz

Lynnwood

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Posted 12/12/2018 3:33 PM (GMT 0)

I am having some low back pain myself, and have had those stretches sitting on my desk for weeks. Too bad I don't just DO them! Thanks for the encouragement that they really will help!

Post Edited (Lynnwood) : 12/13/2018 12:19:51 PM (GMT-7)

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