Your Sacroiliac Joint

So, a couple of weeks ago, we talked about the two most common causes of chronic hip pain, and it’s not osteoarthritis. They are gluteal tendinopathy. And now we’re going to talk about sacroiliac dysfunction and what kind of treatments you can do for it….

But first, do you know where your Sacroiliac Joint is?…

The sacroiliac joints link your pelvis and lower spine. They’re made up of the sacrum — the bony structure above your tailbone and below your lower vertebrae — and the top part (ilium) of your pelvis. There are sacroiliac joints in both the right and left sides of your lower back.

For a lot of people, when they say “I got hip pain”, they’re referencing what we know generally as the hip, but that may be the sacroiliac joint. However, the sacroiliac joint and the hip are actually very intimately related because if you look at the whole pelvis, this is a ring that the spine sits on. And then all of that stress is redistributed to the hips. So, if you’ve got dysfunction in the sacroiliac joint, it’s inevitably gonna translate to dysfunction within the hip and even the knee over time.

One of the things that we like to tell people is that for SI dysfunction, you’ve got to have good exercise.

That’s one of the top things for the human body to make yourself resilient, strong, and to make sure things are held together a little bit better. And you’d be working all these muscles of the hips, some of these abdominal muscles, your rear end, all that good stuff in there, and that can help it so that the joints moving better. However, that’s not always the best thing because there can be something left out.

Generally speaking, this is a ring that needs very strong stability. Foundation. A lot of people who have sacroiliac pain, it’s often labeled as arthritis or an arthropathy or arthropathy means a problem with the joint.

But it’s rarely a problem with the joint!

The joint itself is not that dynamic to develop arthritic issues. However, there is a complex of ligaments that hold this thing in place. And as we age, just as how our skin develops wrinkles, our ligaments can develop wrinkles too. And that introduces just a little bit of giving in that sacroiliac joint.

Say you drive a car…if you’re in a car and your tires are not aligned, what would you do to compensate for that?…

Your sacroiliac joint compensates for the misalignment when you develop patterns of wear on your muscles. It uses your hip as a leverage point to pinch your joints together. 

What does exercise do? 

It strengthens your muscles so that you have a greater degree of ability to compensate and strengthen the ligaments….there aren’t great solutions for that with conventional approaches. However, we are proud to say we do at Wellward. We do the most thorough physical exams possible because if these ligaments around the SI joint have a problem, it can cause a problem to all other surrounding joints. In our physical exams we figure out where that pain’s coming from. Then we know where to put that injection. 

Using ultrasound and X-rays, are able to identify the discrete spots we put them, as we understand which of these ligaments has lost its integrity and it’s causing that little bit of wiggle to take place.

Once we have that down, then we can introduce a lot of therapies that have that longer-lasting effect like Orthobiologics and PRP and even bone marrow-derived products that will have a very high potency of repairing tissue.

Healthcare doesn’t do a great job of resolving some of these pain issues. They just kind of mask it and put a bandaid on it. Our goal is to actually educate people so that they know the difference between a masking problem and actually fixing an issue!

YOU don’t have to put up with that hip pain!

If you have any questions about this, or if you’re dealing with sacroiliac pain, please message us and ask us any kind of question.

You can learn about all this stuff you need and how PRP, prolotherapy, all that stuff works to tighten this up much, much better than the stuff you’d get elsewhere! 

If you have any questions about this, or if you’re dealing with sacroiliac pain, please message us and ask us any kind of question.

Also, contact us at Wellward Regenerative Medicine for a free discovery call. We’d love to hear from you soon!

DISCLAIMER:  The information in this email is not intended nor implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. All content is for general informational purposes only and does not replace a consultation with your own doctor/health professional