All of these components have to be addressed to resolve SI Joint pain and dysfunction. By the entire system I mean the brain, muscles, nerves, ligament stability, and movement. The reason these things don’t work is that they’ve failed to consider the entire movement system. Various pain medication is just a temporary bandaid and affects your daily life and mental clarity. You might have heard of prolotherapy which can help with stability, but cannot fix your movements. Chiropractic will give you some relief from your compressed joints, but your muscles will still be programmed to return you to the same issue. It’s kind of like baking a cake with only flour and milk, you’re missing a lot of key ingredients! Massage will get your muscle tension to go down for a while, but it will come back. To put it simply, most treatments for SI Joint pain and dysfunction only consider one piece of the puzzle. Have you already tried massage, chiropractic, injections, exercises, or meds, with little to no lasting results? The good news is you already know what doesn’t work. If you’ve had treatment for pain in any of these areas and it keeps coming back, it’s likely the treatment strategy was incomplete. If you’re someone who’s had multiple issues in the any of the above areas, chances are that you have SI Joint dysfunction. This leads patients and practitioners alike throwing up their hands in confusion after they’re exhausted from chasing the pain.

So over the years issues “move around,” or the pain keeps coming back.

Often, treatment focuses on wherever the pain may be, instead of fixing the SIJ dysfunction. It often manifests as hip, low back, knee or groin pain, sciatica, and even pelvic floor pain. The reason for this is that it’s not always JUST pain that you get in the SI Joint. SI Joint pain and dysfunction may easily be one of the most under-diagnosed and poorly treated physical ailments.

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