Sacroiliac pain can mimic other conditions, such as a lower back disc herniation or hip pain. Correct diagnosis is important to determine the source of pain. Physical therapy, Myotherapy, Remedial Massage and a targeted exercise program can help to manage and prevent the symptoms.

Sacroiliac (SI) joint pain can feel similar to hip bursitis, degenerative hip disease, herniated disc, or pinched nerves. SI dysfunction symptoms commonly include low back pain, often on one side, buttock pain, sometimes pain can radiate to the hips, groin, or legs.

• Sleep on your side, affected side up
• Avoid sleeping on your stomach
• Bend one of your legs up
• Moving the painful hip backward will help you to relax
• Placing a pillow under your upper arm and a contoured cervical pillow under your head will help to keep a natural alignment of your spine
• Find the right mattress that will reduce your pain

Myofascial Dry Needling (MDN) can be used for both pain decrease and function improvement of the sacroiliac joint and hip. Pain in the SIJ and hip area usually means there’s dysfunction of the SI joint, the lumbar facet joints, muscles around the SI joint, or a combination of these symptoms.

Dry Needling or Electro Needling can be applied to the muscles around SI joint to treat myofascial trigger points (sometimes referred to as muscle ‘knots’) to reduce pain and improve the normal muscle function. MDN can also be used to treat the nerves around SIJ, which helps with pain relief around the pelvis and the hips.

Our trained Myotherapists are using advanced Dry Needling techniques for sacroiliac joint pain treatment.

Sacroiliac joint (SIJ) naturally has very limited range of motion, however, if SI joint experiences too little or too much movement or becomes inflamed, the part of the sciatic nerve that runs in front of the SIJ can get irritated. In this case pain along the sciatic nerve is caused not by a compressed nerve root in the lumbar spine, as occurs with true sciatica, but by inflammation in the sacroiliac joint. You may experience sciatic pain in the glut or along the leg due to SI joint dysfunction.

Sacroiliac joint dysfunction is one of the most common sources of pain for pregnant women. Pain can be felt at the back of your pelvis, in the hips, or refer down the legs and can get worse when you sit with your legs crossed.

During pregnancy, a hormone Relaxin makes your muscles and ligaments to relax so that the pelvis could expand as the fetus grows. When the ligaments surrounding your joints get looser, it can lead to joint instability. Increased joint mobility makes the muscles around your pelvis to compensate by tightening, which can cause pain.

In most cases sacroiliac joint pain can be fixed by nonsurgical treatments, such as physical therapy, chiropractic or osteopathic manipulation, myotherapy or remedial massage. Myotherapists at Knead Massage can use the following techniques to help get rid of your SI joint pain:

• Joint manipulation
• Various soft tissue techniques
• Dry needling and electrotherapy
• Cold Laser Therapy to reduce inflammation and pain
• Stretching and strengthening exercises
• Taping