The sacroiliac joint, SI joint, is located at the base of your spine. Three pelvic bones come together and make the joint: the sacrum (a large triangular bone that supports your spine) and two iliac bones on the right and left side.
The SI joints play a significant role in pelvic stability, mobility, gait, standing, and transferring weight distribution from your spinal column to your pelvis and legs. The sacrum is like a house’s foundation. If the foundation below the house is crooked, everything that sits on top of it will also be. If the sacrum is misaligned or the SI joints are compromised, it creates issues in everything it supports.
SI joint pain is very common anytime the SI joints are not aligned or don’t have a full range of motion. Misalignments or fixations, also known as subluxations, create poor biomechanics and stress on other areas of the pelvis and lower lumbar spine. This triggers lower back pain, pressure point pain at the SI joint, hip discomfort, and pain that radiates down the legs. SI joint pain is often mistaken for sciatica.
The conventional medical treatment for SI joint pain is painkillers and cortisone injections. This approach simply masks your pain and inflammation without correcting the actual root cause of the problem. Physical Therapy and stretching maneuvers may also be prescribed, and in severe cases, surgery, which unfortunately has a very low success rate and poor patient outcomes. The effects of these strategies are temporary.
Chiropractors analyze and correct subluxations, misalignments, and poor mechanics that are at the root of your pain. We take a comprehensive approach, examining your joints, muscles, and soft tissues. We’ll create corrective exercise routines to stabilize healthy biomechanics for long-term correction. Correcting misalignments optimizes nervous system function, accelerating your ability to heal and improving how your body functions every day.
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How Our Care Plan Works
1. Identify The Root Cause
You will never be able to achieve wellness by chasing your symptoms; you’ll only get stuck on a merry-go-round of medication offering temporary relief. True wellness comes by addressing and correcting the root cause of your symptoms. That work takes advanced diagnostic tools and doctors committed to understanding how you’re feeling and how it’s affecting your life. This crucial first step is the only way to forge a solid foundation for effective care.
2. Discover The Path To Your Goals
Once we’ve identified the root cause of your issues, together, we’ll develop a unique approach tailored to your needs and aspirations. Our various treatment modalities allow us to get the best results regardless of where a patient has been and where they’re going. Whether hitting a new PR, staying competitive through the back nine, or keeping up with your grandkids, each phase of your care is purpose-driven, taking you closer to the person you were meant to be.
3. Live Life Without Limits
With a solid foundation and a clear roadmap, you can achieve and sustain a vibrant, pain-free life, fully equipped to reach your God-given potential. We walk with you on this journey and provide you with the tools and knowledge to ward off future illness and injury and ensure continual improvements to your health and outlook. When you shed the anxiety and despair that comes with a life dictated by health limitations, you can achieve things you never thought possible.
How We Treat SI Joint Pain In Missouri City, TX
Comprehensive Consultation and Exam
Our expert corrective care chiropractors will meet with you to discuss your health history, understand how the condition is affecting your life, and establish your health goals. An examination will include orthopedic and neurological testing, postural analysis, range of motion assessments, and digital X-ray imaging when necessary. A picture is worth a thousand words. This information will help us better understand your unique situation and create a customized treatment program to rehabilitate and correct your body to its fullest potential.
Specific Chiropractic Care in Missouri City, TX
Spinal misalignment, poor mechanics, or a fixated joint segment can lead to pain, inflammation, and even structural wear and tear, which can lead to degeneration. Disc weakening, inflammation, or compression can also create problems with pain and performance.
These problems also have a neurologic effect. The central nervous system controls every cell function, organ, muscle, and tissue in the body. Nerve irritation from a misalignment or disc injury weakens your nervous system, leading to dysfunction and poor immunity.
Chiropractic adjustments correct the normal alignment and joint dysfunction that trigger SI joint pain. Chiropractic has an extremely high success rate at correcting the root cause of the SI joint pain and restoring normal mechanics, alignment, and functionality to our patients’ lives.
Custom Therapeutic Exercises
A customized exercise routine is critical to retrain the soft tissues. Strengthening and stabilizing your muscles will restore balance, ensuring nothing is too spastic or too tight. The balance between stability and strength is essential for normal joint function. We’ll prescribe these exercises based on your examination and particular goals to ensure long-term correction and maintenance of a healthy lifestyle.
Common Causes of SI Joint Pain in Missouri City, TX
Traumatic Injury
Car accidents, sports injuries, repetitive actions, and falls can cause dysfunction leading to SI joint pain. Even old injuries that haven’t been adequately dealt with can cause recurring problems and get worse over time.
Pregnancy
SI joint pain is very common during pregnancy. At Life Essentials Chiropractic, our doctors are certified in the Webster Technique, a stalwart in pregnancy care.
During pregnancy, women produce hormones that loosen the ligaments, usually stabilizing the pelvis to prepare for the baby’s delivery. Even though it’s essential for the natural birth process, it can result in increased instability in the pelvic joints, creating low back pain, SI joint pain, and pain in the legs and feet. It can also lead to compromised alignment of the birth canal, leading to complications and stress in the baby’s head and neck. Pelvic instability is a significant factor leading to increased risk of C-section or medical intervention during birth. It’s essential to go into birth with a healthy, aligned pelvis and spinal structure.
Chiropractic care during pregnancy is safe and incredibly beneficial, both for mom and baby. It’s gentle and highly effective, creating an optimal pelvic alignment and environment for the mother and baby during delivery. In fact, research shows that mothers can have up to a 35% shorter labor and delivery time when they’re under chiropractic care versus not under chiropractic care during their pregnancy.
Arthritis
Arthritis is inflammation or degeneration of a joint. It’s a progressive condition that gets worse over time. Many times, it is caused by long-term, uncorrected spinal, sacral, and pelvic misalignments that result in continual abnormal mechanical wear and tear, similar to a wheel on a tire being out of alignment, wearing out the wheels and joints of a car.
Abnormal joint motion and misalignments cause arthritis to progress, causing more inflammation, irritation, pain, and faster degeneration. Chiropractic care reverses this process of joint immobility and misalignment, restoring joint mobility and normal biomechanical motion. It keeps the joints lubricated, lowers inflammation, decreases mechanical stress, and slows wear and tear degeneration.
Scoliosis
The abnormal lateral curvature and rotation of scoliosis create an uneven loading and weight distribution in the pelvis, sacrum, and SI joint. In fact, the sacrum itself can twist, leading to impinged SI joints, poor pelvic mechanics, joint irritation, and pain. It also damages discs and nerves. Chiropractors specialize in reducing spinal curvatures, creating better alignment patterns, and healthier biomechanics. Chiropractic should also be the first approach to scoliosis care and is incredibly effective at helping reduce the need for spinal fusion surgery.
Spinal Fusion
During a spinal fusion surgery, surgeons will insert screws and plates into your body, fusing vertebral segments that are naturally designed for almost continual motion. This strategy often leads to abnormal mechanics and increased pain and inflammation. It can even shut down the pumping mechanism for intervertebral discs, causing them to thin, crack, and degenerate.
Some people who have had severe traumatic injuries or fractures or broken bones may require spinal fusion, or people who have left the condition untreated and neglected for many, many years beyond the point of rehabilitation. We see patients every single day who have already had previous spinal fusion or other spinal-related surgeries. In almost every case, we can find a way to safely and comfortably treat the patient while avoiding any stress in the areas previously treated with surgery.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What kind of doctor do you see for SI joint pain?
Corrective chiropractors are the best equipped, qualified type of doctor to address SI joint dysfunction. We treat biomechanical, structural, and neurological conditions and design therapeutic exercise programs to rehabilitate the soft tissues around them. This gets the best results, maintaining that correction long term.
What’s the best way to get rid of SI joint pain?
The best way to eliminate SI joint pain is to restore normal alignment and biomechanics through corrective chiropractic care and stabilize those changes long-term with a customized corrective exercise program.
What helps an inflamed SI joint?
Gentle, specific chiropractic adjustments and targeted exercises can help correct the cause of irritated joints, allowing them to heal naturally, decrease inflammation, and promote the natural healing process.
Does walking help SI joint pain?
Once the joint is stable, walking may help with SI joint pain. If the joint is significantly misaligned or has become unstable, it could aggravate the symptoms.
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Includes Comprehensive Consultation, Complete Physical Examination, All Necessary Digital X-rays, Report of Findings.
