SI joint pain, help!

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  • lgregory6540
    lgregory6540 Posts: 63 Member
    I'd give chiro a shot- just a bit to see if it improves at all, if there's no change the other options will still be there! Hope it feels better soon
  • sgt1372
    sgt1372 Posts: 3,997 Member
    GaoleeYaj wrote: »
    I went to see chiropractor and he said he treats this all the time. I may just skip the whole medical treatment and try the chiropractor first. Any thoughts?

    What chiropractors do is primarily based on the theory of muscle/bone "realignment." You have a degenerative bone condition which is causing a pinched nerve that is causing your sciatic pain. A chiropractor "may" be able to realign your spine so that the nerve is pinched less (or maybe not at all) but I do not think that would be a permanent fix. The pain killers and steroid injections are also palliative and will not necessarily lead to a cure either.

    The risk is that in doing a spinal "realignment" could make your pain worse. If you've never seen or experienced just a treatment, you should take a look at some YouTube videos to see if that's something you want to do. If it is, you can give it a try but I would talk w/the chiropractor and share the medical diagnosis w/him to warn him about the condition of your spine, if you have not already done so. If the realignment works, there will be no need to take the pills or get the injections but, if it fails, the medical treatments would be your only recourse.

    FWIW, I had SI pain caused by a squat injury. I had chiropractic realignment which didn't work but didn't make the pain any worse. I had an MRI which detected spinal stenosis but not specific problem w/the SI joint where the pain originated. I did not have an sciatic pain. I had 2 steroid injections in the SI joint (over 6 months) which did very little to alleviate the pain. The only thing that worked in my case was time. I didn't lift again for 3 years and in that time the pain finally went away. I just resumed lifting a few months ago and my SI pain did not return.

    Here's hoping for a better and quicker resolution in your case.



  • subakwa
    subakwa Posts: 347 Member
    You are asking if you should skip genuine medical advice to see a quack instead?

    Chiropractic intervention for back pain has not been proven. In fact studies have shown that there is no statistically significant difference between length of time for back pain resolution with chiropractic treatment vs no treatment at all. People ascribe success to chiropractors because they happen to be seeing them when resolution occurs.

    It can be different with other areas of the body where manipulation can help. This isn't a downer on all chiropractic activity, but for your back, stay clear and listen to a medically trained doctor.

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