You mean iliac ie. ilium bone that has rotated and lifted (subluxated) ie. not-normal movement has happened in SIJ joint. Names for it for you to google: "SIJD", "SIJS", "SIJ subluxation" "SIJ upslip/dysfunction/subluxation/malfunction /.." also "misalignment/malalignment/rotated/twisted pelvis" and many others too. So many names for a baby everybody knows but most of them don't understand... Most sites you will find explains how they understand it, but if you go through them all you see they all see it differently... Even site (edited for promoting other healthsite info) disagrees with most experts and I disagree with them in many details... Especially the way how to treat it! Most often they, as many other specialists, will diagnose that problem to the wrong side because even they seem not to understand what is the cause of the PAINS! That is just my opinion...

Your problem is very possible, very real and very common problem. And most likely to be misdiagnosed so that many pain patients suffers it but most of them never get that diagnosis...

I suffered it 15 years until I found a specialist who understood how to correct it properly. Since that moment I have been searching and studying this problem. I have collected everything there is about this very common disorder but most poorly understood by medical specialists as MD. Orrin Mann is trying to manifest! - I totally agree with him!!!!

That is most likely the most common reason for low back pains and to many other problems too, but it is so poorly known to medical scientists and experts that most of them don't even believe it exists! And that is sad because it conserns millions of back pain patients, as you can see from information I have collected...

Chriopractic technique is not the best way to treat it but better treatment is very hard to find... It exisists but there is no universal technique that would correct id once and for all..

Brandi....I guess the misalignment could be causing spasms but I suspect something else. As a seven-year sufferer of back pain, including many episodes of spasms, I can give you examples of other causes.

First of all, see a doctor so that you can get x-rays and an MRI. Once you have the pictures of your spine, then you can be referred to a specialist like an orthopedic back guy. If there is some abnormality in your discs, then treatment can begin.

Nerve involvement near the discs are many times the cause of extreme pain and spasms. The nerves may be compressed with age (you didn't say how old you were) or from sitting over the years. The discs press on the nerves and *voila* you have mucho pain and spasms.

I used to be paralyzed by the spasms and several times had to be taken home from work in a wheel chair. Not very good for my image as a former athlete. So I know what it's like to have to lay flat without moving for hours. Luckily, they do have pain medications and muscle relaxers to ease your pain.

However, until you know what is causing it, your doctor will not know how to proceed. There are also a variety of injections (steroids, nerve blocks, radiofrequency nerve ablation) that do provide relief. I would look into these with a pain management specialist before even considering any type of surgery.

Let me know if all of this makes sense or if I've forgotten to answer any questions you might have.

Good luck