Do you have pains in your lower or upper
back, buttock or leg? Do you have muscle
stiffness or even spasms in your back,
leg, neck? Headacke? Ischias? Radiating
leg pain or tingling? Piriformis
problems? Spondy? Short leg?
And doctors don't know what is wrong with
you? They blame your scoliosis,
curvatures, bad posture, weak muscles,
short leg,...
Wellcome to world of sacroiliac joint
dysfunction patients (sijd-patients)!
There are millions of us and many doctors
don't even believe we exist...
For me to get help took about 25 years.
During that time I had about 40 useless
visits in about 20 doctors, had many
x-rays, mris and countless amount of blood
and pee tests… they were all useless and
expensive!
I got some help from about 20 visits to
few physical therapeutists (mainly from
acupuncture), about 15 visits to a
chiropractor and about 30 visits to a
naprapath. But the help was only
temporarily… still it kept me alive!
Finally after 15 years of chronic back
pain, leg numbness, headaches and many
more nasty sijd-symptoms I found a doctor
who knew what sijd is and how to correct
it.
And there are many others like me:
"i have been recently diagnosed with
sacroiliac joint dysfunction. I have had
a lower back problem for 12 years and
someone finally diagnosed me." - pkchop01,
posted 03-15-2005
"after 7 yrs of chronic sciatic pain,
multiple rounds of conservative treatment,
and numerous visits to neurosurgeons and
physiatrists, I have just gone to a
chiropracter for the first time and was
diagnosed with sacroiliac syndrome.- why
dont doctors take it a step further to
assess for this???" – goldilox, posted:
thu oct 23, 2003
what is it?
Twisted pelvis, malaligned pelvis,
sacroiliac syndrome, si joint dysfunction,
si joint syndrome, pelvic inequality,
upslip, anteriorly rotated innominate,
rotated ilium, sacroiliac joint
sprain,…
"each year millions of people suffer with
low back pain. Lower back pain is very
common and may persist anywhere from a few
months to several years. Many times the
source of low back pain can be caused by
malalignment of the sacroiliac joint (si
joint) resulting in a sprain. This
condition can often remain undiagnosed for
several years if your health care
professional is not trained to identify
the signs and symptoms of a sacroiliac
joint problem..."
even j.F. Kennedy seems to had sijd, but
doctors didn't understand it then, they
don't understand it now. Most of them
don't believe such a disorder even
exists...
"i wonder if there are few doctors would
diagnose anyone with an si joint issue.
It seems to be something pts will term a
patient as having, but I wonder if doctors
are aware of this issue. I only wonder
based on my own experience of having a
brother in law as an orthopedic doctor and
scratching his head at the idea of having
an sijd. How can that be when the si
ligaments are the strongest in the body,
he wonders."
-sarag
"recognizing that very few physicians are
trained in diagnosing pelvic joint
dysfunctions, my judgment is that these
are the most frequently amisdiagnosed (or
nondiagnosed) conditions in the united
states, effecting millions of patients
annually."
orrin mann md, mph.
And how many patients in world wide?
I’d say hundreds of millions of them…
"there is very little written about the
sacro-iliac joint (s.I.) in medical books
on backache. As orthopaedic and
neurosurgical residents are not taught to
consider s.I. Dysfunction as a cause of
back pain, it is not surprising that
surgeons know little of diagnosis and
treatment."
arnold graham smith, m.D., f.R.C.S, april,
1999
no-one listens to us patients..?
"a chiropractor I saw told me this was the
cause of my pain but an orthopedic doctor,
neurologist, and neurosurgeon told me it
wasn't. It turns out I really had
sacroiliac joint dysfunction due to loose
ligaments on those joints. " -silvia
"well, it can be quite difficult to get si
j problems diagnosed & recognised.
You see, so many drs & specialists
don't believe that this joint can move at
all let alone move & cause pain. I
was first diagnosed by an excellent physio
who then wrote a report to the drs &
specialists I was seeing at the time. My
gp took it on board to try to find out
more about it, his wife also being a
physio, was able to explain it more fully
to him, so he has been very sympathetic,
but the orthopaedic specialist I was
seeing at that time had not been long in
the field & had no idea nor did he
want to listen.” – jules, posted: fri
oct 07, 2005
and hundreds of similar stories exits, but
no doctor wants to listen…
