Sacroiliac injuries

RE: Sacroiliac injuries

vetbl.locum — Tue, 11 Aug 2015 21:24:36 GMT

I subluxated my SI joint which the physio manipulated back in.

Unfortunately it kept coming back out

She sent me to a consultant who injected dextrose into joint which worked great.

One injection has now lasted years for me

Cannot remember name of technique but very common in USA and fairly risk free

Rgds

RE: Sacroiliac injuries

Martin Atkinson — Tue, 11 Aug 2015 19:13:26 GMT

[quote user="Robin Grimmer"]Bike set up?[/quote]No my position has been fine tuned over the past 50 years of serious cycling and racing and I've had a professional bike fit which just confirmed it was correct to start with. I think that adopting a more upright position to give some recognition of my increasing years may be beneficial but that would mean incurring the wrath of the bike style police of which I am chief constable!! So for now I grin and bear it and reflect that by being more aerodynamic I will go faster and arrive quicker so the pain can be relieved sooner. However that doesn't work as I just go further but at least I look stylish - well to my eyes anyway.

RE: Sacroiliac injuries

Robin Grimmer — Tue, 11 Aug 2015 12:33:43 GMT

[quote user="Martin Atkinson"]

[quote user="Clare Tapsfield-Wright"]I find riding does wonders for my back usually , keeping core muscles toned And far more enjoyable than going to the gym. I'm really missing it[/quote]Ditto cycling. It is ironical that cycling helps to keep my core strong to prevent other injury but at the same time is the cause of most of my back pain.

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Bike set up?

RE: Sacroiliac injuries

Martin Atkinson — Tue, 11 Aug 2015 12:28:01 GMT

RE: Sacroiliac injuries

Will McMullan — Tue, 11 Aug 2015 08:54:31 GMT

I have had recurrent serious SI pain in the past too, and have found seeing a good physio and following his recommended stretches and strength exercises is the best thing for reducing severity and incidence of recurrence. I have seen osteopaths in the past and been totally underwhelmed. They seem more concerned with trying to put on a show and produce a big click than providing me with answers to why it happens and how to prevent it recurring. 'Partial dislocations' etc probably happen because of weaknesses in the soft tissues around the joint, and a physio will help you strengthen those tissues to prevent it happening again.

RE: Sacroiliac injuries

Anthony Todd — Tue, 11 Aug 2015 01:27:30 GMT

I have had recurrent sacroiliac joint pain which appears to be a partial dislocation after paring friesian front feet in the 60s.

Various specialists and therapies were unsuccessful over the years until a chiropractor in Queensland manipulated the joint in a simple twisting movement and gave total relief instantly [as did the chief of the London school of Chiropractic with a similar manipulation].

Pure coincidence, I here the cynics cry, but it's been done about 20 times over the years, and provided it is done correctly, the results go from from bent-double, can't drive etc to TOTAL pain-free normality in seconds.

I've only found one physio and this one Welsh chiropractor [in Oz] who was happy to perform the exact manipulation with the usual total return to normality. [To be fair both these guys knew about it without my direction and I just learned it from them]

it appears to me that the sacro-iliac joint on one side sort of partially dislocates and this manipulation puts it back in place.

Very hard to knock the instant results and I would recommend fellow sufferers explore this avenue.

Having detailed the good, the bad goes from a nice warm young female hand on my sacrum for about 15 minutes [no change in the actual affected area] to another chiro who said I had put my hip out of joint and pressed on my greater trochanter for some minutes or another who jolted my spine with that dental automatic mallet thingy, all totally ineffective.

RE: Sacroiliac injuries

Vet2Vet — Mon, 10 Aug 2015 23:57:42 GMT

Suffered a slam dunk injury about 13 years ago which fractured coccyx and damaged left sacroiliac joint causing chronic issues . Difficult to exercise through , however get a very good sports physio and some treatments . Then follow their exercises ! Yoga and Pilates difficult at first . Concentrate on physios recommendations at first . Eventually , you will be able to do normal exercises . Took me a couple of years .

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Clare Tapsfield-Wright — Mon, 10 Aug 2015 21:52:45 GMT

Yikes you were lucky , good advice, thanks

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Kate Richardson — Mon, 10 Aug 2015 21:44:26 GMT

i had a fall from a horse several years ago now, landed flat on my back on the beach- excruciatingly painful but could move everything. didnt have an X-ray for one reason and another (long amusing in hindsight story!) anyway 10-14 days of pain then much better but ended up seeing a physio a few weeks later as still was sore- recommended X-rays- had a crush fracture if L1 I think it was. specialist I saw said I was lucky I hadn't dislodged something- ct scan was quite scary! But by then it had stabilised and he said that although he wouldn't have advocated being active (I had been riding again and skiing since the initial injury!) that keeping mobile had actually probably helped keep the muscles from seizing up.

So i guess I'd go get an X-ray to be on the safe side!

RE: Sacroiliac injuries

Clare Tapsfield-Wright — Mon, 10 Aug 2015 21:22:49 GMT

I haven't but I did go to A&E inutially as was worried I had a fracture but could stand and walk , full hip movement etc just really painful and muscle spasms . They just advised NSAIDS and paracetamol which have helped . I must say I would have x x xrayed me if I'd been a dog , was intensely painful and I'm quite a tough old bird

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Kate Richardson — Mon, 10 Aug 2015 20:58:19 GMT

I assume you had X-rays?

RE: Sacroiliac injuries

Niall Taylor — Mon, 10 Aug 2015 19:25:17 GMT

[quote user="Clare Tapsfield-Wright"]... propelled skywards off horse and landed on Tarmac and have bruised sprained or strained sacroiliac joint... [/quote]

Ouch - no idea about sacroiliac injuries in humans I'm afraid but you have my sympathies. I hope you get beter soon

All the best,

Niall

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Clare Tapsfield-Wright — Mon, 10 Aug 2015 19:17:39 GMT

Sounds sensible , I'll give it a few more days. I find riding does wonders for my back usually , keeping core muscles toned And far more enjoyable than going to the gym. I'm really missing it

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Martin Atkinson — Mon, 10 Aug 2015 18:09:18 GMT

[quote user="Clare Tapsfield-Wright"] Question is do I exercise through the pain or am I expecting too much too soon ? [/quote]OK, I suffer from chronic sacro-iliac pain and last year I greatly exacerbated it. Some say it was all the crazy skiing I do and the crashes that come with the territory, I maintain it was just sitting awkwardly on the plane coming home! Notwithstanding this I was in great pain, couldn't even sleep properly, or worse cycle without crippling pain! I was so desperate that while I waited for an appointment with a specialist (even privately that took 2 weeks) I went to the local osteopath (which if you know my views on them shows the level of my desperation) which was just a waste of time as suspected.

Still to cut a long story short, and finding I had several other issues with my back and hips which showed on X-ray and MRI, I asked the exact same question. The specialist said,that as hard as I think I am, I risked chronic allodynia/hyperalgesia if I persisted and a period of rest with some gentle core exercises and NSAIDs would be of benefit. In the end it only took another week of so and the pain suddenly eased. I still suffer from chronic low grade back pain after long bike rides but exercise doesn't exacerbate it so I put up with that. He also told me my hips weren't far off needing replacements yet I suffer virtually no issues with them. I put that down to regular exercise keeping everything in trim.

RE: Sacroiliac injuries

Gerry Henry — Mon, 10 Aug 2015 13:06:35 GMT

See a GOOD osteopath.