It’s a great way to build muscular strength without negatively impacting your SI joints. Basically, if you have an SI joint injury, you have likely sprained the ligaments that are supposed to hold the joint in place. The only way around this is to build up enough muscle strength around the joint that your muscles are able to hold things in place more. In … Continue reading What’s so awesome about aquatic therapy?
When my SI joints were at their worst, they were extremely sensitive to the kind of surface I was resting on. Of course, in the midst of my problem, the mattress I’d loved for about 10 years finally wore out. And it wore out bad. Now that I’m doing better, it’s almost hard to remember how sensitive I was. At the time, all I knew was … Continue reading The mattress that helped my SI joint issues
Hey everyone, Something my female readers ask me pretty about often is whether our hormones can play a role in SI joint dysfunction. The answer to this question is definitely yes — although it’s something you may not notice as much, once you become stronger. Basically, one of the hormones a woman’s body releases in the days leading up to her period is a hormone … Continue reading Powerful female hormones, injuries & back pain
Hey everyone, I was just working on revamping the “My Story” page for this blog, and I ended up reflecting on one aspect of this saga which I really haven’t talked about as much: How totally and completely crazy I felt when I was first trying to get help for this problem. The first time one of my SI joints locked up, in 2011, it was a … Continue reading So, it turns out I wasn’t crazy…
Hey everyone, I recently stumbled upon this fascinating-looking course: Evidence-Based Examination and Treatment of the Pelvis through Medbridge Education. It’s a continuing education course for physical therapists who want to be able to treat SIJ pain. It’s given by Dr. Alexis Wright, who has a pretty impressive resume. She has a Ph.D. in physical therapy clinical research, is APTA board-certified in orthopedics, and is a Fellow … Continue reading Evidence-Based Examination and Treatment of the Pelvis (Continuing Education for PT’s)
Okay, it’s been officially three weeks since my fall on the ice, and I think it’s safe to say that this episode is resolving without turning into the dramatic re-injury that I feared. It is more a blip on the radar– the kind of setback I had from time to time for years while trying to recover from my first injury– than its own new … Continue reading Post-Fall Update, Part 3
I had been starting to think of this fall 10 days ago as a thing of the past, however tonight something odd happened. A few things have come together to create kind of the perfect storm: –-Falling hard on ice 10 days ago –I saw a new massage therapist who put way too much stress on my knees and made my knee issues flare up, so … Continue reading Post-Fall Update, Part 2
Well, it’s been 10 days since I fell and predicted I was going to have an increase in SI joint problems. Here’s what happened: For about five days, things felt a little bit loose. I felt as though my SI joints were moving more than they were supposed to, but nothing really moved crazily out of place. It seemed as though my ligaments and my … Continue reading Post-Fall Update
Well, I knew it had to come eventually– the day I slipped and fell on ice, and landed on my butt. Blunt force to the SI joints, particularly if it’s asymmetric, is known to be a potential cause of injury. That’s because it can subject the ligaments to greater force than they can handle, stretching them out. A similar fall, I believe, is what caused … Continue reading Facing one of my worst fears: a potential reinjury
A reader asked me if I’d ever had prolotherapy yesterday, and since I’ve been meaning to write about it for a while, now seems like the right time to put this out there! What is prolotherapy? Prolotherapy is a relatively new form of treatment, meant to speed the healing of sprained ligaments. It involves an injection of special substances into the specific area you want … Continue reading What is Prolotherapy? (and why I didn’t end up having it).
My Sacroiliac Joint Saga 