We help a good number of patients with back pain in our Buffalo office, and Dr. John Nowak has noticed that quite a few cases of back pain stem from the sacroiliac (SI) joint. Research has demonstrated that about 25% of all back pain begins in the SI joint, and now new research ratifies what we have noticed in our office: chiropractic is an effective approach to treating this problem.
Research Shows Chiropractic Treatment Helps Increase Movement in the SI Joint
In the study released in the Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies, 32 women with sacroiliac joint dysfunction were separated into two groups and asked to take part in one of two treatment therapies. The first group went through a chiropractic adjustment isolated to the sacroiliac joint, and the second group received an adjustment to the sacroiliac joint as well as the lumbar spine.
Specialists found significantly more improvements in both pain and movement immediately following treatment, two days later, and 30 days after for the individuals who had been given high-velocity low-amplitude manipulation to both the sacroiliac joint and the lumbar spine. This suggests that chiropractic treatment applied to these two areas offers both short term and lasting benefits for sacroiliac joint pain sufferers—even with just a single treatment session.
Therefore, if you are having trouble with sacroiliac joint pain, or have back and leg pain and would like to see if your sacroiliac joint is the source, a visit to our Buffalo office may be the first—and best—step towards feeling better. Give our office a call today at (716) 825-4121.
Kamali F, Shokri E. The effect of two manipulative therapy techniques and their outcome in patients with sacroiliac joint syndrome. Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies 2012;16(1):29-35.
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