We help a good number of people with back pain in our South Buffalo office, and Dr. John Nowak finds that quite a few cases of back pain start in the sacroiliac (SI) joint. Investigation has demonstrated that roughly twenty-five percent of all back pain begins in the SI joint, and now new research corroborates what we see in our office: chiropractic is an effective method for treating this pain.
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 who suffered from sacroiliac joint dysfunction were split into two groups and asked to engage in one of two treatment therapies. The first group received a chiropractic adjustment only at the sacroiliac joint, and the alternate group got an adjustment to the sacroiliac joint as well as the lumbar spine.
Scientists observed greater improvements in both pain and movement immediately following treatment, two days post-treatment, and 30 days later for the patients who received high-velocity low-amplitude manipulation to both the sacroiliac joint and the lumbar spine. This demonstrates that chiropractic treatment administered in these two areas offers both short term and continuing results for sacroiliac joint pain sufferers—even with just one treatment round.
Therefore, if you are having trouble with sacroiliac joint pain, or cope with back and leg pain and want to find out whether your sacroiliac joint is the cause, a visit to our South Buffalo office could 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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