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Do Your Dimples Hurt? You Probably Have SI Joint Pain!
Your SI joints are the 2 little dimples you feel at the very bottom of your lower back.
It’s a common lower back pain cause and one that is very often self-misdiagnosed as sciatica because of its symptoms.
The SI joint causes pain because it takes a large amount of stress from the entire upper body before transmitting that force through those 2 little dimples into your pelvis and legs.
Continued sitting, poor posture, lifting incorrectly, scoliosis and other biomechanical factors can increase the stress going through these joints.
This leads to varying degrees of damage to your joints and the surrounding muscles and ligaments leading to micro trauma, inflammation and pain.
You may be experiencing lower back pain from SI strain if you feel:
– Pain over the dimples in your back
– Pain running across your back (From the middle towards the sides)
– Pain into the groin, the buttock or down the leg to the thigh
Pain running down the thigh is a common referral pattern of SI Joint pain but is often confused for the symptoms of sciatica which is why it’s so important to have the cause of your lower back pain correctly diagnosed.
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