Are my shoulders bent?

A woman recently visited my chiropractic office to test her lower back pain. Asked me, "Why do my shoulders bend?" He realized that his weight was not distributed on both legs. He felt like he was carrying more weight on the other side. Mass therapists and seamstresses who make shirts and skirts say one hip is higher than the other. My patients wonder if their lower back pain is due to mechanical misalignment of their hips and pelvis.

Often, a person's pelvis is misaligned, which can cause pain in the joint in the pelvis called the sacroiliac joint (SI joint). These conditions can be helped with safe, gentle chiropractic care. This article will discuss pelvic alignment, sacroiliac joint pain, and correcting SI joint conditions with chiropractic care. It will also include research showing that proper anatomical alignment of the pelvis can be improved with chiropractic adjustments.

Let's start by explaining the anatomy of the pelvis and sacroiliac joints. Our body does not have one large bone that forms the pelvis. This area is made up of three separate bones. There are two outer wing bones, the iliac bone and the central tailbone, the sacrum. Between the iliac bone and the sacrum is the sacroiliac joint. The SI joint is a gliding joint. They slide back and forth as we walk

The top of the iliac bone, called the iliac crest, must be in correct anatomical alignment. If one appears higher than the other, it usually indicates a mechanical misalignment of the pelvis. This disorder puts stress on the SI joint, which can cause pain. The pain is generally at the tip of the spine, in the pocket of the trousers. If a person's pain is centered in the back, it usually comes from the lower spine rather than the sacroiliac joint.

If there is a misalignment of the pelvis and SI joints, chiropractors treat to correct the situation using chiropractic change. Chiropractic adjustments are very safe, and gentle, and will correct bone deformities. Many chiropractic patients find chiropractic change a pleasant experience because it corrects a mechanical misalignment.

A December 2020 study found that chiropractic adjustments of the SI joint resulted in measurable changes in pelvic alignment. Correcting anatomical abnormalities of the pelvis can be very helpful in improving lower back pain associated with SI joint problems.

I told my patient, "Yes," when she asked if she had a sprained hip, which causes pelvic sacroiliac joint irritation and lower back pain. He is happy to report that after hip and pelvic alignment, he was able to relieve his sacroiliac joint pain.