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KateSwiss1
31-01-2007, 09:50 AM
Hi,

I am a 21 your old female. I have been very active for the majority of my life. I played tennis for a Div 1 school for 2 years. It was very demanding on my body. I ended up with a stress fracture and a ton of other injuries along the way.

About 3-3.5 months ago was the last time I played tennis for my school and I ended up getting some really sharp lower back pains on my right side. Shortly after this started happening, I was done with tennis. I haven't worked out hardly at all since then until last week when I started things up again. I have started a running program. Although I have had pain in my lower back on the right side, I have continued with the running. The pain comes after about 15 minutes of running then it is so sharp that I am forced to stop. This is the same pain that I had when tennis was coming to an end. I am having a hard time thinking it could not have healed seeing as that I didnt really do anything during that time period of 3 or more months. It has come back within the first couple days of me starting to work out again. Throughout the time I didnt do anything, it would randomly come back in just 1 or 2 shooting pains when I would be doing something. It seemed to be really random, like vacuuming or sitting in a chair.

For the most part though, it went away. But now that I am starting to exercise again, it has 100% come back. Yesturday after my running, I was pretty much bed ridden until this morning when I woke up. It was bearable this morning to walk, but I could still feel it. I then went running again today and now it is back in a sharo shooting pain. I do not have the pain when I am sitting down necessarly. It is mostly when I get up and the first couple steps I take, and then if I am standing for a while it goes away. This pain is very sharp and stabbing. It doesn't go anywhere outside of my low low back on the right side though.

Thank You for reading this, it has become much longer than I anticipated!!!

paulmr2
31-01-2007, 08:05 PM
sorta sounds like my problem, mine is a locked sacroiliac joint, i am seeing sports physio who is trying to loosen up the joint by manipulation and he has given me some pelvic floor exercises to strengthen the muscles in my pelvis as to stabilize the joint. it is a very frustrating injury! let me know how it goes.
paul

Mischap123
04-02-2007, 08:33 PM
Sounds like a biomechanical problem. Either a SI joint or lumbar facet problem. See a chiro/Osteo/ Physio and get some treatment.

expatient
05-02-2007, 01:46 AM
sorta sounds like my problem, mine is a locked sacroiliac joint, i am seeing sports physio who is trying to loosen up the joint by manipulation and he has given me some pelvic floor exercises to strengthen the muscles in my pelvis as to stabilize the joint. it is a very frustrating injury! let me know how it goes.
paul
Could you tell more about your diagnose: On which side you have pain and which side your locked SI is diagnosed ? Is your other leg shorter?

paulmr2
05-02-2007, 06:05 PM
legs r same size, locked joint is on the right side, and the pain/discomfort goes from side to side but is prodominantly more on the right side
paul

angieliu
05-02-2007, 07:38 PM
I actually don't have a very strong lower back and only saw an osteo to get treatment for it about a year ago. He told me to stop running because it would the impact would go straight to my lower back which is true so when you run you have to be really careful and make sure to support your lower back that you tighten your core muscles. It's really important because they hold you upright along with your back.

I also had one shorter leg than the other and had been walking with uneven weight for most of my life until I had the osteo take a look at it.

I'm not a fan of chiro's as I have not had good experiences with them aside from the one who I saw in the States. Highly recommend a physio who specialises in lumbar injuries or go to see an osteopath. If you look up on the section "how to find a sports med clinic" you should be able to find a physio or osteo near you.

Hope the back starts to calm down. Yoga can help, if you practice forward bends it will also help release the tension in the lower back.

expatient
05-02-2007, 08:15 PM
legs r same size, locked joint is on the right side, and the pain/discomfort goes from side to side but is prodominantly more on the right side
paul
So how was that "locked" SIJ diagnosed? What was the method, test or perhaps many tests used for diagnosing it?
Pain is usually on the other side that the locked SIJ is. If pain is in both sides and legs are equal, you might have both SIJs locked...

paulmr2
05-02-2007, 08:40 PM
well the physio did a few tests like i lied on my stomach while he bent my legs up behind me and put them in different positions and another one where i lied on my back while he bent my leg to my chest and felt around my si joint to se if there was movement, he did this for both sides, im seeing a osteo this friday aswell to try and speed things up. alot of the pain has decreased since ive been seeing the physio but im quite anxiious so im trying to get this over with quicker

expatient
07-02-2007, 05:02 PM
well the physio did a few tests like i lied on my stomach while he bent my legs up behind me and put them in different positions and another one where i lied on my back while he bent my leg to my chest and felt around my si joint to se if there was movement, he did this for both sides, im seeing a osteo this friday aswell to try and speed things up. alot of the pain has decreased since ive been seeing the physio but im quite anxiious so im trying to get this over with quicker
Sounds good. But SIJ lock always shortens leg. So I bet you have them both locked. And usually they test SIJ stiffnes with that test where you were lying on your back and SIJ stiffnes is most often on the healthy side, so it is not a good test.

Actually you don't need to test SIJs at all. A good manipulator just uses the correct technic to pelvis and if there is a problem it gets corrected. If no problem exists then no harm done, because correct technic is safe. But there is always something stuck in pelvis if you have pain somewhere in your back or pelvis area... it is so common to find disorders in pelvis.

A good manipulator opens SIJ locks in few seconds and no need to go to a treatment many times... A good manipulator is hard to find. I have been searching good ones with many other patients and we have tried about 50 of them and only 3 have been good.

paulmr2
07-02-2007, 07:19 PM
well the good news is that after my last treament from the physio he hooked me up with some streches and now my "lock" is pretty much totally free, like i cant feel it when i bring my leg to my chest, so im pretty stoked with that. still seeing the osteo in 2 days so hopefully this 9 month ordeal is almost done with. sorry for the thread hi-jack too hahahahahahha