“Last month, while working in the yard I felt a slight twinge in my low back over the left hip area.

Throughout the day, I felt a few twinges of pain, but not real severe. As the night wore on, the pain got worse. I used ice and took ibuprofen but the next morning I could hardly move. It hurts the most when I try to get up from a chair or turnover in bed. Now, the pain runs down the front of my left leg. What is it and can you help me?”

Answer:

Yes, I can help you. Your condition is probably due to an underlying subluxation (misalignment) of your sacro-iliac joint which is why you have had pain off and on throughout your life. Working in your yard usually requires a lot of bending over. After awhile, your muscles become tired, overworked and one false move can cause them to become overly tight. This muscular hypertension will cause your sacro-iliac to lock up and not move. This irritated the spinal nerves causing the pain to refer to the front thigh and it also caused the tissues to become inflamed. That is why you feel pain. Ice is great to decrease the inflammation but it will not unlock your sacro-iliac joint. When people use over the counter anti-inflammatories they are only masking the symptoms and actually causes joint degeneration. The best way to unlock your sacro-iliac joint and put motion back into it is through a chiropractic adjustment. Using a specialized table I can put motion back into your sacro-iliac joint without a forceful adjustment. Unlike medicine, a chiropractic adjustment treats the cause and not the symptom. I would also do trigger point therapy to release the muscle tension. You will feel so much better! Call 479-587-0227 for an appointment and go to our website, www.thegibsoncenter.com for more information.