Lower back pain is a leading cause of missed workdays and the most common cause of job-related disability. Your sacroiliac joints are located where the sacrum and ilium meet in the lower back.

Pain in your sacroiliac joint is a common cause of low back pain. Sacroiliitis vs. SI joint dysfunction Sacroiliitis is the medical term for inflammation (pain, swelling, and sometimes heat and ...

Studies have found that 20 to 25% of all chronic lower back pain comes not from the spine but from the sacroliac, or SI, joint, which bears and transfers weight and movement from your upper body ...

Generally, sciatica or “leg pain” is not a component of the sacroiliac joint disorder. However, pseudosciatica or false sciatica can be. The muscles of the hip specifically the external ...

The extent of structural lesions seen on MRI of sacroiliac joints is higher in patients with axSpA than in individuals ...

“SI joint pain usually affects one side of the back more than the other,” Dr. Philip says. You also probably won’t have numbness or weakness like you might with other types of back pai ...

Medically reviewed by David Ozeri, MD Sacroiliitis is inflammation of the sacroiliac (SI) joint in the pelvic region of your ...

Sciatic symptoms can also be caused by muscle tension and unstable joints. Pelvic bone pain, sacroiliac (SI) joint problems, and a condition called piriformis syndrome, which is a problem with one ...

Also called the SI joint, it’s a common cause of low back pain, but not always an obvious one. The body has two sacroiliac joints, one on each side of the spine. Each joint’s role is to act as ...

Sometimes what seems like sciatica during pregnancy is really pain in the area of the sacroiliac (SI) joint — the joint where the sacrum, the triangular bone in the lower part of the spine ...

For 15% to 30% of people with long-term lower back pain, one of the sacroiliac (SI) joints, which connect the pelvis with the spine, is the source. But it’s not always easy for people or their ...