Approximately 40 percent of all low back pain is related to sacroiliac joint dysfunction. The sacroiliac joint (SI joint) is one of two joints in your pelvis that connect the tailbone (the sacrum) and ...
This week we are going to venture into a dysfunction of the spine which is really not of the spine at all, but rather, is a specific joint of the pelvis and the associated joints which go into ...
Editor’s Note: Dr. Nick Shamie is Chief of Orthopaedic Spine Surgery at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and is a professor of orthopedic surgery and neurosurgery at UCLA School of Medicine. He is ...
Many patients live with low back pain that radiates to the buttock, groin, thigh, and even knees. The challenge for patients, and often their doctors, is determining the origin of the pain -- the hip, ...
Scoliosis may predispose patients to temporomandibular disorders (TMDs). The study, which was published in early December in Clinical Radiology, is believed to be the first to explore the link between ...