The Back Pain That Isn’t Coming From Your Back
You have had an MRI of your lumbar spine. It showed some wear, nothing dramatic. You have had physiotherapy aimed at your lower back, possibly an injection, and the pain is exactly where it was: low, to one side, deep in the buttock. There is a reasonable chance the problem is not in your lumbar spine at all. It may be in the joint that sits just below and outside it, and a standard lumbar MRI is not designed to find it. The joint most people have never heard of The sacroiliac joint connects the sacrum, the triangular bone at the base of your spine, to the pelvis on each side. It transfers the entire load of your
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