SI Joint Pain...Frustrated.

[daisylubob]

Still having pain, still frustrated. Trying to be patient....this is not easy.

[NbyNW]

I haven't commented on this thread before but have been following it . . . just wanted to tell you to hang in there!

Do you at least feel like things are improving a little?

I'm not a professional health care anything, I just know from personal experience that it can take a LONG time to feel some relief. And it's frustrating when you can't have a day off from the pain and the limitations of your injury. So if you feel like you're in good hands, stick with the program.

I had a back injury a few years ago that took a long time to rehab. And it's just part of me now, that's something I've had to accept. I doubt I will ever NOT be aware of the trauma to that part of my body. So it's something I account for in my daily routines or any time I'm training for anything. I have to pamper it and condition it properly in order to do things that I love. And afterwards I have to be kind to my body and thank it for cooperating.

Good luck!

[Kano]

my sympathies too -- I just found this thread tonight, and see that YOUR doctor, PT or whoever did the XRay stuff says you're a degenerate, and now Knotted says you're deranged!

Here you just thought your back hurt!

Karen in Boise

[tulip]

Still having pain, still frustrated. Trying to be patient....this is not easy.

It's likely that your back situation did not occur overnight, but rather over a lifetime of posture issues. That's the case with me. The "cure" will not happen overnight, either. Patience and consistency are key with PT. It sounds like you have the best PT one could ask for.

[daisylubob]

Thanks Tulip, that is most likely true. I have been working on posture improvement w/ my chiro for over a year, and it is much better. I am in a different PT program, and was referred to a Pilates specialist/trainer who showed me the correct way of doing Pilates exercises. This past Sunday, I learned the hard way that I have to stay off my mtb til healing has happened. Went out w/ my sis for 7-8 mile EASY mtb ride (it has been 6 months), and paid the price in pain and getting yelled at by the chiro and PT

[lisathew8lifter]

daisy,..listen to the doctors that are telling you what to do and that is to NOT exercise right now. sounds like you are on your way with the posture, and instruction on doing the exercises correctly. i was doiing everything wrong and the right muscles were not firing and the wrong muscles continued to fire. i had zero core strength since my back took the brunt of what i was doing.