Sacroiliac Joint Pain: For Tens of Thousands the Pain Ends Here

Millions suffer from chronic low back pain. What most people don't know is that the sacroiliac joint is the actual source of pain in up to 22% of these cases, and that surgery can provide a cure.Most doctors and surgeons are not trained to check the sacroiliac joint as a source of pain during a routine examination for back pain.Additional facts are: - Diagnosing and surgically treating chronic sacroiliac joint pain are not currently taught in medical schools, surgical residency programs or spine surgery fellowships.- Despite this thousands of sacroiliac joint fusions are being performed annually for pain with this number only escalating each year.This book explains why and how these opposing facts can exist in America today, and how patients with chronic low back pain can be educated and proactive in order to find the best appropriate and permanent relief for their condition.We are currently in an "opioid crisis" in our country and in the world. Every time the diagnosis of Sacroiliac Joint Pain is ignored or missedsets the stage for increased narcotic use to give short term relief for that untreated pain. From my own experience in evaluating hundreds of such patients, untreated Sacroiliac Joint Pain is certainly a contributor to this crisis.Very soon the term "Sacroiliac Joint Pain" will be as commonly used and understood as the "herniated disc", "malalignment", and "muscle ache" arefor low back pain today. If you are a sufferer from chronic low back pain that has not been diagnosed, is not responding to conservative treatments, or youhave had a failed back surgery and still having the same old pain, this book is for you. If you are an orthopedic spine surgeon, a neurosurgeon, a primary care doctor or someone who treats low back pain you need to know what is in this book before your patients do, so you can properly diagnose this condition and make sure they get the treatment they deserve.This is the first book to offer a brand new understanding and approach to chronic low back pain that has plagued humans for millenniums and provide steps to obtain a definitive cure. It is a paradigm changer! Dr. Dall has placed a very human face on a real medical problem that has for too long been ignored and undertreated. In doing so, he is eminently qualified to author this book.Among the handful of us who believed the sacroiliac joint caused pain and that this pain could be treated, he was the first to successfully publish his resultsand findings in a respected researc