So then, SPD, now I am going to be honest (as always) and say this is not my favourite topic. This injury can get very complicated and I do not see enough of it for me to consider myself an expert. I also dislike that the name is interchanged with ‘Pelvic Girdle Dysfunction’ as that is such a generic term! This post is designed to explain a few bits about what can happen and how pain can occur, I’ll also explain what the next step would likely be if conservative care fails. T

The lower crossed syndrome again is not a diagnosis but is a group of findings that is very common. A lower crossed syndrome is again as a result of the general positions our body’s adopt each day. The main culprit that leads to this syndrome is sitting, when we sit our hip flexors are in a shortened position, when they are held in this position they can become very tight. When a muscle is too tight and is therefore firing too much, the opposite muscle relaxes just like the b

The Sacro-Iliac joint is a common cause of lower back pain due to the large amount of force it has to cope with, patients often get this joint confused with the hip as it is quite low and slightly to the side of the spine. Front view: Pain that originally starts in this region often spreads across the whole of the lower back, this is because inflammation is a very clever but also very crude system. When the inflammatory process starts, it essentially dumps inflammatory chemic