Stabilizing Your SI Joint

Back and hip pain can have significant effects on your way of life. Since your back and hips play a crucial role in how you move, it can be debilitating to experience pain in these areas. Sometimes, traditional methods like painkillers, heating pads, and other options aren’t enough to solve the problem. But, there is hope for those who desperately seek relief from crippling pain. An SI joint stabilization procedure is a minimally invasive surgery aiming to stabilize one of the important joints in your body and provide long-lasting comfort.

Here are a few points on how it works and if it may be a treatment to help you.

What Causes Issues With the Sacroiliac Joint

The sacroiliac joint acts as a buffer when you walk. When you have issues and when incidents such as a traumatic injury, car accident, fall, or arthritis can contribute to problems with the joint.

How Does an SI Joint Stabilization Help?

The Sacroiliac joint is essential to your stability while you stand and acts as a shock absorber when you move. It connects your spine to your pelvis and plays a crucial role in helping you perform critical movements. When you have pain in this area, it can be excruciating and significantly impact your quality of life.

 An SI Joint Stabilization is an innovative treatment that can help stabilize the joint and relieve you.

What to Expect With an SI Joint Stabilization

Many people are opposed to surgical procedures of any kind because of concerns surrounding extended stays in the hospital and long recovery times. An SI Joint Stabilization procedure functions differently because it is a minimally invasive surgery involving small incisions in your back to access the SI joint. From here, your doctor can insert a graft to help stabilize the joints by connecting them and stabilizing them. 

The procedure takes a little more than an hour to complete and helps many patients experience long-lasting comfort and security in the joint. Many patients can return home the same day and return to their normal activities shortly after, but these results depend on how your body responds to the treatment.

Don’t hesitate to get in touch with our office to learn more about an SI joint stabilization treatment. Please schedule a consultation in Show Low today by calling us at 855-768-4968.