Parker Pain and Rehab Center - Sacroiliac Joint Pain Sacroiliac Joint Pain Definition Spinal pain stemming from a sacroiliac joint. Clinical Features Pain perceived in the region of the sacroiliac joint with or without referred pain into the lower limb girdle or lower limb itself. The following criteria should all be fulfilled.
Pain is present in the region of the sacroiliac joint.
Stressing the sacroiliac joint by clinical tests that are selective for the joint reproduces the patient's pain, 3. Selectively infiltrating the putatively symptomatic joint with local anesthetic completely relieves the patient of the pain. Presumably the pain is caused by excessive stresses being imposed on the ligaments of the sacroiliac joint as a result of some structural fault in the joint itself or as a result of the joint as a whole being subject to inordinate stresses. This category does not encompass sacroiliitis, ankylosing spondylitis, or seronegative spondylarthropathies that may be demonstrated by radionuclide imaging other forms of imaging or diagnosed by other means. This category infers a mechanical disorder of the joint.