How I fixed my SI joint pain
TTT I will share with you what I did to recover from my SI joint pain. I am not claiming I know anything more than the average joe on this stuff but it was my experience and I did not find many successes so I will share my story.
In the dark times (before I read SS) I pulled one side of my lower back/glute. I didnt know till the next day when I was walking around like a grandpa. I more or less waited for it to go away. I did not really train or knew what to do about it hence the dark times.
When It started feeling better I began SS and the pain kind of came slightly but I worked through it thinking that if I strengthen it it would be fine. Not a good idea. A good quote I have seen on here is let pain be your guide. I did not and started to do harder workouts and the pain would increase. I would reset my weights and it would lessen and once I started going heavy it would increase. This stupid vicious cycle repeated itself a couple times and pulled my groin in there squatting.
So I decided to see a doc. The general practice doc just threw some anti-inflammatory meds at me and they helped but were no solution. Went to go see a sports medicine doctor and he told me my SI joints were structurally fine but they were out of line. He liked SS and just wanted me to throw more ab work into it at the end. That worked to some extent and then I went to see a chiropractor. He did the x-ray deal and it turns out I had some out of line vertebrae and "catywompus" hips (he actually used that term). So he popped my back a couple times and that only worked so much.
It turns out I came into training with a muscle imbalance and I kept training and cheating reinforcing my muscle imbalance. This happened because I was corkscrewing in the hole and favoring my stronger leg and not knowing because I had been doing it for so long. It was more pronounced in the heavier sets. I did not notice this until I did some light front squats and could see the apparent shift.
WARNING:This may be considered blasphemous for this forum. The way I corrected my muscle imbalance was to do a couple minutes on the bike instead of heavy leg lifts to break down my legs. This combined with chiro and muscle relaxers made my back pain go away.
Edit: oh yea I forgot besides cycle and do presses for upper body I did ab work and reverse hypers
Moral: So start back out super light. Make sure you don't get greedy and add to much because you feeling a little better because you did way more weight before. Use perfect form. Maybe switch up to front squats so you aren't tempted to go heavy and whatever you do don't train through the pain. Its what worked for me take it or leave it.
