How common is SIJD?
In 1992 at the First World Congress on the Sacroiliac Joint Dr. Joseph Shaw of the Topeka Bank and Neck Pain Clinic reported that in a series of 1000 consecutive patients he examined for low back pain (LBP) and SIJ he found that 98% had an SIJ problem. When he addressed that problem his surgical incidence for herniated disks dropped to 0.2%. I spoke with him after the conference and by then he had seen 2000 cases with still the same stats. The problem with Shaw’s stats is that they are so good that they seem outrageous. Don’t get me wrong, because I believe he is right on the money. The problem is that the ‘experts’ that are reporting low percentages of SIJD simply cannot believe his results and will not examine the evidence, but if they had done what he did they would have found what he found. Here is the mind blower. In 1982 the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons met in Toronto specifically to address LBP. They established criteria for testing and for the interpretation of thos
