What is the “side roll” that chiropractors shouldn do, and what does it do to the sacroiliac joint when performed?
You may be confusing two different techniques. The ‘Million Dollar Roll’ is done with the patient lying on his back, hips and knees flexed and rotating the trunk right and left. Loosens facets, but torques the disks. The most common chiropractic maneuver for SIJD is side-lying while the doc pulls back on the shoulder and shoves forward and down on the top of the pelvis. This shoves the front of the SIJ down at the S1 segment, and makes the S3 subluxation worse at the back of the SIJ. The pelvis needs to go down in the back to move the S3 segment of the SIJ down in back. The rolls are OK if you are careful, but the shoves will not only not correct the joint, but will make it more unstable by stretching the long posterior SI ligaments.
