Sacroiliac joint disease is inflammation or injury of the joint capsule, ligaments, or subchondral bone in the SI joint. About 15 to 25% of reported back pain is caused by pain in the sacroiliac joint. For some patients, the pain it causes can be severely debilitating, but it is a condition that is challenging to diagnose and treat.
Because back pain can be the result of a variety of conditions and there are no objective radiographic or objective examinations to diagnose SI joint diseases, physicians rely on certain clinical maneuvers and “diagnostic” injections to determine the cause of a patient’s back pain.
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