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Sacroiliac Joint Pain Management
Dr. Yeong-Ray Wen provides an overview of interventional approaches for sacroiliac (SI) joint pain. He discusses etiology, anatomy, symptoms, and diagnostic procedures. Dr. Wen also describes the importance of conducting positive stress provocative tests and sacral lateral branch blocks due to the diagnostic usefulness of these approaches.
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He mentions conditions that mimic SI pain and red flags that help differentiate between SI joint pain and other serious conditions such as malignancy, immunosuppression, or a neurological loss of function. Furthermore, Dr. Wen presents treatment options such as physical therapy, osteopathic maneuvers, analgesics, intra-articular steroid injections, radiofrequency ablation, prolotherapy, and SI joint fusion.
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