Sacroiliac

[alophysio]

Hi Sarah,

There are some articles on Diane Lee's website which you should read. The one about the stork test and Active Straight Leg Raise is one in particular that will be helpful.

It sounds like your deep hip external rotators are too active. Who knows why. Karen is right when she suggests to stengthen the deep abdominals.

Having said all of that, it does sound like your LEFT SIJ is dysfunctional...it may be causing the right SIJ to anteriorly rotate because the movement is not coming from the left hip, SIJ and L/S. Thus the pelvis is rotating from the right SIJ...

Good luck!

[sarah001]

Hello there, thanks for your reply. My left side does tend to go into outflare and the right side goes inflare with anterior rotation too. I agree about my hip rotators, they hurt too but are refusing to release as the area is so unstable. I tried glute medius training but the medius just wouldn't respond and burnt when I tried to exercise it or the TFL completely took over instead so I'm struggling through basic core stability exercises right now. I find my transversus abs contraction is hit and miss right now, sometimes I get it right and other times I don't but I'm working on it! I have Diane Lee's book "The Pelvic Girdle" and it's very useful but my physio uses the stork test amongst others to check me regularly anyway.
Would the inflare/outflare situation cause the left side to rotate the right in hip extension do you think? I would have thought the outflare side would have had more extension than the inflare side but I'm not really sure.