Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation Helps Relieve Hip/Glute Pain (GOIC)
So you have pain in the rearend, gluteus, hip area? Everyone describes this pain with a variety of terminology, even doctors and researchers! This pain is not all that unusual for sciatic and back pain sufferers. Gluteal pain that just won’t go away – a “toothache in the butt” – is more renowned nowadays as its own concern often related to irritation of the sciatic nerve. Your Carrolltown chiropractor at Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation is quite experienced in the irritation of the sciatic nerve and its chiropractic care relief.
ANATOMY
There are many intersecting structures in the area of this gluteal/hip pain! The gemelli muscles lie in the posterior hip area. Along with the obturator internus, piriformis, and quadratus femoris muscles, the gemelli muscles were viewed as allowing external rotation of the thigh. (1) A cadaver and live volunteer study of the sciatic nerve during hip rotation documented that during passive hip rotation, the sciatic nerve is very much related to the gemelli-obturator internus complex, curving throughout passive internal rotation and relaxing during external hip rotation. (2) In an ultrasound study of the motions of gluteal and subgluteal muscles, researchers documented that passive movements of hip rotation and isometric contraction of muscles impacted the sciatic nerve in the subgluteal space. They proposed that these passive movements may well affect the sciatic nerve, triggering retrotrochanteric pain in the gluteus. (3) Your Carrolltown chiropractor sees how anatomy shapes how pain is senses every day!
ANATOMY AND PAIN: The Sciatic Nerve
Right in the heart of|In the center of all these gluteal muscles is the sciatic nerve that runs from the spine to the toes. Back in 2009, an early description of sciatic nerve compression presented how endometriosis, abscess, tumor, adjoining uterus, piriformis syndrome and newly presented sciatic neuropathy as a result of compression of the sciatic nerve by obturator internus tendon and muscle may well be causes for sciatic pain. (4) Even earlier, in 2005, a chiropractic radiologist/clinician and a chiropractic anatomist correlated the clinical presentation of deep gluteal, sciatica-like pain in back pain patients with continual aching pain in the retrotrochanteric area of the hip and upper posterolateral thigh. The anatomist illustrated how the structures in this area included the gemelli-obturator internus muscle complex and related bursae. (5) Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation notes how tight an area it is for everything to fit!
TERMINOLOGY
A review of just what is published about deep gluteal syndrome – pain in the gluteus – stated that deep gluteal syndrome has been more conveyed in the medical literature recently but named in a variety of ways: piriformis syndrome, gemelli-obturator internus syndrome, ischiofemoral impingement syndrome, proximal hamstring syndrome. Reviewers defined this deep gluteal syndrome as posterior hip pain as a result of nerve entrapment beyond the piriformis syndrome which can be caused by nerve entrapment. If not pathological, the nerve entrapment of deep gluteal syndrome may well beb conservatively treated. (6) Medical conservative and Carrolltown chiropractic conservative each offer different options. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation can help.
CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT OPTIONS
Conservative treatment is usually first before any more invasive treatments. Medical approaches were enumberated as rest, avoiding irritating movements, taking meds, receiving injections, or undergoing physiotherapy. Surgery may be done for patients with recurrent or persistent symptoms after conservative care. (6) Chiropractors like your Carrolltown chiropractor offer conservative care effectively for most. The clinician-author explained conservative treatment as goading of the bursa/sciatic nerve/muscle area – referred to as the GOIC (gemelli obturator internus complex) area – along with Cox® Technic flexion distraction decompression of the lumbar spine L5S1 area to relieve irritation of the sciatic nerve. (5) Relief is often forthcoming for Carrolltown chiropractic patients with this method.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Clint Dickason on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes the relief with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Schedule your Carrolltown chiropractic appointment today. The gluteal/butt/hip pain – regardless of its name – may find its relief at last!
