Health Organization for Pudendal Education

HerMajesty wrote:The pelvis is the kinetic center of the body so a problem there will usually result in a compensation further up. We were just discussing this in another thread regarding the jaw, but it effected my neck the most; and might affect any part of the back.
The mechanism is that your primary reflex is to keep your eyes on a level plane and keep you walking forward in a straight line. If the pelvis is twisted, you are not going to lean sideways or walk diagonally as a result. Instead you are going to compensate someplace else in the body. So, if for example the pelvic twists right, a vertebral facet or some other structure will twist left further up to compensate. As I said in my case, my neck locked up, and once a chriopractor looked at it and said i must have been born with forceps or been in a car wreck (neither one of those things actually happened), and he did a couple of adjustments which made my neck more flexible. That week I began to get low back pain i had never had before. So i stopped seeing the chiro, and gradually the neck stiffened up, which I was used to, and the back got better. Point being, when my body was denied the option to compensate in the neck, it just picked another spot which I liked even less. When I got my pelvis fixed, the neck loosened up spontaneously without manipulation.
The speacialty that deals with this is PT Manual Therapy, and PT's in various fields pursue Manual Therapy training in regards to the pelvis; but if you don't have a local pelvic floor PT who knows how to correct SIJD, in my experience Sports PT's are the #1 specialty that pursues pelvic Manual Therapy training. There are actually a limited number of practitioners who are really good at this. So if your own PT can't fix it, you might have some detective work ahead of you to locate somebody who can.