Last week I wrote about a counterintutive - and most often the WORST - move to relieve SI Joint pain: stretching that paining area.

The majority of my clients (yours truly included) find that it is really helpful to understand WHY stretching doesn't quite work for SI pain.

Consider this:

While SI joint disorders are suuuuper - duper common in our day and age (there are a number of good reasons for that - and we will discuss those in great detail, along with simple ways to prevent / avoid common leading causes), the majority of SI joint dysfunction sufferers - at a whooping 85%  - are women.

Female pelvis is {obviously!} built quite differently than that of a male: women have a wider pelvis - so the fronts of the the hip joints are wider apart, potentially leading to more torsion through the wings (ilia) of the pelvis and sacrum.

SI joint in women is shallower than that of a man. Combine the wider pelvis and shallower SI joint and you can smell trouble brewing.

Add to that hormonal fluctuations softening the ligaments that stabilize the sacrum, and you can pretty much kiss your stability good bye.... unless....

Unless!

Nature is neither random nor stupid in her design, and female pelvis is one of many brilliant examples of that.

While women are blessed with wider hips and shallower SI joints, tension and torsion that may come from this design is nicely balanced by the strength of the muscles surrounding the pelvis. Trouble starts when those muscles forget what they are there to do....

So while the sacroiliac joints are complex, there are basic, simple strategies that YOU can implement to protect SI joints and recover your stability.

And this is what CORE RESTORE - SI JOINT workshop is all about.

We will start by learning the simple strategies to reduce existing compression, inflammation and pain symptoms. Understanding how to alleviate the discomfort  will allow us to focus on the active recovery work that - with regular practice - will not only increase your pelvic stability and ease, but help you feel at home in your body.