S/I Pain in Standing Poses
Greater Baltimore Yoga Blog
Last night, I had a student who asked why warrior pose hurt his back. When he spread his legs wide, pressed more through his heels, He reported a pain in the back of his pelvis. I discovered that he had a sacro-ilial compression caused by sacral outflare. This means that when ever anyone rotates their leg outward [external rotation], the ilium [side of pelvis] has to move along with the leg in what is called outflare. The problem is that the ilium can compress and irritate the S/I joint on the back/ side of the pelvis. So, when he squeezed his front hip bones [ASIS] towards each other, the outflare was reduced by a inflare movement. He then could roll his legs out in external rotation as necessary in Warrior pose II, as long as he squeezed his hip bones together.
Another common compression problem is sacral compression from too much ilial anterior torsion [tilting pelvis forward too much relative to the spine].
Any comments? Review my article on Sacro-ilial compression problems.
Stan
posted by Greater Baltimore Yoga @ 2:57 PM
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3 Comments:
For a long time, Western medicine did not recognize the 5 to 10 millimeters of movement in the S/I joint, as it was not statistically significant with the level of measurement they had available. When you inflare your ilium, the whole inner spiral pattern of the lower extremity is facilitated [or vice versa], hence the peroneal muscles activate the lift of the outer arch of the foot and the ground of the ball of the big toe. This inner spiral movement is balanced by the outer spiral's outer heel grounding.
The cranial plates have subtle movement, but ask a cranial-sacral therapist if they move.
Even thought the movement is subtle, there is a relative opening or gapping of the S/I in forward bending, inner spiral patterns. There is a compressing or closing in backbending and outer spiral movements. It is a question of the degree of compression, to whether the compression is stabilizing or inflammatory.
Carol, thanks for the great comment.
And finally, you answered your own last question. By virtue of the design of joints,there is movement, it is just a question of degree.
The excellent answer, I congratulate
When practicing this inflare movement in Warrior II I felt an engagement of the peroneus, and outer heel/inner toe connection in the bent leg as well.
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