Below you will find a video explanation of a cause of severe low back sacral pain. Major falls on the sacrum before age 25 can cause a shift in the growth plates that may haunt you many years later. This is often the cause of severe low back pain in the first six months of menopause.

An epiphyseal plate is a layer of cartilage, also known as a growth plate. “Sacral bodies unite at their adjacent margins after the twentieth year, but the central and greater part of each intevertebral disc remains unossified up to or beyond middle life.”- Gray’s Anatomy 40th addition ….yet another reason to not sit on your sacrum all day!

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Chronology of fusion of the primary and secondary ossification centers in the human sacrum and age estimation in child and adolescent skeletons. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24227049

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