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
Would love to read further about this issue. Do you have any references that I can read more about this issue. Sounds exactly like what I have been dealing with. Thanks!
Hi Diana, I learned about this issue from Dr. Rosita Arvigo. Are you looking for research on epiphyseal injury? If so, a PubMed search will have a few studies on sacral epiphyseal injury, but it may not be as recognized, outside of being related to serious spinal malfunctions.
I think this is happening to me. I fell on my tailbone when I was around age 13 – it really hurt me, I could barely walk for a week. Nothing was ever done about it. But I suspect this is the reason why I had lots of troubles birthing my babies in the traditional “on the back” position – much easier to birth when I was on my side.
Now, I am in the peri-menopause phase and I am experiencing more and more low back pain. I am sure tight hip flexors, and other lower leg tightness, is to blame, but what if the damage to my sacrum is making things worse??!
What are some exercises/stretches you could suggest? Or is it mostly deep tissue massage like you said in the video?
Hi Cori,
I usually recommend the Healthy Pelvis download It’s under $20 and it would take me several hours to teach someone everything that’s in there, so it’s an economical way to get started. Then after watching it and working on the exercises, I would reach out to one of the Nutritious Movement™ Restorative Exercise Specialist if you need fine tuning or have questions. So I would do that along with seeing a Visceral Manipulation™ practitioner who has completed VM3. There are some techniques they can do that work with restrictions in the bone itself. The Arvigo® work is wonderful as well.
You may also want to consider castor oil packs on your sacrum.
I hope this helps. Best of luck to you.