Week 8 LBP Part 3 (coccyx, hip, SI) Flashcards
What are two unusual but important cause of posterior pelvic pain?
Coccyx
Pelvic floor muscles
How do you adjust the coccyx?
- contact the base of the coccyx through the rectum or vaginal canal
- external adjustment A-P, slow traction distal
- you can also find trigger points in the pelvic floor and use ischemic compression
Where do patients feel pain if they have hip issues?
- low back pain
- groin pain (84%) (M/C location)
- buttock (79%)
- anterior thigh (59%)
- posterior thigh (43%)
- anterior knee (69%) (must ddx from knee lesions)
- shin (47%)
- calf (29%)
With hip issues, which muscles are often the first to go into spasm?
Adductors
What are some physical exam procedures for the hip? (9)
- Log roll screen (pain primary indicator)
- anvil test
- circumspection
- Patrick-Faber
- hip scouring
- limited and painful in internal rotation
- assess all active and passive ROM as well as key muscles (piriformis, iliopsoas, adductors, hip extensors and abductors)
- patient may stand leaning away from painful hip
- assess ROM and key muscles (piriformis, iliospoas, adductors, hip extensors, abductors)
What are some clues from the history for hip pain?
- pain may be aggravated by weight bearing
- may be associated with painful and limited internal rotation
- may have a limp
According to a 2004 study, what three findings are more often predictive of a hip disorder than a spine disorder
Presence of limp
Groin pain
Limited internal rotation
What is the ddx for lateral hip pain (4)? What are 2 non-hip causes?
- gluteus medius tendinopathy (NOT A STRAIN)
- ITB tendinopathy (causing pain by the hip instead of the knee)
- trochanter is bursitis (swollen and painful near greater trochanter)
- external snapping hip (ITB/glut max)
Non-hip causes?
- QL MFTP referral
- thoracolumbar syndrome
What causes external snapping hip?
ITB
Glut max
What are 3 signs for gluteus medius tendinopathy and what are the LR’s?
- Lateral hip pain with single leg stand <30 seconds (+LR 12.2)
- resisted Fader test (+LR 6.6)
- no tenderness with palpation of g med or g min insertions (-LR 0.43)
What is the ddx for anterior hip pain inside the hip (5)? What are 2 causes outside the capsule? What are 2 non-hip causes?
- hip OA
- FAI (femoroacetabular impingement)
- Labral tear
- AVN
- stress fracture
Outside the capsule
- adductor tear
- internal snapping hip (iliopsoas)
Not in the hip
- psoas MFTP referral
- femoral neuropathy
What is the ddx for posterior hip pain?
- femoralacetabular pathology (e.g. OA, labral tear, AVN)
- SI lesion
- hamstring tendinopathy
- piriformis lesion
- lumbar spine referral
SI is estimated to account for __% of chronic LBP
20% (13-33%)
What is the diagnostic pathway for the SI?
- Is the SI joint involved?(specific ortho tests)
- If so it is it a disease (sacroiliitis) or an injury?
- Where and how should I apply
manipulation? (static palpation & SI provocation tests) - are other joints involved? (Hip? Lumbosacral? Pubic symphysis?)
- are muscles involved? (Piriformis? Lower cross syndrome?)
What are causes of sacroiliItis?
An inflammatory arthropathy
- RA (rheumatoid factor, anti-ccp)
- seronegative spondylitis (negative for RF)
— ankylosing spondylitis
— Reiter’s syndrome
— psoriatic arthritis
— enteric arthritis (ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s disease)