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  Recently, a woman came to my chiropractor to test her back pain and asked, "Is my hip twisted?" She felt a weight on one side of her. Her masseuse and tailor hemmed her dresses and skirts said that one of her hips was higher than the other. if it was due to a misalignment issue. Oftentimes, a person's pelvis can become misaligned, causing pain in a joint of the pelvis called the sacroiliac (SI) joint . This condition can be improved with safe and gentle chiropractic care. This article discusses pelvic alignment, sacroiliac joint pain, and correction of the SI joint . disorders with chiropractic care. Let's start by describing the anatomy of the pelvis and the sacroiliac joint. There is no single large bone that makes up the pelvic region of our body. This area is actually made up of three separate bones. They are the two outer wing bones called pelvic bones, and the central coccyx called the sacrum. The sacroiliac joint is located between the pelvis and the sac...

  Recently, a patient complaining of pain in his right hip asked if it was because one leg was shorter than the other. She said her tailor had told her for years that hemming her dresses and trousers would make her legs bumpy. She has been practicing chiropractic for 37 years and has had many similar requests. This article discusses the link between leg length discrepancies and hip pain. When discussing leg length discrepancies, it is useful to know that there are two types of her, functional and structural . A structural inequality occurs when bones grow to different lengths. , this will occur when a bone on one leg is actually shorter than that of the other leg. A functional inequality happens when one leg appears to be shorter than the other due to an imbalance in the lower body . Many times, this occurs when the pelvis is out of alignment. When I test a patient for hip pain, I always have them stand facing toward me so that I can observe if the crests of the pelvis are level ...