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Investigators report that a simple bedside manual therapy to correct a painful misaligned sacroiliac joint was highly successful in a group of 45 patients 10 to 20 years of age. Thirty-six patients (80 percent) obtained significant pain relief, whereas nine patients (20 percent) experienced minimal to no relief. In 24 patients (53 percent) complete resolution of pain was experienced immediately upon treatment. Only two patients required a second treatment because of symptom recurrence. These findings are reported in a new article, “Sacroiliac joint pain in the pediatric population. Clinical article,” by Stoev and colleagues, published in the June 2012 issue of the Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics, now online.
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