Millions suffer from chronic low back pain. What most people don't know is that the sacroiliac joint is the actual source of pain in up to 22% of these cases, and that surgery can provide a cure.Most doctors and surgeons are not trained to check the sacroiliac joint as a source of pain during a routine examination for back pain.Additional facts are: - Diagnosing and surgically treating chronic sacroiliac joint pain are not currently taught in medical schools, surgical residency programs or spine surgery fellowships.- Despite this thousands of sacroiliac joint fusions are being performed annually for pain with this number only escalating each year.This book explains why and how these opposing facts can exist in America today, and how patients with chronic low back pain can be educated and proactive in order to find the best appropriate and permanent relief for their condition.We are currently in an "opioid crisis" in our country and in the world. Every time the diagnosis of Sacroiliac Joint Pain is ignored or missedsets the stage for increased narcotic use to give short term relief for that untreated pain. From my own experience in evaluating hundreds of such patients, untreated Sacroiliac Joint Pain is certainly a contributor to this crisis.Very soon the term "Sacroiliac Joint Pain" will be as commonly used and understood as the "herniated disc", "malalignment", and "muscle ache" arefor low back pain today. If you are a sufferer from chronic low back pain that has not been diagnosed, is not responding to conservative treatments, or youhave had a failed back surgery and still having the same old pain, this book is for you. If you are an orthopedic spine surgeon, a neurosurgeon, a primary care doctor or someone who treats low back pain you need to know what is in this book before your patients do, so you can properly diagnose this condition and make sure they get the treatment they deserve.This is the first book to offer a brand new understanding and approach to chronic low back pain that has plagued humans for millenniums and provide steps to obtain a definitive cure. It is a paradigm changer! Dr. Dall has placed a very human face on a real medical problem that has for too long been ignored and undertreated. In doing so, he is eminently qualified to author this book.Among the handful of us who believed the sacroiliac joint caused pain and that this pain could be treated, he was the first to successfully publish his resultsand findings in a respected research journal. This must be considered a major accomplishment.With his research and this book, Dr. Dall has played a significant role in getting the medical world back on track after losing its way for nearly 90 years.Michael R. Moore, MD
About the Author: Bruce Dall was born in South Omaha. He attended the University of Nebraska Medical Center, Michigan State University's affiliated orthopedic residency program and Southern Illinois University's spine fellowship. He became an orthopedic spinal surgeon in 1985 and began his practice at Borgess Medical Center in Kalamazoo, Michigan. As a young, highly educated, but by his own admission, a yet naive surgeon who expected to have all the answers, Dr. Dall soon realized he, along with his peers, knew little to nothing about how the sacroiliac joint related to chronic back pain, as it was not receiving any attention from the medical education establishment. He also learned that countless patients were suffering from chronic back pain which traditional treatments often failed to relieve. He then began a quest for answers about how to diagnose and treat chronic sacroiliac joint problems, now proven to be a prime generator for back pain. Dr. Dall's research and self-training led him to literally create his own treatments, including surgery, for patients whose suffering from chronic sacroiliac joint pain had not been relieved by antiquated and poorly understood textbook methods. The sources for this book include Dr. Dall's thirty years' experience in the diagnosis and treatment of hundreds of patients with chronic sacroiliac joint pain, as well as the shared experiences of several colleagues, laboratory research, and a century's worth of literature on the subject of fusing the sacroiliac joints together when all other treatment methods failed. He has published several clinical studies on long-term outcomes from surgeries. Currently, Dr. Dall is an Associate Professor at Western Michigan University School of Medicine. He is involved in ongoing clinical and laboratory research on the sacroiliac joint, and continues to write on the subject for medical professionals and those suffering from chronic sacroiliac joint pain.