Understanding the causes of back, neck and jaw pain.

In order to understand what causes back, neck and even jaw pain, we will need to see exactly what we look like on the inside. The crucial relationship of our pelvic bones, sacrum( tailbone) and spine.

Most of us are walking around with a slight mis-alignment in the pelvic girdle. This means that the 2 large pelvic bones are either twisted on each other, or one is actually a bit higher than the other (up-slipped)

Below is what our spine looks like: The 2 large pelvic bones join in the middle at the front and then wrap around to the back where they join the sacrum or "tailbone" on either side. Those places are called sacro-iliac joints - I am sure you have heard that term and wondered what it meant!


In both these pictures,
there is symmetry between the two halves of the pelvis and the spine.












So what happens when one side of the pelvis twists on the other?
It is called a torque and it looks like this:

It results in an incorrect positioning of the tailbone and therefore a curving of the spine above, which is what is called scoliosis! >












Another problem that can cause a scoliosis is an upslip.
This is where one of the 2 large pelvic bones actually slips up higher than the other one

Can you see that the pelvic bone on the right is higher than the one on the left? This causes the sacrum  (tailbone) to pull to the right and that will cause the spine to begin a crooked ascent to your neck.  In order to make up for this the spine will do a compensatory curve the other way, so that you remain standing up straight....this then, is called scoliosis - a treatable condition!