Gait Abnormalities

This post is inspired by quite a few patients I’ve had in recently with what they think is sciatic nerve pain or SI joint dysfunction, and it’s actually myofascial and trigger point referral pain from primarily the gluteus medius and gluteus minimus. I even had a patient in who kept being told by a previous doctor that her SI joints were out of place and needed to continually be adjusted (this was not true). Trigger point related referral pain from the muscles in the hip can mimic both sciatica,