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Lateralizing lower back pain is common and most often classified as non-specific lower back pain. Intervertebral disk disease has been ascribed as one of the causes in approximately 15% of cases with 85% being labeled as non-specific lower back pain. A significant literature has found that approximately 25% of non-specific lower back pain is due to dysfunction of the sacroiliac joints. This is unfortunately poorly recognized by the medical community, although significant gains in treatment for the condition have been made in the last 20 years. Most importantly, scintigraphy is the principal diagnostic modality for the condition.
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Saunders, J., Hungerford, B. (2023). Mechanical Dysfunction of the Sacroiliac Joint. In: Van den Wyngaert, T., Gnanasegaran, G., Strobel, K. (eds) Clinical Atlas of Bone SPECT/CT. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26449-8_156
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