Do you have buttock pain? If so, I'm going to tell you what could be causing it and some things that you could do to treat it. Some back pain can come from the glute muscles themselves.
One of these is myofascial pain syndrome. Where the large glute, muscles such as the glute max and glute meed can have trigger points that cause pain in the glute area. Trigger point release, muscle stretching, and muscle strengthening can be really helpful to help treat this.
Piriformis syndrome is when your piriformis muscle, which lies deep in the glute max and glute meed, can become irritated, tight, or even spasm. This can put pressure on the sciatic nerve and even cause sciatica like symptoms. Stretching and flexibility work to the piriformis can be really helpful to relieve this.
Ischial bursitis is when you get inflammation of the ischial bursa, which is a fluid filled sac that sits in between the hamstring tendons and your seat bones. This can become irritated if you have a hamstring tendon injury or if you have to spend prolonged amounts of time sitting. Modifying your activities and strengthening and stretching your hamstrings can be helpful to help treat this.
Ischialfemoral impingement is an abnormal contact between the top part of your femur and your sit bone. This can cause pain when you're walking and moving, and can be treated by stretching, strengthening, and improving the coordination of your hip.
A rare case is having a stress fracture of your pelvic bone, and this is more common in really active individuals or people who are training at a very high intensity.
There are also things in your pelvic area that can contribute to gluteal pain or buttock pain. One of these is coccydynia, which is pain of the tailbone or coccyx. This will usually cause midline pain along the buttock, and is worse when you're sitting or going from a sitting to standing position. Stretching and strengthening exercises for the pelvic and glute region can be really helpful in relieving this.
Pelvic floor dysfunction is more common in women or cyclists, and can be caused by overactive or underactive pelvic muscles that can refer pain into the glute region, pelvic region, even upper thigh. Physical therapy can help determine if you need to get these muscles more flexible or help improve the strength of this region.
Endometriosis is a condition that women get where uterine tissue grows outside the womb and can become painful during menstruation. This can cause pain in the lower abdomen, glute region, or low back.
Finally, sciatica pain, which is pain that's coming from low lumbar segments can cause referred pain into the glute region and even referred pain down the leg. This can be treated well with physical therapy to help improve your back pain to motion strength and stretch your hip muscles and improve the overall function of your lumbopelvic region.
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