Waarom is dit gebied zo belangrijk?

• Overgang van beweeglijke lumbale wervelkolom naar het weinig beweeglijke bekken
• Overgang van stabiele bekken naar holle lumbale wervelkolom
• Belangrijke aanhechtingsplaats van spieren en ligamenten.
• Het gebied is een belangrijke verzamelplaats van bloedvaten, zenuwen en lymfevaten.
• In de LSO komt veel afwijking voor. Ze zijn vaak erfelijk (sacralisaties of lumbalisatie) of traumatisch (spondylolitis, spondilosis) Deze zijn vaak moeilijk te onderscheiden van functionele letsels zoals impressie op de durale structuren tgv ouderdom en structurele letsels van de intervertebrale disci.
• Sacro-iliacale disfuncties leveren vaak ook een twijfelachtige diagnose.

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