If you've been told your sacroiliac joint is "just inflamed" or "out of alignment" and left with a stretching sheet and a follow-up appointment in six weeks, you're not imagining that something is missing.

If you're reading this, there's a good chance someone in your life—often a thin, elderly woman, sometimes after several pregnancies decades ago—has just been told they have, or might have, an obturator hernia.