Riddle me this: Someone has “tight” hamstrings, stretches diligently every day for a month, they come back to see you and their 90-90 hamstring test is exactly the same. What gives? Nerve tension is what gives. Nerve tension is more common than most people think, and most people aren’t even aware of it.
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What do people even mean when they say that? Did you just dislocate your hip? What the practitioner is referring to is the pelvic bones (left vs right) being slightly misaligned. Furthermore, they are implying if they fix that alignment, then your pain or symptoms will go away.
Many of you might not have any idea what I’m talking about and may never need to know. Diastasis Recti is the separation of the rectus abdominis (the 6 pack muscles). You know that line that goes down the middle of them? Well that gets thinned out and your abdominals get pulled sideways. Yup, that’s right you basically have a big hole in the middle of your stomach.
Back pain is the most common orthopedic problem in the USA. It has also been illustrated that radiographic findings (MRI/x-ray/CT scan) do not correlate to an individual's symptoms. This means that someone with a significant disc herniation identified by MRI may have no symptoms or very mild symptoms versus someone with a mild disc bulge might have burning pain down their leg, nerve weakness, and reflex changes. Why is that? Why do some people have symptoms extremely worse than others when on imaging it is the other way around? The answer has to do with 4 principles and their interplay: Load, Position, Nerve Tension, and Static Posture.