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    Re: some symmetry issues

    Quote Originally Posted by cam474 View Post
    Hello,
    Your left pelvis may be anteriorly rotated. Use muscle energy technique to rotate it posteriorly. This may correct the 1cm leg length.
    You appear to have a sway back.
    Elongated and weak are hip flexors,external obliques,upper back extensors,neck flexors.
    Short and stong:hamstrings, upper fibres of internal oblique, lumbar paraspinal muscles (not short)

    This is taken from Neuromusculoskeletal examination and assessment by Petty and Moore page 41.
    Once the shoulder blade is corrected then do some rotator cuff muscle strengthening.
    Do mostly external rotation (teres minor and infraspinatus)You can use theraband to resist the movement.
    Some internal rotation (subscapularis)but this may be strong due to press ups.

    Try standing against a wall, pull in your core muscle and bend your knees slightly. You can check your pelvis level in this position also(ie left and right)
    This position must not be forced but used as a guide to correcting the sway back.Also tight muscles such as hamstrings would need stretching etc.
    Let me know how you get on!
    Good luck!
    cam474
    But shouldn't it be
    "Short and strong are hip flexors,external obliques,upper back extensors,neck flexors.
    Elongated and weak :hamstrings, upper fibres of internal oblique, lumbar paraspinal muscles (not short)"
    instead?


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    Re: some symmetry issues

    Yes, to correct the sway back it would need to be short and strong hip flexors etc.as you mentioned.
    In my post those are symptoms of sway back, so to correct it would be the opposite.



 
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