The Necessary Addiction Behind Your Mashing, Rolling, and Poking.

Your Psoas and QL are not juvenile delinquents that need to beat with a club and receive 1999 Motorola Razors for Christmas. Muscles just do the job you give them. They take when they have leverage and they get long when they are wrenched out of position. Your tendons hop along for the ride, yet, many think you need to beat them into submission because they are not allowing you to look cool in front of your friends. These therapists search and they destroy. Not exactly who I want touching my body, let alone my psoas. Eeeek.

Let’s take some Fictious Brittany who walks into chiropractic clinic. She is dealing with a ton of back pain on the right side, but is not thoroughly evaluated. The really bad and very unprofessional chiro who is trained in ART says, “your psoas and QL are way too tight we need to take care of these motha$%#*ers,” He proceeds to scrap the paint off of her Psoas and QL, maybe he even cracks some stuff and sends her on her merry way. Brittany feels better and can do what she loves for an hour, a day, maybe even a weak, but the Psoas and QL tighten up again, possibly even worse and no matter what they are inevitably going to start “misbehaving.” Why????

Because no one ever thought to test or critically ask what position Fictious Brittany was in?

Think about it. If Brittany’s pelvis is oriented to the right in a state of extension, adduction, and internal rotation and thus the spine is flexed, rotated, and sidebending to the right, this is the exact position that is going to cause the aforementioned muscles to lock up the right side of her back.

The position looks like this…

How common is this position?

This dominant right stance pattern is found in every single human being with a liver on their right side. Wait a minute – that’s you.

So before you start swearing and beating up muscles, think – what position am I in? Because this position is causing innocent muscles to get short or long and the best way to really cut them some slack and ease your pain for good is to teach you how to get back and maintain a neutral stance so that everybody can just settle down and concentrate on kicking ass and taking names as a cohesive unit.

Thanks,

Ben

*** We spent the majority of last week with some of the best PTs and Chiros in North America. They appreciate that soft tissue work can relieve pain and accelerate the healing process, but most importantly they understand that without addressing positioning they are just banging their head against the wall and giving their patient temporary and very treatment dependent relief.