Quote (Lil_Gueto @ 25 Jul 2016 01:02)
Anybody had any dealings with this?
I had an x ray of my spine last year due to some compression fractures in my spine and the dr said I also had some slight scoliosis.
I knew my body was uneven from pictures where my right shoulder is visibly lower than my left - this affects my bench (bar kinda goes slanted when I'm not focusing, scap is a little harder to retract on my left, and sometimes the right side of the bar clips when unracking).
As for my hips; my right foot is always more externally rotated, and sometimes I get lower back pain/tightness (right side).
Note: I also sleep kinda bad. Like a half side half stomach kinda deal.
Any ideas of stretching or soft tissue work? IT band, hip flexors etc?
Muscles to strengthen? Glutes, abs?
my body is fairly messed up so i have some general advice that you've probably considered by now.
first point is that you want to strength all of your muscles, not just some perceived "weak" area. the trick for the "weak" areas is just to figure out as much of your structural "abnormality" as possible so that you can find ways to "correct" for it in your form. That is, don't bend yourself to make your posture and your form picture-perfect; rather, change your form to suit your physiological (structural) state. if you lift like everyone else, you'll end up injured all the time.
my own deal: "the details of my childhood are quite inconsequential" ... my hips were off at birth. they still are, of course, but at the time i guess they could've been fixed. the proposals included a ton of painful operations and various forms of hormone therapy (not sure how that would've helped). instead, my parents opted early to let my body figure itself out. as a kid i walked normally but ran with my feet kicking out to the side. i noticed this because other kids said it looked weird. so i sprinted up hills often (around grades 2-4 but also later) because i thought it would develop my leg muscles and pull everything into place. it worked!
my right arm is longer than my left arm, and it's even more pronounced because, due to my hips being at a side tilt, my right arm also hangs lower (due to the shoulder dip caused my the hips being pulled). i have some scoliocis in the spine (going to the right, ofc) and of of my knees has patella femoral syndrome due to all of this stupid crap. hence knee discomfort, then an achilles injury, then a fracture in my right big toe, then ripping two ligaments in my left ankle. after a major concussion (nearly died), my spine and hip were injured. of course. and on sunday, i managed to slip a disc right where the biggest hematoma was from landing on my ass/hip where i was concussed.
anyway, the best tl;dr i can give here is this: find a good chiropractor. that is all. oh, and maybe a good osteopath, too
