“Experts” have a lot of ideas about pelvic tilt — a problem that occurs when your pelvis tips too far backward or forward. Yet, the one thing all of them agree on is that everyone else has it all wrong!
On a recent video, I shared the “advice” of an Australian trainer who felt there was so much information about anterior pelvic tilt, he had to set the record straight. Any CHEK Practitioner who watches this video would be very saddened by all of the misleading information being shared.
What this trainer gets wrong about the pelvic tilt and other anatomy in the human body:
- How does he know if the problem is a posterior and anterior pelvic tilt without measuring it?
- There is a triangular relationship in the spine between the discs and the facet joints. A client with an anterior pelvic tilt will put too much load on their facet joints (because it closes them). Anyone who experiences anterior pelvic tilt overloads the facet joint which leads to inflammation, degradation, facet joint hypertrophy and so much more.
- There are three things the joints in your body doesn’t like: Compression, torsion and shear. When your muscular system is out of balance, your joint will load too often, leading to ligament and cartilage problems, labral tears, inflammation and many avoidable visits to your doctor, chiropractic or physical therapist.
- Most people have tonic phasic muscle imbalances due to overuse, abuse, underuse or disuse of their bodies due to overtraining, undertraining and training.
- All of your body’s glands and organs borrow sensory fibers from the muscular system. This is exactly why, when people suffer from a heart attack, they will tell the ER doctor that the pain starts in the left chest and radiates down from their left arm. The heart shares its sensory nerve endings from the musculoskeletal distribution that feeds the chest and arm.
- If you’re experiencing inflammation in your organs, this inhibits the abdominal wall. Depending on which organ is inflamed will determine which muscles are involved. You can easily develop anterior or posterior pelvic tilt depending on which organs or glands are reacting in certain muscles.
Check out my video which goes into more details about pelvic tilt and how that triggers all sorts of problems throughout your body!
Love and chi,
Paul
