Left side hip much lower than right

Try putting both shoes on. That should even out your hips.

holy shit man, you are right. 6 damn years running with one shoe on and I never thought of that.

anyone at all

egoscue method

It's unclear from your post whether your chiro thinks that your problem is structural (one leg is really shorter than the other) or functional (the legs are in fact the same length in terms of bone, but one is aligned wrong, making it appear shorter and thus your hips look uneven). If it's the former, you're stuck with the heel lift and not much can be done, but if it's the latter, active release therapy might really help you. Look for an ART specialist in your area. Realignment in concert with lots of strength exercise is the way to go. There's no shortcut.

Apparently my chiro doesn't know why I have a leg length issue. What I can tell you is that my abs/psoas are super tightas with my left Hip/SI joint area. He said today " I guess you may have to quit running" unreal

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The pelvis has two ways in which it can adjust up and down, side to side - that is through the SI joint which allows for a figure 8 adjustment, and through the pubic bones, which allows for adjustment. The ankle and knee have another certain degree of variance in which they can adjust.

So if you have two hips that are not level it can be pelvic and back muscles,it can be quadratus lumborum, it can be obliques and rib muscles, it could be knee, it could be foot and ankle....

You may have a tightened psoas, but that does not mean the psoas is the culprit - the illiopsoas usually tries to adjust for differences in hip motion.

I think you don't need this chiropractor. Have you checked the egoscue site? I don't know how an ART release practioner is going to figure out what is causing the discrepency, most 98% sure would probably were not born with two legs different in length - unless you suffered some major injury to the femur or tibia.

I have looked at the egoscue site. I did the exercises the past 2 days. When I bend over to touch toes and look in mirror I can see a pretty drastic lower left side. This is really causing a problem with my opposite side (simialr symptoms as the loss of coordination thread). I just can't get this right.

if your left side is appear lower it is probably because your right side is too high . Left lower - look for TFL, hip flexor contractions, adductor magnus, Right Higher - look for back and quadratus lumborum being higher, shoulder - trapezius are higher?

With the egoscue, a supine groin stretch is quite possibly going to help level this. You need to stay on each side for 15 minutes. and you need someone to look and see if your head is going one side or the other, if the scapula's are aligning in the back, does one leg come to the center more than the other (back view) and are the arches the same.

I can't fix you, but I get I can tell "where" it is coming from. I seriously doubt your femurs are different lengths. They are sitting in their socket differently based on what muscle groups are pulling them in that direction.

This whole time I was thinking I needed to raise my left side maybe I need to stretch lossen my right b/c it is too high.

do you have a good quadratus lumborum stretch

legally blond wrote:

a supine groin stretch is quite possibly going to help level this. You need to stay on each side for 15 minutes. and you need someone to look and see if your head is going one side or the other, if the scapula's are aligning in the back, does one leg come to the center more than the other (back view) and are the arches the same.

I've been doing the supine groin stretch for almost a month and never thought about checking all that stuff. I just lay down and try to keep the leg that's on the floor straight as well as my torso. Are you saying that if I find that my head and shoulders have a tendency to go to one side, I should force it to be as close to the middle as possible during the stretch?

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any twist, half-lord of the fishes, laying down twist - keep shoulder anchored on the floor.

my cut and paste isn't working right now - so I cannot attach a picture of these

the QL will raise the hip, the back extensors and the latisimmus dorsi also can raise the hip.

thank yoiu