The hip bone's connected to the thigh bone

[pantryslut]

Or, I think they call this 'holistic' for a reason...

As many of you know, my feet are a little fucked up. I am duck-toed, I have high arches, and I have a lot of weight and a large frame sitting on a pair of medium-sized tootsies. I used to suffer from acute ankle pain a lot, the kind where I got really good at wrapping elastic bandages around myself. I currently have plantar fasciitis. I love my feet, but, dang.

The doctor I had in high school and college told me once that if I didn't attend assiduously to the health of my feet, that eventually I would have problems in my knees, and then my hips, lower back...

And sure enough, I had a bum knee for a while, too.

He never told me about my shoulder, though.

But lo! According to my chiropractor, apparently a large part of my shoulder pain can be traced to a certain twist in my posture. I carry my right hip wrong--tilted forward. This puts strain on my shoulder. I can totally feel what he's talking about, too.

And I can also feel it all the way down my legs, into my knees and my feet.

Sigh.

(ObJoke: When I said I was twisted, this is not what I meant.)

Comments

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

my left hip gives me trouble, and i am *certain* it's because of my bad knees. i thought for a while that i had arthritis in my hip, too, and i can stand knowing that i'm up for three or four more knee replacements in my life, but adding hip replacements on top of it makes me want to cry.

[irontongue.livejournal.com]

Ow ow ow. Wondering if Pilates, Alexander, or some other holistic movement/alignment modality might help.

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

I've been given some exercises that seem to be helping, slowly.