facial symmetry it definitely influences attractiveness but it can really give us
clues about where our head and neck posture has gone wrong stay tuned this
is an interesting episode hello posture lovers welcome to week six
of posturing 101 where every Wednesday afternoon I'll be sharing one of your
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question so let's jump straight into this week's question from Carlos Galaviz
I hope I've said that right Carlos hello my name is Carlos Galaviz
I'm watching a youtube video of yours on how to fix facial asymmetry I've been
noticing some asymmetry on my face I have an issue with photographs could you
give me an honest opinion on it can you tell me if you see asymmetry and if so
what would your recommendations be to fix it thank you in advance Carlos
that's a great question so obviously Carlos you're a
nice-looking man like most of us though we care about our appearance and we want
to feel and look attractive so what do you think is his face symmetrical what
do you notice take a moment here because there are five asymmetries to be found
in his face so most people would never notice this Carlos
don't worry but as your posture doctor it's my job to notice and relate these
asymmetries back to your posture and health so how many have you found so as
you can see here there are five different asymmetries number one there's
a lower eyebrow that suggests that the sphenoid bone of the cranium has slipped
or dropped down I used to see this a lot in private practice treating babies who
had been delivered by forceps and the force of the forceps lands right on the
sphenoid bone now adults with facial asymmetry here like Carlos
they might have chronic headaches muzzy head vertigo number two you notice
there's a smaller eye on one side now this could be from the dropped sphenoid or
from a past trauma so take a look so take a look at this picture of me you
can clearly see the difference in size of my eyes right to left in fact when I
was 10 years old I was hit in the head with a baseball bat there was blood
everywhere my father came running to get me to the hospital and I needed eight
stitches so trauma is a very real cause of asymmetry in the eyes now I've had a
lot of craniosacral therapy and chiropractic over the years which helped
to rid me of the chronic headaches that developed in my early 20s from I believe
this problem with my cranium so number three notice you can hardly see Carlos's
earlobe so if you were to look in the mirror right now go ahead and try this
if you slightly turn your head to one side the earlobe or the ear disappears
so if Carlos had seen this in just one picture maybe we'd say it was just a
funny position but because he's seeing this in every picture that he takes
I'd say he's not just holding himself in an unusual way
but he's obviously got a structural or rotational issue a twisting problem in
the neck now number four notice that his lip line drops down to one side now
I think this is more to do with the fact that number five the chin or mandible
bone the jaw bone is uneven so maybe he has clicking on one side of the jaw or
headaches or grinding or clenching or ringing in the ears known as tinnitus
this is likely a past trauma whether or not Carlos remembers it and suggests a
TMJ problem an issue with the jaw the temporal mandibular joint TMJ so what
should Carlos do number one definitely see a dentist for clenching grinding and
TMJ dysfunction number two as I have done
see a cranialsacral therapist they can work on the cranial bones and the
asymmetries so even though you probably won't see a visual change in the facial
symmetry because our skull the sutures fused by about age one but you will
still get relief from chronic problems like headaches dizziness vertigo and jaw
pain if they're caused from a cranial asymmetry and number three see a
chiropractor for all those structural issues in the neck so this will
dramatically alter the symmetry problems so if you've got tilting or shifting or
twisting in the neck and you can see that when you look in the mirror that a
chiropractor can really really help with if like Carlos you've got one ear you
can't see as well or one ear is lower then you too have structural changes in
the head and neck and you'll find 12 different head and neck exercises in my
free posture crash course and I'll give you a link to that in just a moment so
keep watching for those of you meeting me for the first time i'm dr. paula
moore the online posture doctor and I've been helping people correct their
posture for 20 years now as your posture doctor I'm not here to highlight
your pain and symptoms but to focus on the inside of your body the alignment of
your spine in other words the root cause of your problems now get ready to enroll
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a link to the free posture crash course in the description below if you're
watching on YouTube don't forget to tune in next week because I'm answering
Denise Pyett's question about whether or not forward head posture is causing
the ringing in her ears known as tinnitus yep it's going to be a good one
thank you so much for watching today and I'll see you all again next week bye bye for now