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- Hi folks, I'm Bob Schrupp, Physical Therapist
- Brad Heineck, Physical Therapist
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- In our opinion of course, Bob!
- Today, we are gonna show you how to self correct-
that means you're gonna do it-
a high hip in 60 seconds.
This is a pretty simple process.
We're gonna show you how to try to determine
whether or not you have a longer leg on one side,
but if you can't do it don't worry.
We'll have other options here.
You look like you're confused, Brad.
- Ahh, well ah if they're a little confused, I am,
that's okay, you're gonna take care of that.
- I'll clear it up.
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So a lot of people, Brad,
feel like one of their legs is longer.
Now there's three possibilities.
One, they might actually have a longer leg.
- Right.
- Or two, after like a hip or knee replacement,
you get that sense like one side is longer,
but quite often it's not. - Sure, right.
- So, we're gonna show you
- What about number three?
- It really wasn't three, it was two tests,
I don't know where I came up with the three.
- But can't you have a little shift in your SI joint?
- Yes, that was number three!
- Well, Bob, that's why I'm here!
- Your SI could- yeah, you know, you see, you help me out.
Your SI could be a little bit off.
It'll actually make it feel like it's longer.
- Sure, right.
- And, so, let's go look at the first way,
we've got kinda two tests that you can do to determine
whether or not one hip is longer.
You may not be able to do these,
'cause it's kind of difficult.
- Yeah it take a little practice, a little, you know,
that's why they have therapy schools and stuff like that.
- Right. That's what keeps us in business.
So the first thing you can do is just looking in a mirror.
If you look at a spine here,
or a full skeleton here, Sam,
look at his pelvis here.
So these are the iliums,
and it actually looks like his left side
is a little higher than his right, doesn't it?
- He's a little, there you go, ha ha!
- There! Not anymore! - Not anymore!
- So, what you're gonna do is
you're gonna dig into your abdomen here,
and you're gonna find the top of these bones.
If your leg is longer-
or this ilium is rotated, it could appear to be longer too.
So that's the first sign.
you're gonna go ahead and just look in a mirror,
stick your hands in here,
and see if they're level or not.
If they're level,
most likely you have, you're even, you have normal legs
and you have normal SI.
- Even-Steven.
I just wanted to show the viewers that-
here is that pelvis and here's that SI joint,
and if you can go in, what happens is- see that movement?
- If it rotates, it appears to be higher.
- So just a- there is not,
it doesn't take much movement at all to cause pain
and discomfort.
So there's a possibility there's a shift there.
- Yeah so we're looking at two things here.
One is, basically you want to self-correct
because it looks high, but really the more important reason
why you might wanna self-correct is because it hurts.
- It's causing pain, yes. - Right.
- So the way a therapist would do it,
Brad, if you wanna lay down real quick here-
- Well of course.
- Now what we can do is,
and you see a lot of chiropractors do this and stuff,
and there's Brad's yellow gaudy socks,
- They're not yellow they're chartreuse!
That way the people can see very clearly.
- Alright, so anyway I'm gonna put my thumbs
right on his ankle bones on the inner side here,
and I'm gonna look to see if they're even or not.
And right now they appear to be pretty even Brad.
- But you gotta be careful
'cause I could just shift like this-
- Yeah, and one could be longer.
- Right so there's a little, you kinda have to,
that's where it takes some practice as a-
- And then you, I have them sit up
and they all change.
If they still stay level, we're fine.
If one is longer and one is shorter after that,
you might have some issues going on with your pelvis.
I'm not gonna send you more than that, Brad.
Yeah, if one is long laying down
and long sitting up,
that probably is a long leg then.
- So you have to have someone, a second person.
- That's why it's not easy to do.
- Right but you can still do the treatment,
and we're gonna talk about that,
and be successful without the second person.
- Right, what we're gonna do is,
we're gonna assume you don't know which leg is longer,
but you're having some SI issues because of a long leg.
So we're gonna go and- why don't you sit up?
Or do you wanna do it Brad?
- I wanna do it!
That's why I, I didn't wanna get up.
- All right, what you're gonna do is you're gonna
take a broomstick, or a pole, or a booyah stick,
and you're gonna put it- if you think, you suspect
that this is the longer leg,
you're gonna put this one underneath the longer leg,
and above the shorter leg.
Above the thigh of the shorter leg.
You're gonna bring it up to this-
- So here, I'll show 'em this way.
So from this angle it looks like this.
- Right.
And you're gonna have your hips at about 90 degrees
which is a right angle,
and all you're gonna do is you're gonna push down
with this one while you're pushing up with this one
at the same time.
It's isometric, so you're not really gonna get any movement,
but you're gonna count to five while you do it.
- And I'm gonna hold the stick with my hands.
- You're gonna hold the stick, yup.
- So the stick's isn't gonna move like this.
- Stick's not gonna move.
- Yeah don't, Watch out there!
- Yeah oh ho ho, oh I almost got a cramp.
- Okay ready? - Yep
- And, one two three four five.
You're gonna do that five times.
Now what I'm looking for on this, does it feel better?
Does this feel right, you know, when you do this?
- It feels okay Bob!
- Okay?
- I do have a right side thing, another side thing,
that does give me issues.
- You see, I thought I saw that when we tested you before.
- Yep.
- So let's try the other side.
So now he's gonna put it under the-
maybe you suspect this leg is longer,
and this leg is shorter.
Let's try this one.
And again, this is for if you're having that pelvic pain,
or SI pain, give this a try.
- So it's kinda like a scissors with your legs,
but you're preventing that movement.
- Right. Brad's scissor legs. So.
It'll be a new movie.
- Well, either- for me, either direction
does not create any obvious pain.
- Or any relief either?
- Well, I would say this feels more comfortable,
even though the other one doesn't create pain,
this one feels better. - Sure.
- Which makes sense because that's the one
I always deal with when I self treat.
I have a little bit different system
but I think it's similar mechanics.
But we don't wanna go there.
- Yeah, the other thing you can do is you can actually,
right when you finish up you put
two fists between your legs, yep,
and you squeeze the legs together.
This kinda just resets the pubic synthesis.
- How many times?
- I would also do it five times.
- Five times? Hold five seconds?
- Yup.
- So again it's isometric.
- And those muscles directly connect to the pelvis,
and it makes sense that that is doing some-
- The other way you can, go ahead, Brad,
if you wanna lay down one more time,
is you can actually,
you can actually take one leg off the edge of the bed,
like this. - Ooh yeah
- Take it off, and this one pull up,
and you're gonna kinda rock it back and forth.
This is the same thing, which side feels better?
Does this feel better?
If not, maybe try the other-
so the other leg's gonna go off the edge.
- There you go!
- And there you go.
- You know actually, this is one of those
stretches that, probably people will
benefit one way or another. - Right.
- You know, it's just a good stretch.
- It's a good stretch, you can enjoy it.
Your hip flexor gets stretched out.
- It's getting movement down in your SI, it's just,
it's really a pretty harmless one.
So I think it's a pretty safe one to do.
Let's say for example, you discover that you definitely
have one leg that's longer than the other.
Where did I put my- ? Oh here it is, in my pocket, ha ha!
- Ohf. What do you got, a tape measure?
- Nope! Ah, let's say that you discover that
one leg is definitely longer,
especially if it's like a have inch longer.
Now it's not very unusual to have
one leg longer than the other, by the way.
I find it quite often in people.
Maybe a quarter inch, sometimes a half inch.
If it's like a half inch, and they're having pain,
I will often correct it.
So my long leg is, let's say the long leg is this side.
The right side.
I would actually take a heel wedge,
even as a trial you could cut a piece of carpet out
with the shape of a heel,
put the heel wedge in your shoe,
or the carpet in your shoe,
and try walking around with it.
And seeing if that, raising it up,
making it more equal actually decreases your pain.
- I have people usually go for a day.
Unless it starts to irritate 'em,
then immediately take it out.
Because you don't wanna force it.
- The other thing is if you're having SI problems,
you wanna make sure you're sitting correctly.
Don't be one of those people that are sitting, like,
leaning over on one side most of the time.
I do this as a habit.
- Yeah, like this.
- For whatever- when I eat breakfast or lunch,
I always lean like this, and I have to just-
I don't know why I do that!
And so I have to actually,
lately I've been forcing myself
to sit with even weight on my cheeks.
- Taken you 60 years? You've been a therapist for 30 years!
- Yeah. Well you know what's so weird about this is, Brad?
Honest to god, so, because I was doing this,
I was starting to stand in golf like this
and I had to correct it.
That's what made me correct it then, it was like-
- The golfing got you.
- The golfing got me, it was like,
why am I standing so crooked?
It's because I was sitting crooked.
We found that out, that sitting
tends to shape your standing.
- Oh yeah, absolutely.
- So, give this is a try.
You know, we're showing you how to correct the high hip,
we're also showing you how to correct
the pain from a high hip, and SI problems.
- Which really is the only reason I would treat
someone with a high hip, is pain,
because you could have a high hip all your life,
your body's adapted to it, and it's gonna be fine.
That's, ah, they won't, you know-
- So really the only reason to treat it is,
as Brad said, is because it hurts.
- Because if there's pain.
- And remember, Brad and I can fix just about anything,
- Except for,
- A broken heart. - There ya go Bob.
- But we'll work on it.
- It's got nothin' to do with a pelvic problem.
- No. It's a lot higher.
- There's a long distance between there.
And this video's not gonna help that one.
- Danke.