11/15/2024
Why am I always checking your leg lengths?
An easy question to answer and it has everything to do (mostly) with pelvic function — or dysfunction of you will!
Let me elaborate 👩🏼⚕️
I don’t say that joints are “stuck” often 🚫— if at all. Usually my job is to reintroduce motion into a joint that isn’t able to access its normal physiological range. That being said, the pelvis is one region in the body that if I need to use that term it’s the best way to describe what’s happening.
If your pelvis is tensioned and “stuck” outside the region of its normal biomechanical position and has lost its ability to move within its natural planes of motion, you end up creating sacroiliac joint, sacrum and/or tailbone tension and possible hip pain, along with a functional leg length inequality.
The difference in your leg lengths ends up telling me where the pelvis may be hiked back or forwards, and depending on if you have slight rotation in the leg causing a foot flare, this tells me if that joint is “stuck” into internal or external rotation. We get this information simply due to the nature of where the top part of your leg (femur) inserts into the pelvis to create your hip joint.
All very valuable information when I’m trying to figure out which muscles to treat with soft tissue and exactly where I need to adjust and in what direction to have the most positive impact 👏🏼
If you have questions about how this may impact you, I’m always here to answer your questions! 🤗
Dr. P
