Ben’s Success Story

Ben’s Success Story

Ben is a 23 year old male.  He had many problems impacting his healthy for such a young man. He doctors were not giving much help except for pain medication, surgery or braces. He had the following musculoskeletal imbalances and symptom: 

• Forward head (upper cross syndrome)
• Cold and numbness in his hands and fingers
• The muscle in his neck and shoulders were stiff and sore
• The forward head put pressure on the front of C7 and transferred the pressure to the front of T9 pushing the vertebra back (posterior)
• Pinched nerves and discomfort
• Leaned forward in front of the red line and placed too much pressure on the balls of the feet
• Stiff and sore back muscles, quadriceps and calf muscles (castrocnemius)
• Glutes, hamstrings and abs were contracting all the time
• Flat low back (no lumbar curve)
• Pressure on the front or anterior side of L1-L5 (This could cause a bulging disc or bone spurs in the future)
•  Hip flexors (Iliopsoas) were weak and tight
• Right dropped shoulder
• Left dropped hip
• Left upper back (thoracic) was over developed
• Left lower back (lumbar) was over developed
• Had two stages of scoliosis
• Inside cures of the vertebra were too close together which can cause a bulging disc and bone spurs
• Left gluteus maximus is weak causing the left hip to drop
• Left erector spinae is over developed and pulls the lumbar spine to the left     
• Left SIJ was mobile
• The muscles around the left hip were contracting with stiff and soreness, as he tried to support the SIJ
• Shifted to the right to compensate and the left glute stopped contracting as much
• External rotation at the hips, knees and ankles
• Bow legged
• Tight glutes
• Weak adducters
• Pronation and supanation in the ankles
• Knee joints had too much pressure on the lateral side of the joint wearing the meniscus and cartilage out too fast (Could end up replacing his knees at the age of 65)
• His doctors prescribed pain medications as well as talked about surgery to put rods up his spine or wearing a body brace

After 12 one hour sessions his side view shows the joints almost perfectly lined up and all of his symptoms disappeared. His face view shows a straight spine with shoulders and hips parallel. The external rotation at the hips, knees, and ankles are all gone. He still has too much bow in his legs.  He is off his pain medications. I have suggested to him to do another 12 session to develop all the muscle to a point that every joint is stable and supported, to assure perfect posture and function. 
On Bens 6^th session he said “I feel like you are unwinding me. People are noticing that my posture is improving, and I am feeling much stronger.”