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hey guys dr. Burke here in this video

I’m going to show you how to correct a

short leg okay a lot of people are

walking on with a short leg and I’m

going to show you what not to do and

what to do

first of all there’s a muscle deep

inside your your abdomen okay and it’s

from the last rib to your hip bone

right through here it’s called iliac

crest and you got two of them they’re

these big broad muscles on both sides

they’re in your back and they connect

the upper rib to this area right here

and it’s called the quadratus lumborum

okay what happens a short leg is mainly

affected by one of these muscles it’s

too tight maybe you fell on your

tailbone

maybe you fell in your butt real hard

and you jammed it and caused a spasm

okay so what happens is one of these

muscles will tighten up and draw up the

pelvis on one side now let’s just

pretend it went up on this side that the

hip went higher it’s going to make the

leg seem short on that side right so if

you’re checking the leg lengths and you

have a short leg in your mind you might

think oh I’m going to give the person a

heel lift on the short leg well guess

what that’s going to do it’s going to

make it worse it’s going to drive the

hip higher okay

so usually it’s true that you could have

a short leg but it’s very rare unless

you broke your leg but typically what

happens it’s really a pelvis that draws

up on the side where it’s short okay so

we’re going to show you an exercise how

to fix that but the point is don’t ever

put a heel lift in the short leg because

it might be the wrong side you should

put in the longer leg because it’ll

drive up the hip right here and why

because the problem is actually a muscle

that’s drawing it up and it’s making it

appear to be short all right so let’s

now show you what to do to fix this okay

so if we look at the short leg we got a

short leg on the left side over here

okay you can see that it’s short and

that means that his pelvis is drawing

upward okay so we got a spasm on his

pelvis up to the is lower back so that

muscle the quadratus lumborum is too

tight on that side because it’s drawing

up the worst thing you can do is put a

lift heel lift on the short leg why

because it’s going to drive the pelvis

higher so this could happen from a fall

in the tailbone fall on the butt

whatever or on the knee and jam that

side so now the question is how do we

fix it right now I found that if you try

to stretch the short leg it doesn’t work

because the thing is in a guarding mode

so it’s kind of like taking an injured

muscle and stretching it just kind of

like a rubber band it comes right back

okay so there’s a much simpler way and

it’s using a technique to pull a muscle

out of that protect mode at that

guarding mode okay so we want to get it

to relax and what we’re going to do is

we’re going to actually work on the

opposite muscle so we’re going to

stretch the opposite muscle okay so when

we stress the opposite muscle it’s going

to send a signal to the short leg and

relax it why because both of those

muscles in your back work together

they’re on the same electrical circuit

so what we’re going to do is we’re going

to work on the other side to fix the

short side okay sounds might sound new

to you but it really works so this is

what we’re going to do we’re going to

take the long leg okay and we’re going

to stretch it downward towards me so

just push drop your pelvis down towards

me yes as far as you can push it yeah

right there good relax it good let’s do

that again

good now look what we’re doing we’re

taking the long leg and making it worse

okay we’re exaggerating the long leg

this is stretching the good side and

it’s sending signals into the tight side

you’ll see when we’re done okay we’re do

this 10 times and you can do this

yourself while laying in your body all

you need to help with this is for

someone to tell you what leg is short

okay okay good now so that’s you do it

like 10 times so now what I’m going to

do is I’m going to recheck and you can

see the leg lengths are perfectly

balanced

it’s an amazing so this is how you fix a

short leg go ahead make your comments

below and I will see you on the next

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