and extend your thumbs toward the ceiling (like you are creating fake
guns with your hands). Balance a dowel rod across the top of your two
index fingers and then position your index fingers on the back of your
client’s pelvis (i.e. where their pants would sit on their hips). Now look
in the mirror and see if the dowel rod is level. If the rod is higher on one
side, this indicates that your client’s hips have shifted to that side. It
also suggests that the base of their spine (i.e. sacrum and coccyx) has
shifted toward that same higher side.
If you discover that your client’s hips are not level, you can
assume their neck and head are also out of alignment, due to the
compensatory movements they develop in order to keep their body
balanced (Price, 2011).
Corrective exercise strategies
Dowel rod on hips assessment
Foam roller on side of hip and leg
Use the following self-myofascial release, stretching and
strengthening corrective exercises to help realign the lumbopelvic-hip girdle so the shoulders, neck and head naturally fall back
into better alignment. When performed on a regular basis, these
strategies will retrain the structures of the LPHG and help alleviate
neck and shoulder pain.
Exercise 1: Foam roller on side of hip and leg
A sideways shift of the hips and lumbar spine is often caused by
restrictions in the opposite hip and muscles that run down the leg (i.e.
the hip that appears lower on the dowel rod assessment is usually the
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