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Exhaustion, anterior body carriage and the femur heads

If your hip bones are strained forward, you will feel tired most of the time. Most of your energy will be used to hold your body up because of the lack of balance while standing. One of the most fascinating problems is of the hip bones. The hip is ball-shaped and located at the top of the thigh bone. It fits into the pelvis which has a cup-shaped cavity.

Your head should be right above your buttocks, but go to any mall and you’ll see this isn’t the case, from the teenager to the super elderly Just go to any mall in Ventura or Thousand Oaks. Watch peoples posture. Those who are healthiest look the healthiest. You’ll very seldom see someone with robust health bent forwards and hunched over. The bent-forward person is the cultural image of sickness and old age isn’t it? There’s some sad truth to the old saying, “They are leaning toward their graves.”

Dr. Lowell Ward, developer of Spinal Column Stressology, analyzed side x-rays of patients standing and sitting. He measured the relationship between the skull and the center of the pelvic cavity. He found consistently that people who sat and stood with their head forward to their pelvis were the most sick, with deteriorating physical and psychological health.

Our hips are only responding

We observe that when the person is under a lot of forward stress, the hips would first move back to resist the body going forward. Time takes its toll on the body and as our energies are de­pleted the body breaks down and the hips then move forward.

With both hips forward most of the energy is now devoted to preventing falling forwards.

Forward = decreased health

In 2005 a paper in the medical journal Spine, researchers X-rayed 752 people and looked for a relationship be­tween leaning forward and health status. The authors consistently found those with chronic forward lean had greater se­verity of their symptoms (increased pain, decreased function).

If both femur heads are anterior, the prob­lem is more serious. It means that the body’s defenses are exhausted and the person is dete­riorating (“breaking down”). Patients with this double anterior femur head pattern often feel they are getting worse. I have found in my practice that some people will have both hips forward and after 10-12 adjustments, one will be forward indicating that their body is retracing and improving. Once both hips no longer need adjustments, most patients feel much better.