Looking at Posture and Muscle Tone
All right, let’s take a look at an adjustment. Typically, I’ll start just by looking at his posture. As you can see, he thinks he’s straight on the table, but he actually has quite the lean over to one side.
We’ll also see what the muscle tone is like in his spine—where he’s got muscles that are holding on really tight and giving us some of those compensation patterns. Okay, he’s a little tight on the right thoracic, and as you can see, his left hip is sitting over this way.
I’m going to straighten out his legs a little bit and see what is happening. Well, yeah, you can see there’s a big difference there. Don’t worry, there’s no difference in the length of his legs. He doesn’t have a short leg. Therefore, he does not need a shoe lift. What he has is dysfunction in his sacrum and hips. So let’s correct that.
Adjusting the Sacrum and Hips
I’m going to raise the table here, and I’m going to do three drops. The sacrum is not going to pop, crunch, or crack. I’m going to rotate the sacrum back to center and drop the table. Going to do that three times. Good. One more. Very good.
All right, let’s stretch out that psoas muscle. Relax all this in here. Nice stretch in there. Good. Deep breath into that. Good. Nice and relaxed. I love it. Here we go. Let all that go. Deep breath in and out.
Okay, you didn’t hear the crunch there? Oh my gosh. Did the chiropractor adjust him? Yes. The crunch is not the adjustment. He can feel the shifting. There’s absolutely movement going on in there. But this is not one of those YouTube channels where we add extra noise just for the fun of it.
As you can see, he already has a much more relaxed position here. We’re going to go this side up, facing me. So he’s going to lie on his right hip and shoulder. Very good. Going to curl the top leg, straighten out the bottom one there. I’m just going to get him exactly where I want him to be. He’s just going to go loose and do this for me.
All right, so we’re going to come over here. Beautiful. Let’s go to the other side. Very nice. On your back.
Checking His Position and C1
All right, now sitting a little squampus again. There we go. You can see some of this is coming from his hips. A lot of it is actually also coming from up at the very top of C1.
We’re going to bend that knee for me there. Hold your shoulders nice and tight for me there. Good. Very good. And blow it out. Good. Good. Very nice. Drop that. Relax your hands under your stomach.
Cameraman, why don’t you come on over here for me? I’m analyzing his spine right now to see where he may have some imbalance. We can see right here on the left side of his neck at C1, it’s not very happy. Now, I happen to know that this patient in particular does like to seize up in his neck sometimes. So it’s also my job to help you feel relaxed, right?
What we’re going to do is a very mild adjustment here. Just relax into that. We’re here on C1. This might not even make a large pop. That’s okay. Hey, just relax for me there. Oh yeah. Did you feel that? Of course you did. You didn’t hear it. It was a beautiful adjustment.
This patient isn’t very puffy. We’re not concerned about that. Everything has moved throughout this adjustment. With that C1 being adjusted, it’s going to sit more center, which means his head is going to sit more center on his spine. He is going to be feeling a lot better today.
Checking the Rest of His Neck
Okay, so we got C1 adjusted. Let’s see if there’s anything else in his neck that needs a little bit of help. And as you’ll notice, these are not heavy rotation adjustments over here. We’re about C3. Just want you to relax for me there. Good. We don’t need to rotate the neck. We’re not putting your nose in a new zip code.
And then we’re going to come down to the cervical thoracic junction on his left. That’s a really deep adjustment in there. Good. Perfect. Didn’t hear a bunch of noise because you don’t always have to hear a bunch of noise. Preston felt all of that movement, and he’s in much better biomechanical shape now. We’ll see you next time.
