Why The Ground is Necessary for Arm Swing During Gait and PRI Exercises
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- Upright walking and breathing requires your brain to sense the ground. Proper gait mechanics can't occur without this ground awareness. Proper diaphragmatic breathing requires ground awareness.
When someone is ungrounded they will rely on hip flexors, back extensors and neck muscles for stabilization. Their back will extend.
Arm swing, as a function of gait mechanics, can't occur normally with proper humeral, scapula, rib cage dynamics when the spine is extended.
Hey there, my name is Neal Hallinan.
The purpose of this channel is to help people understand and resolve chronic muscular and joint pain, primarily through the discipline of Postural Restoration.
As someone who lived with chronic pain for many years of my life, I know how debilitating and isolating it can be. But I also know it can be resolved.
I hold the following credentials:
Postural Restoration Trained (PRT)
Strength and Conditioning Coach (CSCS)
Licensed Massage Therapist (LMT)
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I live and work in the great state of New Jersey, USA.
I offer one-on-one training as well as online consultations via Skype. Feel free to e-mail me at Nealhallinan@gmail.com for more info.
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For an example of typical exercises for a beginner program, you can look here:
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Please note, this is quite generic and not sufficient for everybody!
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Sir .all your videos are exactly what I m going through .it makes so much of sense now that I know what's happening..thank you so much for helping me ...
How is it going?
Neal! This is like the 30th video of your I’ve watched and this one just helped me realize that I think I’m stuck in my pattern because I hold my dogs leashes in my left hand. We walk a lot and my left arm does not swing. This is so helpful! You’re amazing!!!
Hello Haley. I'd suggest that you are in the pattern because you are human (we are all "patterned" to one degree or another), but the left arm not moving can certainly influence the pattern. Without arms swinging, our torsos can't rotate as we walk, and that will throw off walking mechanics through the entire body.
what I found out after doing shit loads of PRI exercises is that we actually turn away from damaged / traumatic/ injuread area but also crating compression on that spot to protect the area ... lesson learned.
Thanks for your uploads.
would love to see a video about the arm swing in gait? like how the shoulder, shoulderblade, and ribs react to the rotation of the hips
Thanks❤🎉
It made sense. Thx buddy.
I never realized how the left foot needs proper flex and movement. I've always focused on right arch pronation and never realized how tight my left foot was. Thanks for posting!
The left foot/ankle is often very tight to try and "hold on" to the ground underneath the left foot.
How do you describe tight left foot/ankle? I think I have it too but im not sure so im asking
Same here!
made total sense. Gracias Senor Hallinan
I've learned a lot from your videos, many thanks Neal.
Thanks, Binghan.
Wow! Definitely made sense! 🌹
I know, I ask many questions, but your answers can be lifesaving for me. On 90/90 hip shift and Right glute max exercises I feel tightness in my right neck (SCM, Scalenes) when I breath. Have you any advice?
It means you can't inhibit (turn off) your neck so you can't fully shift "left". Are you sensing the arch of your right foot and the heel of your left foot as you do exercises?
@@NealHallinan in right glute max we need put something beetween arch and shoes and pronate the foot for feel the right arch in exercise, what I need to do in hip shift with my ankle/foot to feel left heel?
@@NealHallinan what do you think, can vision problems keep my right neck tight? For example I have double vision myopia and maybe also astegmatism i dont check my vision. What do you think maybe necessary wear correct glasses?
@@khachaturdavtyan5144 Yes, absolutely. There is no bigger influence than vision!
@@NealHallinan very big thank you Mister Hallinan I go to check my vision, when I little bit improve my English I write to your Email my story,maybe its interest you
I have been to Nebraska and they immediately noticed I had a right lazy eye that tracks well to the right with my left eye, however, when I look to the left, my right eye doesn't track well to the left with my left eye past the midpoint. To summarize, my right eye doesn't track well to the left. I have also noticed that my left ankle is stiff and not nearly as mobile as my right ankle. I noticed the ankle issue doing an exercise where I try to achieve a full resting squat, but since my left ankle doesn't not have sufficient dorsal flexion, I cannot keep from falling over. If my left ankle had as much dorsal flexion as might right ankle, I feel I could easily achieve a full resting squat. This video make me think my right lazy eye with a leftward tracking issue might be causing my left ankle to lock, however, this seems to be the opposite of your visual issue since you are right eye dominant whereas I am left eye dominant. I have thought about vision therapy to improve my right eye tracking, but am not sure at this point. Thoughts?
I don't think it matters what the particular vision issue is. It always prevents you from sensing the ground on the left (moreso than the right). That might sound overly bold, but it's bc humans are built to be right dominant. If your visual system is deemed "threatening" by your brain, your brain will put you into a protective extension pattern. And that always ends up on the right side bc of the bigger right diaphragm and more sensory awareness of the right side. The right side is where the body seeks safety and stability when threatened. It's not even hypothetical. The objective PRI tests show this every time.
Neal Hallinan do you believe this applies to any threat ? Say just a sympathetic response to stresses of life ??
One thing I find with almost all my patients is that the R arm barely swings and the L arm swings. Can you explain that?
Brain imbalance
Dear neal, i trully appreciate your channel. So interesting and helpful. As i said before i believe you deserve so many more views!
I wanted to ask you about your thoughts on hipopressive abdominals. Maybe pri has something to tell about them? I Tend ti combine both but i am not sure whether that makes sense ... thanks and congratularions again !
Thank you, Pablo. I honestly don't know what hipopressive abdominals are.
I really appreciate all of the content you put out. It's fascinating to learn about this approach to treating the body. While not related to this specific video I would like to ask how a person with Left AIC pattern would have very poor internal rotation of the right hip? This seems to be the opposite of all the PRI information I have read. Again, thank you for sharing so much content.
Poor internal rotation of the right hip.....I'm trying to remember if that was something I said and in what context.
Regardless, just because the right hip is placed into a state of internal rotation, doesn't mean it is good at actually doing it. Once there is a strong pattern, and a hip is "patterned" into an internally rotated state, it's ability to actively "move" into an internally rotated state is compromised. In other words, to be able to have good internal rotation (the actual movement of internal rotation) there must be external rotation that preceded it. A hip that is already internally rotated isn't moving into internal rotation since it is already there. IR is meaningless to your brain without ER to compare it to.
So in that sense, it can't be said to have good internal rotation.
That may sound like semantics, but it is very real. We have to "sense" movements occurring, different movements occurring simultaneously on both sides to have true ER and IR because they can only occur together.
I'll make a video about it.
@@NealHallinan Thank you very much for the response. And apologies, my initial comment was misleading, you had not ever said that that the right hip could have poor internal rotation. This is something I've experienced, but that makes a lot of sense that if it's stuck in internal rotation that it wouldn't have the capability of going further into it.
@@NealHallinan Yes, there was a similar question in the video named What's Patho PEC
@@bingnanzhao8241 Ah, ok. I vaguely recalled something about that.
Dear Neal,
Thanks for video.
I have million questions.
Is there a way to find out if our left foot senses the ground in a particular moment or not?
it feels like sometimes it does sometimes does not.
Can you explain why the lack of the peripheral view of the left eye impacts on the sensing of the ground?
Should we do exercises with the right eye closed?
Can you show in further videos how arms must swing while walking?
You are Armenian?
The PRI tests will change when someone does sense the left ground. If someones tests are limited, by definition, they aren't really sensing the ground. If they were sensing the ground, it's most likely that their tests wouldn't be limited. I know this bc I can test them and their range of motion is limited. I can then have them stand in "left stance" and sense their left heel and right arch (often with help from a paper towel), retest them and their tests are good.
@@NealHallinan Thanks for the answer. I meant is there a way to check ourselves if we sense the ground or not.
so which side (right left) should you reach with when doing 90 90 hip shift?
It's generally done with the right arm in a 90-90 position.
Can you tell me who you saw about your vision?
How do you weaken your right eye? Blur it with a slightly off prescription? Also, do you have to keep wearing your PRI glasses forever like a retainer after braces?
.25 less correction on the right and not correcting the astigmatism. That's my prescription for now. No longer wearing the special prism glasses.
How much do you think leg length discrepancy may play into this? Thank you for the wonderful videos! 🙏
If it's real, then it will definitely play a role. But lots of people have leg length differences that are due to the position of the pelvis, rather than the actual length of the leg.
My left eye is more dominant than my right. Does this affect the pattern in the same way as right eye dominance?
Well, it depends on how you are measuring dominance. If you are measuring through a self test where you use your hands, that is a different dominance. You have one eye that's dominant between two normally functioning eyes.
Mine was an issue where my brain preferred one eye over the other eye due to an abnormal condition. I didn't have two normally functioning eyes.
Mr. Neal.
What do you think about Functional Patterns and their work/programs? Do you think that could aid in restoring ones posture. No PRI over here in Canada and I am sick and tired of feeling dysfunctional and not being able to build a truly balanced foundation and physique. Are your videos alone enough to restore posture?
I don't really know anything about them. The idea of restoring posture from a PRI perspective is different than most people thing. It's really about restoring the ability to stabilize and move without compensation rather than how we stand. Without working with you directly I can't really give you a good answer.
Thanks for video. Where we can find rib cage, and oder models you use?
I got my from Sawbones.com
I've heard PRI people say let the ground come to you. What does this mean? Is this talking about your mental model of the ground?
Yes, sensing the ground moving up into you.
What about a right foot that's stuck in overpronation? I asked this and sent you pics on Facebook and you read and ignored them.
Book a session - no one works for free.
Hey neal I used to be a R si joint pain and weeks go by from doing L aic R bc exercises it's the L si and not the R anymore? Anything to worry about for me?
Edit: I'm a patho pec by the way
It's often part of the process. Especially with Patho PECs, pain can often jump around as you learn to stabilize with the proper muscles. However, without working directly with you, I can't give you a great answer.
If I recall correctly you have said you made homemade orthotics? What exactly did you use and how did you make them?
They weren't effective for long term use. Paper towels mostly. They were just placed in strategic positions to enable me to sense my arches better.
I've seen a video here on TH-cam on how to customize cheap store orthotics with chaulk. I did it and I really felt a difference when I wore them.....
@@phylismorelock549 nice man do you have a link to that particular video?
@@danielcastaneda4356 It's a video on Colin Chilibeck channel. DYI custom orthotic with silicone chaulk.
@@phylismorelock549 Very interesting. I'll have to look that up!
Would you recommend minimalist shoes to better sense the ground?
I would not. Not for the people that are in pain, at least. I explain why in a number of videos I've done about feet.
Neal Hallinan thank you! I love your explanations
Do you think people with a pathologic scoliosis are fixed in an aic pattern ?
What do you mean by pathologic? In general, scoliosis can be thought of as an exaggerated left AIC right bc pattern because the curves are the same direction.
@@NealHallinan in most cases of scoliosis the torso is rotated to the right,not to the left.Thats why i asked
@@mementomori6526 I believe we are saying the same thing just using different words. PRI has a full day devoted to this subject during one of their seminars. Most scoliosis is just an exaggerated left AIC right BC pattern .
" I'm sick and I'm just talking. "
Covid?
I watched the whole video with left eye😂