Thanks a bunch. I’m definitely going to try the QL release and see if this helps. I can relate to the posture being almost hyperextended forcing your abdominals into a stretched state and never having them actually relax. Appreciate the information and your keen insights.
Riaan - do keep me/us posted! This is such an under-appreciated pattern, I want to gather some stories from other people in order to verify my theory (because it can't be just me). I appreciate you taking the time to comment!
This is me! I dont pee when I sneeze though 😂 but have always had a "sway back" and pot belly. This I think led to pelvic instability, tight hip flexors, bunions. Funnily enough in the morning in bed I always have a massive urge to tuck/lift my pelvis and really stretch my lower back! It feels like a compulsion not just a little stretch!! I'll try the tennis balls and look for a massage specialist. Love your channel by the way!
Lol, I'm glad you don't pee when you sneeze (sooo embarrassing!) Sounds like you DEFINITELY fit this pattern. Please keep me/us posted, and thanks for commenting!
O M G!! I have been suffering from this for over 15 years and even trained and fought as an MMA athlete for 6 years with it. I slowly started to loose strength and felt like I could not take a deep breath, or felt like I couldn’t exhale deep enough. After learning about upper and lower cross syndromes I have been doing all the exercises with little results until recently. What I noticed was that when I would do crunches just the outer layer of muscle would try to work while the inner muscle was basically off. What I started to do was just lay down flat and try to gently fire up the inner abdominals that pushed my spine back. It’s just now starting to work. Somehow the outer layer of my abs was doing all the work and holding on for dear life due to the lordosis!!!! I’m still trying to prove this to work, but I’m so glad and sorry at the same time to hear someone else suffering from this as well. I’ve been to countless doctors and felt very alone for a long time. This is so bad that my right side is basically atrophied to skeleton and can’t breath if I lay down
Hey Rod - how's your progress going? This can be a tough issue to resolve fully (not in every case, but for me certainly it's been a decades long journey to figure it out). Did you check out my free workshop on solving pelvic instability? I think it's still linked in the description here. I just guided 93 people through a 5 week course and it was very successful. I'll be opening the course again at some point. The primary message I hope people take away is that you can't strengthen an inhibited muscle - so the fastest way to get out of pain and build balance back into the body is to "map" the fascia to figure out if any muscles are inhibited, get them firing again and THEN work on strengthening. I'm sorry it's been so long for you too! But you can totally figure this out 😊
MobilityMastery I’m still going around in circles thinking I’ve got it figured out, only to find out I do not. I will check out that link right now, it feels like my pelvis is my root cause, but can’t seem to get the surrounding muscles to relax enough to regain mobility. Thanks for checking on me, I’m all in on the class THANK YOU!
MobilityMastery ... also, I had a bad motorcycle accident where I fell about 20 feet straight onto my tailbone when I was 15... and couldn’t breath or talk for a minute, and like you, never got it looked at. I couldn’t find that link, but I will keep an eye out for the next class, I’m in serious need of help for sure. Thank you 🙏
Hey Elisha have you ever tried Somatic Movement or Feldenkrais. I've had great results resetting the balance between my abs and low back muscles using this very slow and controlled method of retraining your nervous system. There's a particular move called arch and flatten that you can find on TH-cam that's super helpful and relaxing. Hope you enjoy!
This makes sense, I have bad posture since I was kid. My lower back in pain when I stand or walk for longer period. My core is very tight as well ,which cause my bad digestive issue
What about swayback? I have been doing all the "right" exercises for swayback, but I feel like I need to release the right fascia to make them effective. What should I focus on? ( By the way, thank you soooo much for your videos! I have had huge success in fixing my shoulder pain!!)
Without more info I can't offer very constructive advice - since swayback (which I also have) could be coming from weak/inhibited lower abdominals, scar tissue from falling on your tailbone or compensations to name a few. When trying to fully resolve pain, we want to take a whole body approach. I just responded to your other comment about the Solving Pelvic Instability course, so hopefully you can join - because the strategic process of mapping, self-assessing and taking care of muscle inhibitions before strengthening is the most effective way to resolve this.
I suffered a pelvic prolapse 2 years ago despite doing Pilates and kegels. Can you speak to how that might impact this. Had mid back at low thoracic, upper lumbar spine for decades. Rigid. Now terrible and pulling sacrum and coccyx tight. Glute attachment on right like lump of gristle that nothing releases. Tight right up to base of skull and in jaw. T8/9/10 are too forward and vertebra either side forced back. Can’t find any way to release the areas that are forced forward. Same problem between shoulder blades. Seeing good Myofascial person who says everything rigid. Hard to know where to start. All started in 1996 at top of neck after leaning back in chair. Then later hurt L5/S1 and had to have surgery. Now nothing will relax. Feldenkrais says gently encouraging spinal flexors to work will release tight back? Osteopath constantly tries to release diaphragm and hip flexors - doesn’t help.
I’ve been fighting this too, in my case my back and neck was carrying total body load as abs and neck flexors were off. While sitting Try to let your body weight sag forward and try to get abs to take the weight.
Devouring your content. Such a blessing!
Phenomenal work
This explains a lot! Thank you sister!!!! I know I was supposed to see this today. All my love :-)
You're welcome, thanks for watching! Hope this helps. I'll post an update on me when I feel like I've solved this for good.
Thanks a bunch. I’m definitely going to try the QL release and see if this helps. I can relate to the posture being almost hyperextended forcing your abdominals into a stretched state and never having them actually relax. Appreciate the information and your keen insights.
Riaan - do keep me/us posted! This is such an under-appreciated pattern, I want to gather some stories from other people in order to verify my theory (because it can't be just me). I appreciate you taking the time to comment!
Thank you so much
I relate to this so much! I played roller derby and fell so many times on one side that I have a permanent lump on my outer hip.
This is me! I dont pee when I sneeze though 😂 but have always had a "sway back" and pot belly. This I think led to pelvic instability, tight hip flexors, bunions. Funnily enough in the morning in bed I always have a massive urge to tuck/lift my pelvis and really stretch my lower back! It feels like a compulsion not just a little stretch!! I'll try the tennis balls and look for a massage specialist. Love your channel by the way!
Lol, I'm glad you don't pee when you sneeze (sooo embarrassing!) Sounds like you DEFINITELY fit this pattern. Please keep me/us posted, and thanks for commenting!
Me neither.
O M G!! I have been suffering from this for over 15 years and even trained and fought as an MMA athlete for 6 years with it. I slowly started to loose strength and felt like I could not take a deep breath, or felt like I couldn’t exhale deep enough. After learning about upper and lower cross syndromes I have been doing all the exercises with little results until recently. What I noticed was that when I would do crunches just the outer layer of muscle would try to work while the inner muscle was basically off. What I started to do was just lay down flat and try to gently fire up the inner abdominals that pushed my spine back. It’s just now starting to work. Somehow the outer layer of my abs was doing all the work and holding on for dear life due to the lordosis!!!! I’m still trying to prove this to work, but I’m so glad and sorry at the same time to hear someone else suffering from this as well. I’ve been to countless doctors and felt very alone for a long time. This is so bad that my right side is basically atrophied to skeleton and can’t breath if I lay down
Hey Rod - how's your progress going? This can be a tough issue to resolve fully (not in every case, but for me certainly it's been a decades long journey to figure it out). Did you check out my free workshop on solving pelvic instability? I think it's still linked in the description here. I just guided 93 people through a 5 week course and it was very successful. I'll be opening the course again at some point. The primary message I hope people take away is that you can't strengthen an inhibited muscle - so the fastest way to get out of pain and build balance back into the body is to "map" the fascia to figure out if any muscles are inhibited, get them firing again and THEN work on strengthening. I'm sorry it's been so long for you too! But you can totally figure this out 😊
MobilityMastery I’m still going around in circles thinking I’ve got it figured out, only to find out I do not. I will check out that link right now, it feels like my pelvis is my root cause, but can’t seem to get the surrounding muscles to relax enough to regain mobility. Thanks for checking on me, I’m all in on the class THANK YOU!
MobilityMastery ... also, I had a bad motorcycle accident where I fell about 20 feet straight onto my tailbone when I was 15... and couldn’t breath or talk for a minute, and like you, never got it looked at. I couldn’t find that link, but I will keep an eye out for the next class, I’m in serious need of help for sure. Thank you 🙏
Wow! I Need Your Physical Therapy Friend❣
Hey Elisha have you ever tried Somatic Movement or Feldenkrais. I've had great results resetting the balance between my abs and low back muscles using this very slow and controlled method of retraining your nervous system. There's a particular move called arch and flatten that you can find on TH-cam that's super helpful and relaxing. Hope you enjoy!
This makes sense, I have bad posture since I was kid. My lower back in pain when I stand or walk for longer period. My core is very tight as well ,which cause my bad digestive issue
Never relax abdomen .
I don't know what causes what problems. But you mentioned several.
So I am lisgening.
Elaine Mckusick + Elisha Celeste
What about swayback? I have been doing all the "right" exercises for swayback, but I feel like I need to release the right fascia to make them effective. What should I focus on? ( By the way, thank you soooo much for your videos! I have had huge success in fixing my shoulder pain!!)
Without more info I can't offer very constructive advice - since swayback (which I also have) could be coming from weak/inhibited lower abdominals, scar tissue from falling on your tailbone or compensations to name a few. When trying to fully resolve pain, we want to take a whole body approach. I just responded to your other comment about the Solving Pelvic Instability course, so hopefully you can join - because the strategic process of mapping, self-assessing and taking care of muscle inhibitions before strengthening is the most effective way to resolve this.
A yoga trainer fucked up my back 5 years ago.
I suffered a pelvic prolapse 2 years ago despite doing Pilates and kegels. Can you speak to how that might impact this.
Had mid back at low thoracic, upper lumbar spine for decades. Rigid. Now terrible and pulling sacrum and coccyx tight. Glute attachment on right like lump of gristle that nothing releases.
Tight right up to base of skull and in jaw.
T8/9/10 are too forward and vertebra either side forced back. Can’t find any way to release the areas that are forced forward. Same problem between shoulder blades.
Seeing good Myofascial person who says everything rigid. Hard to know where to start.
All started in 1996 at top of neck after leaning back in chair. Then later hurt L5/S1 and had to have surgery.
Now nothing will relax.
Feldenkrais says gently encouraging spinal flexors to work will release tight back?
Osteopath constantly tries to release diaphragm and hip flexors - doesn’t help.
I’ve been fighting this too, in my case my back and neck was carrying total body load as abs and neck flexors were off. While sitting Try to let your body weight sag forward and try to get abs to take the weight.
Video is blurry..but great great content
thats because you are drunk.