Chapter 17 · Simon Kingsley Dutton - Self Made Podcast
Pelvic Tilt and Muscular Chains
September 19, 2021
what I find is that working on length tension and working on the brain as far as calming the brain down, utilizing things like PNFs,
stretching, hard isometric stretching, isometric end range liftoffs, lengthened range lifts like split squats, pullovers, flies, looking at things like that of how can I reposition where my bone should be. Working on, for most people, posteriorly tilting their pelvis. When I look at, when I, when I get a client's photos in, the first thing I do is put the side pick up and I draw that plum line. And then I've got a protractor app on my Mac. I draw lines from the ASIS to the PSIS, and I make like a little triangle. And then I see what's the degree of variance there. Most of the people I see are like 20 to 30 degrees of fucking anterior pelvic rotation. That should be about five to 10. And so if your, if your hips are rotated that much, it's basically putting you in front of your feet, you're doing this. So what does the spine have to do to counteract that? Well, it's going to have to extend the lower back. So you've got anterior rotation with a really hard extended lower back. Well, now that's pushing your spine that way. So what has to happen? Well, my, my T-spine has to go into kyphosis to counterbalance that. And then what has to happen? Well, my head has to rotate and my neck has to go into more lordosis and forward head posture in order to keep my eyes on the horizon. So this is a whole chain reaction and shit that starts mainly at the hip so if we can get control of the hip we can control a lot of shit yeah i i yeah that's that's something the way i've looked at for years and look to people like you say yourself and hassan and john shire like a lot of that sort of stuff comes in it's like if you can get the hip in a good position that often eases everything up you know certainly up the chain but to a degree down the chain as well like you know i like neat block people with knee pain okay let's sort the hip first then i'll look at the foot and if those two things can sort so yeah you're not sitting in this internally rotated position all the time yeah and there's like uh you think about what's happening when you're sitting you've got a lot of lower lumbar compression and when you start looking at some of these these uh muscular chains i don't want to say fascial chains because people get really irritated when you say that they either go oh yeah fascial change right on they go fascial change fuck that bullshit so i'm gonna say muscular chains where you're causing force coupling between, um, between muscles for locomotion or stability or to create form closure and joints and things like that. So if you look at kind of that deep longitudinal line that runs from your, uh, like your erectors and your traps, and then down through the sacrum and then across through the biceps femoris, a lot of the sitting really fucks that up. So the minute you stand up and you go into interior pelvic rotation, your femurs are going to go into internal rotation, which puts that biceps femoris at a state of length. It can't actually rotate or externally rotate your tibia. So if that happens, you're going to have internal rotation of tibia and collapsing arches. And the next thing you know, every time you squat, your knees cave in. They can't recover. Your fucking back hurts. there's a lot of shit that can happen just from sitting 12 hours a day that for your feet that you wouldn't even think about that so yeah everything can work from the hips up and definitely and probably more importantly hips down i think as well you mentioned that about the bicep more has been a state of length and i think this is where um you can change a lot of people's thinking in terms of like what's actually going on