Biomechanics, Pose Running/ Chi Running and Helping Keep Your Body Aligned, Pain Free and Healthy

[ineedsleep212]

For the past 6 months, I've had crazy back pain as well as pains and weird sensations in my feet/ankles, knees, hip area, neck and shoulder. All of this had me shook as fukk cuz it gradually happened. I first felt a weird numbness in my right abdomen, some back pains and I felt discomfort and pain in my groin area. My ankles bothered a little, but I had no idea what it was. Blood tests showed nothing. CT scan and X ray showed nothing.

Then I finally went to an osteopathic manipulative treatment specialist and leaving that place I felt incredible. I felt mad bouncy. Slowly, the aches and pains and sensations came back. I was like wtf. Then I noticed one thing. For some reason, I felt much better walking barefoot or in my flatter shoes. When I would try to put on my Nike Flyknit Lunar sneakers on, the pains up and down my body would get worse.

Then I recently went to a sports medicine place and everything seemed normal but they noticed i had tightness in my piriformis muscles, hamstrings and a little bit in my calves. So now I have to strengthen my feet and ankles because my arches are collapsed.

This was basically the picture I was dealing with.

Most would probably recommend orthotics but a lot of times that has proven to only be a kind of crutch for your body and not really strengthening it. So along with doing the proper exercises to strengthen muscles up and down my leg, I'm trying to walk barefoot as much as possible.

 

[ineedsleep212]

Chi Running and Pose Running are basically two similar running philosophies to prevent injuries all over your body. Both stress mid foot striking or fore foot striking. Both are essentially all about keeping your body aligned with your foot landing roughly underneath your hips (your center of mass) reinforcing proper alignment while strengthening your core as your body gets used to using more of your muscles as opposed to your joints. They differ a little in the stride though, but both reinforce alignment/posture.







Just an interesting documentary on Kenyan Runners

 

[ineedsleep212]

There are plenty of people around the world that wear the thinnest of shoes and can run extremely long distances. Mocassins and huaraches are super old sandals that are as close to being barefoot while preventing hurting yourself due to sharp objects and other things that could injure your foot.



All wearing huaraches.

 

[YouMadd?]

This is a great thread... I am currently in the process of fixing my body alignment. When I walk, my heel strikes and I ruin the heels of nice shoes...

I the gym the interior of
My legs are weaker than the outsides...

This is probably my favorite aspect of the gym right now. Attempting to improve my posture...

 

[ineedsleep212]

delete... i swore I saw a double post before I edited this lol whatever.

 

[ineedsleep212]

This is a great thread... I am currently in the process of fixing my body alignment. When I walk, my heel strikes and I ruin the heels of nice shoes...

I the gym the interior of
My legs are weaker than the outsides...

This is probably my favorite aspect of the gym right now. Attempting to improve my posture...

Aside from doing a bunch of things in the vids and stuff a physical therapist recommended for me to do, I think seeing someone that does osteopathic manipulative treatment can help facilitate that almost in a giving you a jump start way. I'm guessing anytime during your transition into fixing your alignment. I might go later on as I get stronger up and down my leg by using a wobble board to help all that as well as stretching my calves and hammies more. It's probably not all that necessary, but it does provide instant relief and would most likely give you somewhat of a clean slate in transitioning into walking/running better and working out tension all up and down your body.

The guy I went to was pretty good at it. He worked on my collar bones, my arms, my hands, my neck, skull, and jaw but particularly seemed to focus on my hips and my legs with the emphasis seeming to be on one leg more than the other.

I felt like I had to share this cuz I'm sure plenty of people just think it's something you have to deal with when doing the right things to fix all of it would help your whole body and well being for the rest of your life. There's nothing like being miserable and in pain and getting no answers from docs. Having people question your sanity, calling you depressed, dismissing everything as anxiety and only being able to be reassured by your own thoughts and hardly having anyone be on your side cuz the docs say everything is fine is not cool.

 

[LezJepzin]

*subs* Been running for 17 years, including 3 marathons (training for #4 in Oct)

If I wasn't smart about how I worked out this way , I would've ended up due to running myself into the ground with injuries, like the majority of my teammates in h.s. & college.

 

[ineedsleep212]

 

[Brooklynzson]

Does this really realign your spine? I've always had a curve in my upper spine, but i developed a curve in my lower spine in the past 2 years & the pain was crazy a couple weeks ago. Gonna try this & see what happens.

 

[ineedsleep212]

Does this really realign your spine? I've always had a curve in my upper spine, but i developed a curve in my lower spine in the past 2 years & the pain was crazy a couple weeks ago. Gonna try this & see what happens.

I'm telling you OMT makes you feel incredible. There are no injections or anything like that just in case people were wondering. Thinking about it more it might be a little unnecessary cuz you still have to get your feet/ankles and inner leg stronger, but if you can afford it, it'll help a lot. Using the proper walking technique will further help keep what they did in the same place. I've already noticed a difference already just from one PT session doing stretches and walking more on my sides and keeping my feet in the direction I'm going like Danny Dreyer says in that vid. Feels like my body is getting stretched out like right now im noticing that in my shoulders and neck.

I'm thinking this is usually the case in a lot of long industrialized countries cuz to be honest, injuries = money, doctors = money, footwear = money.

You go through shoes like crazy.
Well what's the problem? :greed:

This is not to say you can't look fresh. It's just the more time you aren't in shyt with lifts and the extra stuff the more you'll be able to deal with ones that may for like formal gathering.

 

[ineedsleep212]

 

[ineedsleep212]

My back pain is slowly going away (only occasionally there) while my neck and traps don't feel as tight. My feet haven't been as tired as they were. My sleep has improved as well. Icy hot on my lower back is no longer needed.

 

[Mr Hate Coffee]

This is cool and all, but I play a lot of basketball. What are you supposed to do then? Because I always revert back to my old form when naturally chasing people and running around the court.

 

[Sugar]

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[ineedsleep212]

This is cool and all, but I play a lot of basketball. What are you supposed to do then? Because I always revert back to my old form when naturally chasing people and running around the court.

I don't see how this should stop you. Just using a flatter shoe in general is gonna help strengthen your feet and inner leg while walking correctly to help overpronation by strengthening all of that and getting your body used to it. Basically creating muscle memory. Trying not to lunge forward too much and putting pressure on your knees would help as well.

I get what you mean though given the hard stop and go action of the game. Just something you may want to try.

Doing this has been helping me so maybe it can help you too. I almost want to say that your old form and what feels natural is just what you're used to doing since forever. It's something you can try when you're not playing. See for yourself. It's not like its gonna hurt you.