Identifying and treating imbalances. imbalances are usually when certain muscle groups are overcompensating for weaker muscle groups. An example of this that I personally have struggled with is shoulder impingement. This is when your shoulder is locked in a forward or hiked position. In my case, I'm experiencing shoulder impingement of my right shoulder. After investigating this further, I have become aware that this is related to weakness in my core, and my left side in general, specifically, my left obliques, glutes, leg, ankle and foot.

Starting from the ground up, the weakness in my left foot is directly related to weakness in the left glute. Since walking patterns occur about 80% of the time on one foot, I'm overcompensating with my right foot and leg This is causing my right leg to become tight because it's overworking. Since my left side is weaker and unstable, the sequencing up the kinetic chain is off and not firing in the right order, especially in my left glute, and core muscles. This is causing my right trap to over engage in overcompensate for the weakness in my Korean glute muscles. Shoulder imbalances can affect how you distribute you your bodyweight, your balance and also affect the neck john face. imbalances are a great opportunity to take the time to really understand how the parts of the body are connected and how they work together to function as one living organism.

Let's take a look at how sleeping positions can affect your progress on healing imbalances. Okay. So you are dealing with shoulder impingement. Typically your hip issues, sleeping position is really important and it's actually important for anybody. But in this video, I'm going to focus on how it can affect your progress in improving your shoulder impingement or frozen shoulder condition. Right.

So I want to show you some, let's say you. So most people I find like to sleep on their side. I like to sleep on my side, right? But I'm going to show you look what happened when you see one of your clients with no lumbar support. Right. So first thing is this, my cord drops down.

So it's like trying to be flat here and it's dipping down which is already putting together an imbalance with my hips and my core. Look what's happening with my shoulders. They're not only hiking up but they're rolling forward. Okay, so keep that in mind. Mostly People sleep six to eight hours a day, right? So that's about a third of your day if you're sleeping eight hours.

So you're in this position for a long time. So if you're only working out or training your body for 30 minutes to an hour a day, it's really hard to counteract that eight hours in a position with bad posture, especially where your shoulders are high, your hips are all out of balance, and your shoulders are rolled forward, right. So this is what I do personally. What I have honestly found is I've been making a lot of progress with my shoulder impingement because I have that on my right shoulder. Now, what I found is that sleeping on my back is helping me progress faster in healing this shoulder, but naturally, I do like to sleep on my side. So it's kind of a challenge me going back and forth.

Because I'm trying to consciously put myself in a position of sleeping on my back, but I my body naturally to either side. So this is what I tend to do. First things first I put this nice lumbar support in place and that's for whether I'm sleeping on my back or sleeping because it's really supporting it so you're not dipping down Solo is keeping the natural position of your corn hips. Then I like to punch out my pillow so that my head is not too if your pillows too flat, then your shoulder is gonna have to compensate by pushing forward. If your pillow like this, it can more say in the proper position more naturally or more easily. Next thing I do is put another report between my knees right?

So my hips are collapsing in. This will already make a huge improvement in your life just on a day to day basis. Now, the other thing that can be really helpful is holding a pillow here like you're hugging it. And if you have a body pillow pillow, this can kind of take care of the whole alignment in terms of hugging the pillow in between. Not a lot. So the thing you can do is you have a pillow, right?

Like kind of like your phone, right? The best thing you can do though, is try to sleep on your back. Right so try to keep the pillow and if you can prop some pillows up under your knees. So that you can have the proper line. And this honestly feels so good. Like it feels so good.

It's just hard for me to stay in this position, especially when I don't have pillows, I had more pillows, I would honestly just align them up across on each side of my body. So if you have more access to more pillows and things like this, then you can really set yourself up to sleep in an ideal or optimal position, but if not, you really just have to make your work until you can get into that situation. But this is a major factor in how fast you're able to progress in healing children. Okay, so that's it. I love you.