When I first “cracked the code” on stabilizing and reversing prolapse, and wrote and published Saving the Whole Woman, I set up this forum. While I had finally gotten my own severe uterine prolapse under control with the knowledge I had gained, I didn’t actually know if I could teach other women to do for themselves what I had done for my condition.
So I just started teaching women on this forum. Within weeks, the women started writing back, “It’s working! I can feel the difference!”
From that moment on, the forum became the hub of the Whole Woman Community. Unfortunately, spammers also discovered the forum, along with the thousands of women we had been helping. The level of spamming became so intolerable and time-consuming, we regretfully took the forum down.
Technology never sleeps, however, and we have better tools today for controlling spam than we did just a few years ago. So I am very excited and pleased to bring the forum back online.
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Christine
May 25, 2007 - 12:00pm
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sore hips and the posture
Hi TZMommy,
We have many women complain of initial back pain after instating the posture, and some hip pain.
It’s impossible to know what the cause might be or whether you are pulled into the posture correctly. However, we may be able to trouble shoot a bit to see if you can experience some relief. If not…a trip to an anatomical physiologist (we need more of them!) may be in order.
First of all, it’s likely if you’ve grown up in our modern world that your hips were previously being held in flexion with the tops of the iliac bones tilting slightly back. The posture moves the hips out of flexion and extends them so that the iliac blades are correctly held in their vertical position.
This means that the muscles and tendons surrounding the hips are being utilized differently, and as with any new muscle usage, initial soreness would be expected.
One vital point, however, is that your hip joints be held directly above your knees. All four sets of load-bearing joints (ankles, knees, hips and shoulders) are held one directly above the other in natural human posture. If you are hyperextending your hips by forcefully curving your lumbar spine, there will be misalignment and pain.
The keys are to keep the feet pointing straight ahead; the knees straight but unlocked; the lower belly relaxed (in this way the lumbar curve establishes its own natural shape); the chest pulled up (this pulls up and flattens the belly); the shoulders held down (not back!); the upper back flat and broad; and the head and neck pulled strongly up by slightly tucking the chin.
The posture is pulled up by the crown of the head.
You might try laying flat on your back on the floor with a small pillow or rolled towel underneath your lumbar spine and relaxing into this passive lumbar stretch for a few minutes a couple of times a day.
Hope this helps!
Christine
alemama
May 25, 2007 - 7:45pm
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just wondering
Where exactly does it hurt?
tzmommy
May 28, 2007 - 12:50pm
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Thank you Christine
I thought I was using the posture correctly. I will re-evaluate in front of a mirror.
Aside from the sore hips, the posture has had promising results.
Regards
tzmommy
May 28, 2007 - 12:53pm
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sore hips
Alemama,
The hip pain I have is at the very top of my thighs, on the out sides. Sort of a mild to moderate nagging ache, only when I am in motion.
Regards,