Our Body's Faulty (and Compensatory) Stabilization Patterns
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- čas přidán 23. 07. 2024
- My personal Postural Restoration journey has consisted of eliminating many of my body's faulty stabilization patterns that was responsible for so much of the chronic pain in my life.
The original problem was that I had an unrealized developmental visual problem. I wasn't using both my eyes equally. But as a child, I had no idea that this was occurring and no one else noticed it either. Apparently I should have had an eye turn.
In order to remedy this visually unstable situation, my brain had to learn to stabilize my body with compensatory muscle activity (it really comes down to the brain's fear of falling).
This compensatory stabilization came in the form of excessive tension in certain areas of my body. One such area was the base of my skull and my jaw, as well as plain old tight back muscles that created lots of pain over the course of my life.
Hey there, my name is Neal Hallinan.
The purpose of this channel is to help people understand and resolve chronic muscular and joint pain, primarily through the discipline of Postural Restoration.
As someone who lived with chronic pain for many years of my life, I know how debilitating and isolating it can be. But I also know it can be resolved.
I hold the following credentials:
Postural Restoration Trained (PRT)
Strength and Conditioning Coach (CSCS)
Licensed Massage Therapist (LMT)
Amateur Historian (AH, my own self-designation)
I live and work in the great state of New Jersey, USA.
I offer one-on-one training as well as online consultations via Skype. Feel free to e-mail me at Nealhallinan@gmail.com for more info.
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For an example of typical exercises for a beginner program, you can look here:
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Please note, this is quite generic and not sufficient for everybody!
For further information about Postural Restoration defined patterns, check out these videos and blog posts.
pritrainer.com/left-aic-pattern/
• What is the Left AIC p...
• Introduction to the Ri...
pritrainer.com/right-bc-pattern/
• RTMCC Pattern Basics
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This information is pure gold. Pure gold
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His teeth comment just made me try and my stiff neck cracked that's how I know he knows what he's talking about, great information.
Thanks so much for making this! I lost my right eye when I was 16 due to a completely random retinal detachment, since I have been gradually leaning more and more to the right and always felt like I didn't know "what straight was" when it came to balancing my head. It's turned into bad hand and right arm pain, and right hip pain too. I've started to get facial asymmetries aswell, my left side is all tensed up.
Definitely going to keep what you've mentioned in mind! Hopefully you have more videos on this :D anyways thanks again, so extremely helpful
This is invaluable information if you are aware of your body and its imbalances. Thank you.
This is all sooo eye opening.
This is exactly what I'm going through. I need to work with you.
Ms Level, if I remember correctly, your responses on the questionnaire sound like you need to work with someone in-person.
You are a genius ❤️
thank you!
Thank you for the treasure ❤
Thank you
The circle in the thumbnail precisely shows where my daily problem is! At somedays i wake up with headaches exactly in this area! Really trying to figure things out
OMG THIS IS ME! thank u Nial. Ive been trying to go to the gym to make my left side stronger. but i know something is off cause most of the time i cant feel my left side.
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. After watching many of your videos, I am sure that I am stuck over on the right side and definitely not sensing the ground on the left. Many times I turn to look at a mirror and my left eyebrow is raised up really high and my left eye is open wider than the right eye. Does this mean the left eye is not seeing as well as the right eye?
Thankyou sir I m having the same problem ..your video has helped me a lit .Thankyou ...
Thank you very much...very useful videos....do you have done something about hiatal hernia?...greets
I have the opposite. I have spent decades not standing on my right foot. or pronating that foot etc. When my doctor of osteopathy did my latest adjustment trying to walk after was very confusing. felt like I was walking off stairs I did not see, or stepping in holes and on hills even while walking in a flat parking lot lol. Im grateful for my DO
Crossbite, me too. My splint has been a lifesaver. I would add that my dentist noted that my back bottom teeth had risen slightly and shaved away a tiny amount like - a tenth of a millimeter. That made all the difference for me as I could rest my jaw naturally from then on. So a visit to the dentist or the orthodontist to look at the small details like that may be useful knowledge.
I had infection ( viral ?) in just the right ear 12 yrs ago which damaged balance nerve with hearing loss, diagnosed by ENT as Compensatory Labyrinthitis. With neck listosis to the right. With manipulstion from Chiropractor & regular Pilates spinal rehablitation , stretching exercises , am now able to walk reasonably steadily 20 yrs later but damage done was incurable.!
Bro any update?
Damage is inevitable in life. Alll we can do is try to support ourselves. We can never go back.
Its really hard to correct this on your own sadly. Im in so much pain, i need to see someone
Check the Postural Restoration website for a provider near you.
'It's probably not happening to you.' Maybe not, but I've noticed since I started watching and learning from your videos that I've had a few much less dramatic instances of incredibly poor spatial awareness, which I did take to be a result of me letting go of old sort of false certainties.
Interesting i keep knocking into stuff i assumed it mist be cos i wear glasses but it didnt used to happen till after i had my wisdom tooth out. Weird.
Neal did you have any visible muscle imbalances prior to the PRI magic having been worked? Mine are only slightly noticeable in some areas but the tension and unrelaxed nature of the right side never fails to remind me haha. Also when I do weight training at times the pump feels different from side to side...any idea why this may be.
Yes, my left thigh is bigger than my right. The different pump probably results from the different way your muscles are being worked due to the pattern, and the fact that in a pattern, not all muscles will be worked equally from side to side.
Hi Neal! How did you get over your dominant eye issue to maintain the proper posture without constantly feeling dizzy or allowing the vision issue to put you back on your right side constantly? I have the same issue. I was born with this vision issue and it certainly makes a difference. When I get into proper stance, my eyes are constantly trying to adjust and I feel dizzy, so my body reverts back to consistently being on the right side or having the right side always "on." What did you do to overcome this? thanks!
Late but look up how to decompress the vagus nerve
@@omaro758 Thank you very much! I will look it up.
for some reason i have left aic and right bc but my RIGHT eye is lower and my jaw goes over to the left
Does shoulder dislocations causing me to sleep only on left side sound like it could cause lpt and the typical right lateralized pathologies you speak about
Shoulder dislocations, yes. I doubt it's the sleeping.
Thanks again Neal. This video is very very informative. I am strongly patterned (L aic, R bc, R rmcc). I have a wisdom teeth in lower right crooked and pre molar on both sides of lower jaw pulled out long ago, not replaced. My lower jaw is shifted to the left a bit. Is that something I need to address seriously in order to get out of the strong pattern or only the exercises will do? I have no PRI expert in my country. Thank you again.
A jaw that is shifted to the left indicates an overactive right SCM muscle. Pre-molars aren't as big an issue as missing 2nd molars.
What do you mean by crooked wisdom teeth? Do you have all of them, but one of them is crooked? Do you sense your teeth on the right more than the left when you gently bring your teeth together?
@@NealHallinan Thanks Neal for your answer. I had all four wisdom teeth but had to pull out upper on both side for carriages. The lower right wisdom teeth growed distorted, seems like running short of space. I feel my left side teeth contact more comfortably as they are aligned better than right. Looking forward for your valuable comments. Thank you again.
Did u fix it ? If yes how
@@alenmenendez6717 Unfortunately no, nor did I do the exercises consistently.
@@ahadmdabdul sad to hear 😭
What if the neck is slightly slanted and never straight unless you look into the mirror and fix it?
I feel more relax when i bring my uneven theeth in a line but there is more gap in my front teeth how can i do it more proper way suggest me pls
What kind of mouthguard specifically so I can get one ?;)
Hi Neal!
I have a question. For about a year I have been practising PRI-Exercises now, all the standard ones. I have no pain whatsoever, but I can feel that I´m oriented to the right. When I do the 90-90 Hip Lift, I can feel all the correct muscles perfectily, left abs, hamstrings, interestingly left lat. The pattern also affects my shoulders. Even when doing gymnastics or strength training, I can feel the pattern, being not aligned. But I can´t keep the neutral position, it won´t stick.
One thing I have not yet fully tried, is feeling my foot, as in arch/flat foot position. Do you have any more ideas, why the exercises won´t stick?
Thank you for your videos!
Daniel Gupta
Hello Daniel. Perhaps they don't stick because life isn't lived on the ground, and the beginner exercises all start on the ground. Eventually you have to progress to upright positions that more closely resemble real life.
@@NealHallinan Thanks, I´ll try some upright positions!
are there any numbers of how many people are stuck in the left aic right bc pattern?
Probably about 7 billion people.
Hi Neal, I massively changed my body thanks to a PRI-trained professional, going from 5 degrees of hip IR to 40 and similar improvements like that in the upper body. I have come a looong way. However, I am still having major headache and tinnitus issues. I had a concussion when I was a child. I tried bite/teeth related stuff but no improvement. I also did vision therapy but have milked that as well. I think I have still right torsion issues. Next week I will try prolotherapy for the atlas ligaments for some grinding and clicking as I suspect I have atlas instability, but do you have any other tips? Any other avenues I can pursue? Thank you so much for all your content! I discovered your channel 6 years ago and it was a great relief to find out there is more to be found online than just this 'strengthen en stretch' nonsense. Thank you! Ennabassa
so how do you achieve the "sense of the ground" on the left? what is the technique to do it?
My entire channel is about sensing the ground on the right less and sensing the ground on the left more. The left AIC, right BC, right TMCC patterns are the physical manifestation of this neurological tendency to sense the ground on the right more.
@@NealHallinan yeah ok, so what techniques could one try to achieve the results and sense the ground? Or there is no techniques to do this? Apart from exercise on your Chanel? Thanks
Dmit SSS I fixed this issue with standing alternating reciprocal cranial expansion technique. Zac cuppless CZcams. Glasses acrylic mouthguard orthotics and some sacrocranial therapy (ostheopatic way)
@@lokooooooooooct thanks man. could you be more specific and explain a bit more about this treatment. What kind of glasses, which orthotics ? How does one get such treatment? And where? Thank you
So is muscle identification bad? I remember asking you about making a chart of what everything is doing in left aic/right bc patterns and you said thats not necessary, sensing is more important. This left me thinking muscle identification is somewhat negative. But im pretty sure im going to have to identify glute medius if im going to use it. Ive identified probably half the parts of my body, just touching and seeing the muscle, running it thru its functions and try to sense the symmetry, if one side is more engaged or not. but i stopped because "sensing is more important". I have no sense of where T8 or T4 is in space right now. No idea where my SI joints, scalenes or individual ribs are. The word "sensing" seems like it can be good or bad. You want to be able to have instant recall on where an individual muscle is in space right? The ability to know where a body part is Vs the sensing of overuse and compensation? Great jazz musicians practice all day then tell you theres no wrong notes. I get that its all spirals and rainbows to you now because youre a pri god but im still dumb. So is instant recall on where any given body part is in space negative? Or is that exactly what sensing is? I dont mean like oh im gunna sense my QLs and break my own back, i just want to know where everything is
Dude, great question! I look at it like this: study, study, study....where everything is, what everything does......and then, as the Buddha said, "let it go". See the big picture. I tell people not to "chase muscles".
Everybody needs more left hamstring, left IC adductor, anterior glute medius, left abs, and right glute max/med. That's a given.
Every technique puts you in a position to feel those muscles. It's all built in to one degree or another.
Those muscles will all activate properly when you are in the correct position, you are sensing your references (left heel, right arch/big toe, left abs) and you are breathing with your left diaphragm. Everything just comes back to life.
You have to operate in two planes in life. The local plane (a positive sense of self, understanding what the muscles are and what they do) and the universal plane (you aren't that important so don't take yourself so seriously/neurosensory). You have to be able to hold both planes in mind at the same time without getting freaked out about the apparent paradox.
If you get too overly focused on local plane, you lose sight of the big picture. You can't "let go" and relax.
Thanks
I suppose a map is only going to be in your visual intellectual logical brain wheras creating a map by sensing eith your body will not only be an intellectual map but a visceral consciousness of what is. You could still have an intellectuall map to put the phsyical sensory map over but a lot of people will look at the intlelectual map instead of feeling what is in their own body. And something in a drawing or map shows an ideol map and the map is not the territory as they say. All the maps of morroco wont get you to morrocco.
Did you have digestive problems?
I was always wondering is it possible that people with flat feet get into the left aic pattern?
Yes. I self-diagnosed myself with histamine intolerance since my skin issues did seem to be related to histamine levels in food. My breakouts have decreased dramatically.
All humans are a left AIC pattern. Flat feet can contribute to a stronger pattern, yes.
Neal Hallinan what helped you reduce it? I searched it and I have many of its symptoms (skin issues, bloating, and many more).
@@salahsaad5948 every single thing I talk about on this channel helped me reduce it. The entire process of PRI is helping you "re-ground" and "de-tense".
@@salahsaad5948 what are you’re symptoms do you have a white coating on tongue or Candida overgrowth
Vestibular problem. Early developmental reflex patterning issue.
Chiropractor used a tool clicked the right side of my neck, shoulder has been feeling like it wants to fall off and neck feels unstable. I think it’s my open bite putting me through this life bashing thing, I may get invisign hopefully I dont die
Just to add to this I just used a straw for my teeth in the front and my toes started twitching, my jaw started relaxing, and my neck started relaxing. Goodness gracious, it felt good, then I took it away and started locking up instantly and it messes me up mentally man.
Are you seeking help from a qualified practitioner?
@@NealHallinan Not PRI but yes a chiropractor. They were able to “fix” my neck lordosis. However I believe that there’s something else going on causing me to do this on a day to day basis.
My open bite is pretty much my last destination to get fixed, other than that I literally have gotten my wisdom teeth out, Septoplasty, quit nicotine, lowered my Adderall prescription heavily, and receive Chiropractic treatment. I have an orthodontist appointment for aligners of some sort (sent to by my dentist) because she believes it’s my open bite.
I do all your workouts, I get relief but that’s all, it’s definitely something else pulling me into this discomforting position of pure twisting and tension.
I have notes upon notes of stuff taken from your videos and Postural Restoration Institute’s website.
Side Note:
Thank you for responding. This has been probably the worst thing in my life. Everything about it tears me to shreds mentally. I am just wanting any advice. I can get PRI help but it’s going to take awhile after my septoplasty last month.
I wish I knew more so I could do something like the straw bite trick to get neutral, which did help, but something that could maintain that same contact.
Just in addition to all that. I’m 22 years old, 6’2, and 145 from 175 due to under eating and not lifting weights anymore.
how were your peripherals prior to correction? dealing with full upper dental implant process and my peripherals are on like FULL jump scare mode.
My right eye is higher than the left and my left ear is flaring out. Those should be the „normal“ outcomes of a left aic right bc pattern am I right?
But I don’t understand the mechanics behind this. Why the face shifts that way.
That is a normal outcome, yes. Generally because the right SCM is pulling on the base of the right temporal bone and putting it into an internally rotated position. This raises the right sphenoid and externally rotates the left temporal bone.
Neal Hallinan alright now I could visualize that. Right half goes up and in and kinda out because there is more muscle mass and for the left just the opposite. Thank you👍🏽
Neal Hallinan is there a way to some how relieve the occiput on the right, because I can’t side bend my head to the left as good as to the right. It’s very tight
What doctor can help address this?
What could be done if left eye's vision is partially suppressed by the brain and have the right torsion. Is there any PRI trained experts in India?
I don't think there are any PRI people in India, unfortunately.
Neal Hallinan how about in turkey, any pri people?
Bro u have Instagram?
Is sleep without pillow in supine position healthy?
Hi Neal, Hi everybody
I had a very very very special PRI experience and I wonder if someone ever hear of something like this. At some point of my PRI program my brain started to leading me through various movements and muscle contractions for about 5 months until now. The movements are not involuntary and not voluntary, something between of this. Like a very strong need. But I feel coming more and more on my left side and my pain and tension reduces every day. My guess is, that the pri techniques take away a certain stabilisatation in my body, and now my body has to go back to it's origin natural stabilisatation state. Did someone experienced something like that?
why you haven't correct your crossbite?
Well, my jaw is straight now the actual crossbite isn't really there anymore. I chose not to fix my displaced canine because I'm "neutral".
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Hi Neal! You said you did not use your left eye for decades. Did you have strabismus/amblyopia? Is it gone now? (Just asking, because it is said to be incurable.)
I believe what happened was an issue of "suppression". My brain decided to ignore the image from the left eye. So not true amblyopia.
I get comment a lot but this has literally ruining my life, 2022 hasn’t been a single day that ive been able to be productive happy or relaxed together. It’s legitimately ruining my day to day life so much, relief would make my 22 year. Mentally im so screwed because of this
i have the same problem
My left is fine. My right however ...all that youre saying about a disconnect is happening me on the right. My spine also doesnt compensate so i have a curve in the lower which should create opposite in the upper but doesnt i have it all to one side somewhow and cant rven remember which side. Where would i start with your videos as i havent a clue what youre talking about here ..
Go to chiropractor and see if you can get a lumbar dennerolle for the spine.
@@connergalles7106 would not go near one of those quacks sorry. Dunno what a dennerole is.
@@Padraigp Chiropractors suck but the one I go to takes pictures of my knees and he does do cracking, but the best part of it is the lumbar Dennerolle where they strap me down and it goes for under my rib-cage. I have the tightness on my left side and I do feel it in the middle of my torso, but when I lay on it for 10 minutes on my left side my rotation and curve feels better.
@@connergalles7106 huh cool. I had a nice osteopath who fixed me many times when i was so badly screwed. But then we moved. I will look up what a donnarolle is... might be more fun than my tenissballs stuck on an old broom handle lol!!!
Neal great video. My uncle just got one side of the muscle face, cheek and eye, paralyzed, and he has definitely a bad posture, can the posture contribute the paralyzed muscles on the face?
Hmmm....I don't know. Was it from a stroke or some other type of neurological event?
Neal Hallinan not a stroke for sure, it may be something neurological, I was just curious if expression muscles may be affected by neck or cranial muscles, I will suggest him to try PRI anyway as he has a bad posture for sure and he’s 50. Thanks
I think you meant left eye higher
How do I fix terrible posture
Zac cuppless. Standing Alternating reciprocal cranial expansion technique. CZcams ;)
@@lokooooooooooct adamantium
@@omalone1169 ???
i broke my neck in 95... Thiz iz 4sh0 an issUe im trying 2 calcUlate...
I need to be fixed like you 🙏🏽 I need your help or someone’s help I live in nj and have horizon nj health insurance
If people don't take insurance, you'll have to pay out-of-pocket. There is no way around it.
@@NealHallinan how can I work with you? Im willing to pay you to fix me
@@prajp9795 Just e-mail me at nealhallinan@gmai.com and I'll look for the email. I get so many that I can't respond to every one, but I'll look for it. But as I said, if you are going to need some sort of dental intervention, you'll have to see a PT.
@@NealHallinan 🙏🏽I just emailed you with pics 🙏🏽
I feel less balance qhen standing in my left foot. That may be a thing.
The weight is supposed to be on right side or foot when walking
I am from mumbai,india.
Can you help me?
Of course my child
@@omalone1169 how?
How can you tell if left eye vision is suppressed
See an optometrist I suppose. No way for you to know.
My 4-year research and diligent work on my body shows that this laxity and pelvis destabilization all come from left-side organ weaknesses. Particularly, stomach and gut. In my case I experimented a lot with what I eat. For example, having a beef steak on the breakfast after 18h fasting I noticed a full longlasting left side stabilization, and my hip did not drop down throughout the whole day no matter what I did. As soon as I introduced other anti-nutrient foods like gluten and dairy the pattern comes back. Why you are so obsessed with the physical side of stabilization? there is definitely a connection to organs overburden via fascia that will pull the tissues to either sides and cause imbalances. So, volume and food quality is also key.
Andrey Gladikov same with an enlarged stomach I guess when the diaphragms overlaps with it ....
@@adriangpuiuabsolutely! I fell flat on my left side while snowboarding, and injured very badly this area, maybe little diaphragm rupture is still there. My left lung sometimes is filled with fluids.
A big deal is also knee injuries. I ruptured a nerve net on my left IT band by overstretching the left quad, and my left knee hence is very thin, strained and malnurished. So, my left lympha line is compromised badly...
Key here is to know your all injuries and work them up
Yeah, I chronically has/had gut autoimmune issues and gut prolapses, diverticulitis pockets that interfere with bladder. Really very close to symptoms that Neal is talking about.
@@adriangpuiu when you google 'rolfing' and 'iridolgy' iris/eye charts you'll get an idea what I'm talking about
I've never said that diet has no influence on "patterns". Prolonged "patterns" are what result in destabilization. Anything that strengthens a dysfunctional pattern, like a diet that your brain doesn't like, can indirectly lead to de-stabilization if it prolongs or intensifies the pattern. However, you are not going to re-stabilize an unstable body simply by changing the diet. That removes a stressor, but it won't re-stabilize you.
@@NealHallinan Thank you for your feedback. I do actually both, maybe that's why it works. But I put more focus on the diet and breathing.