Your suffering and obsession has brought you immense wisdom, Neal! And I don’t mean obsession negatively-I’m just as obsessed and I only wish I’d found PRI sooner. It’s funny how much you can learn about life by understanding yourself. Great stuff as always 👍

@NealHallinan

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

Yep that checks out. I have adhd and tend to unconciously hold tension in my muscles. Its a vicious cycle of being hyper aware of irritation ehich is distracting and irritating. The tension increases and repeat.

When you’re in pain, your world shrinks. If you’re also shrinking away from unpleasant things around you (like a dysfunctional relationship or crappy working environment) then you can end up feeling isolated and even ostracising yourself. It’s stressful and lonely and can become self-perpetuating. Holy moly…pain, shrinking, dysfunction, stress and self-perpetuating - it’s like an analogy for being stuck in the left-AIC pattern. And neither one is any fun. Thanks again for making and sharing these videos.

I am definitely #1 - my eye hand coordination has always been outstanding and I was an athlete for most of my young adult life - everyone would say what an incredible athlete I was, however I was always aware of not feeling as stable on left leg (and as a ski racer, tuning to the right was more difficult) - so it’s interesting for me because I have SO much body awareness and every trainer had no idea what I was talking about because I would pass all the tests - and I was always trying to “correct it” was various modalities which I think just made even more compensatory (along with a PT who told me my right leg is shorter and I remember looking at him like “even I know this requires scanning to confirm and is extremely rare”) - grateful for PRI, I’m 2 courses in and it’s really helping me better understand the work I’m doing with my PRI PT - everyone - family and colleagues still think I’m crazy (what are you talking about?”), but I finally feel seen thanks to PRI

This is a incredible Video! I have severe Left AIC problems. My left hip is anteriorly rotated my right shoulder is Low and I’ve now been diagnosed with slipping rib syndrome on my left side I never noticed I had any of these problems when I was working out except for some hip pain but once I went to the doctors and I found out about these problems they suggested I stop working out and once i did that my pain has just went crazy ever since. I haven’t been in the gym for awhile cause I thought rest would help but it has done nothing but make my problems worse I’ve also just haven’t been happy at all and your video is helping me realize being unhappy and inactive can be a big deal for the problems I have.

Thank you Neal! Geat video as usual

@NealHallinan

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

Neal, thank you for another great informative video!

@NealHallinan

2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome, Mitchell.

Great video. I’ve often wondered why I’m in a Left aic pattern with no pain, but your comments about bodily sense makes complete sense - I’ve always been very aware of my movements and position (I was the kid who obsessed with getting my deadlift form perfect in the gym rather than how much weight was on the bar) and I noticed something was off as soon as my pattern started and found PRI from researching about left and right asymmetry’s. I believe had I been ignorant to it it would have progressed to pain. I also believe my hyper mobility could play a role, being able to be comfortable in positions that others would be at the limit of their motion. I’ve been Deep diving into your videos and other practitioners on instagram and am loving learning about PRI and applying it to myself, and am making significant progress towards neutrality (believe I have a fairly straightforward case). I’m even strongly considering a career in PRI! Thank you for all you do Neal 🙏

@NealHallinan

2 жыл бұрын

Good to hear, TT.

Your last point you made about happiness. I had a really big problem with my wife back in August 2020 and that's when the pain was unbearable. I remember having psoriasis in 2012 that was a big shock to me I was only 21 and I think the stress from seeing my skin rashes covered a lot of my body was depressing the same year when my back pain started. And right now it all makes so much sense Neal

@NealHallinan

2 жыл бұрын

Family issues are always very stressful and difficult on the body.

I just wanted to say thank you so much for your channel, knowledge and passion for helping us get over pain and understand the asymmetric make up of our body that causes this. I recently had to go off sick from firefighting as my back was in spasm and I was barely able to move. I had 3 physios sessions which helped but I ignored his advice about strengthening my weak long left hip flexor when I found your channel and focused on the 4 hip shift exercises and breathing into my left lower back and into my right ribs and up into right upper chest. As a result I didn't have to cancel my first ski trip for 2 years and by focusing on your techniques my body got better and better every day. I was actually scared before I left that as usual my back would lock up as I skied. Thank you so much for your guidance and openness, getting that ski holiday and my freedom of movement back means the works to me. Would it be ridiculous to ask if you can recomend any you tube channels for overall fitness and strength training? I currently do yoga with breath and flow and hiit with growing with Anna but fear both of these are not congruent with your overall fitness and strength training philosophy....

@100bbailey

2 жыл бұрын

Couldn't agree more with the themes of this video. Happiness, openness, being curious as opposed to being angry, scared, tense, thinking you know have lead to times of pain for me.... On the pathology of open Thomas test what do you recommend to stabilise that left hip joint? Maybe strengthening that hip flexor is correct as well as doing your hip shift exercises 🤔

Super useful videos Neal! Thank you so much for sharing all of this knowledge. I have had this issue for many years, though it went unnoticed as my body learned to compensate. In the past 5 years, however, it got worse and worse. I have recently been checked by a chiropractor who was finally able to explain what is going on. I am now going to her once/week for adjustments, blocks technique for stabilising the pelvis, I do your 4 basic exercises as often as I can. I have just started my journey towards recovery. But I feel like my mental power is failing me. I feel like I will never do what I dream to do: weights and boxing. I'm 33 yet my body feels like 90. Can someone with already chronic symptoms recover? How can I survive this? I'm strong, but I'm tired.

great advice!

I do love these Neal. These stories from your dance studio, the story with this person getting a mate, job, and glasses. This argument overall was so nice just to hear from you. Loved it. And Gina, „easy-going”. Very human video :):):)

@NealHallinan

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Maciej. Hope you are doing well and still dancing!

@maciejsiedziako680

2 жыл бұрын

@@NealHallinan Yes!! Still dancing, salsa level S1 now :) All thanks to your story man. As rare as it is, this is my happy place, at the floor exercising rhythmically, meeting people, smiling to people. In april I'm getting an "ALF" like appliance to expand my maxilla - I pray for miracles with this, to be finally free from neck/cranial driven pattern. Please enjoy your PRILife-journey Neal. Share with us when you can :) Cheers man!

Great stuff!

Thank you 🙏

I have that mind tension I really feel it I have social anxiety and shyness I feel that mind tension wich makes my neck goes down to feel good alittle bit

how to get neutral when sitting? or while in seated position? is it like we have to stand and feel the ground every once in a while? or here is when we use teeth as our reference? I feel like i get messed up mostly when i sit.

Hey Neil I'm not sure if you did a video on sleeping positions (back, sides or belly) with the Left AIC pattern. I wanted to know if how we sleep can make the existing pattern worsen or better, or if it doesn't matter at all.

i just didnt found my case can u help me im statrt suffring so hard im like a right bc pattern in my upper body i have an externel rotation in my left leg that causin an q angle and left pelvis is movin back to the left and my right pelvis moving left forward my left pelvis is like falling down and i feel like i have a short left leg and my left pelvis is close to my ribcage tyy

1) if those other reasons influences pathology..can someone then become non pathologic or symptoms less just by fixing those other reasons? or PRI exercises are still needed? 2) Someone who can't resolve those other issues .. let's say unhappiness, anxiety or even getting a mouth guard .. can they still get some benefits by doing those PRI exercises (specially SI joint Pain)? 3) If people can be symptom less even with left aic right BC pattern then how can someone deduce for sure that the causation of these symptoms are because of left aic right bc pattern.. can there be other pathology like muscle weakness responsible for those symptoms?

I've also noticed that the more challenging someone's life circumstances are the worse off they are with PRI techniques. Sometimes even their pain gets much worse with PRI. This is why I have a conversation with someone before taking them on as a client.

Interestingly enough, I've definitely stretched out my anterior hip capsule and definitely my left shoulder, but I've never been in pain. I found PRI because being stuck in the left aic pattern was preventing me from being as athletic as I would like to be. I've always noticed that running would feel inefficient, and that lifting always felt off but I was never in pain. Strange Appreciate the videos. Liked as usual

@NealHallinan

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Do you feel more efficient now?

@ladskius3359

2 жыл бұрын

@@NealHallinan Yes absolutely, PRI is great!

Hi sir, i was confused. PLEASE TELL THE ANSWER FOR MY QUESTION. * if i sit in bow& arrow position, my right knee goes down more than left knee and also my right foot heel rotated externally. * My right hip is hiked up and my right leg also longer. * Always my right back muscle is bigger than left back muscles. * My right foot size is larger than left foot size. PLEASE GIVE ME A SOLUTION SIR ...........

Not on topic, but I would love to hear if you have thoughts on operating a clavicle fracture (middle part) vs natural healing, which involves a tipical shape change which could worsen right anterior superior compression of the ribcage?

@NealHallinan

2 жыл бұрын

Honestly I don't really know. I certainly wouldn't want to tighten up the right apical chest wall, however.

Hi, Can my shoulders be uneven (left shoulder higher) even with a neutral pelvis? What does it take for my shoulders to become even again? I am flat footed as well. Thanks.

@NealHallinan

2 жыл бұрын

Left shoulder can still be higher and may remain a little higher. It's normal.

Hi neal .i have tight right smc.i am also having tmj issues.my face is assymetrical.i dont have any pain in my body. am I in RTMCC pattern? I live in Bangladesh.there is no pri trainer close to me or i cant afford an online session . Can give me some suggestions? There is no pri trainer near my area.

Neil, I've watched this video and most of the rest of the videos on your YT channel and I have one question to which I can't find an answer: Ok, say I do the exercises. But what about the very many trigger points that this postural situation created in time? I've been walking with this issue for the past 5 years and it only got worse and worse. Those trigger points formed because those muscles have been constantly 'on'. How can we improve these? Starlanyl and Sharkey mention in their book, 'Healing through trigger point therapy', that muscle strength cannot be restored in a muscle which harbors TrPs. First we need to turn these off and then proceed to strength. What's your take on this? Have you suffered from multiple, active TrPs? If yes, how did you treat them?

@NealHallinan

2 жыл бұрын

Muscles turn "off" via appropriate sensory input. Working on a muscle to change the behavior of the muscle misses the reason that the muscles are "on". It's a brain issue, rarely an actual muscle issue. The muscle will be just fine once the brain received the appropriate sensory input so it can process the appropriate muscular output. I've never had to do any trigger point therapy on anyone, nor myself. hope that helps.

Hey Neal, I have issues with my right chest wall being really tight, and my left rib being externally rotated, while my right rib is internally rotated, is there any way you can direct me to some exercises that best help with this issue? Thanks, love your content!

@NealHallinan

2 жыл бұрын

On my website. Beginner Program. Link is down in the description.

Hi Neal, I understand that under every PEC there is a Left AIC and Right BC pattern. What are some pieces of evidence to let me know that I'm out of the PEC and ready to start working on the Left AIC / Right BC part? Thank you!

@NealHallinan

2 жыл бұрын

Once you can adduct your right leg, you are no longer a PEC in the pelvis. The adduction drop test is what you use for that.

I know you stated that everyone has a left AIC pattern but from what I've seen its usually someone with a higher left shoulder rather then the right shoulder being higher with the body trying to compensate. If you have a right shoulder being higher would that mean that you are left AC and right AIC pattern?

@NealHallinan

2 жыл бұрын

It's more normal to have a higher left shoulder. If a right shoulder is higher, I start to get suspicious, since it's not the norm.

Hi Neil, one quick question. Won't make more sense in a right TMCC pattern to actually sit on the right hip bone since the jaw deviates to the right ? i've noticed im getting better results like this , so i just sit on the right hip bone , with right leg straight , left leg at round 45 degrees oriented left like 15 20 degrees.... noticed that actually jaw started to move, eyes also open up on close up work like the ciliary muscle releasing ( since we are both farsighted makes sense to work up close to find the active focus mechanism and i think i found mine ) thanks.

@NealHallinan

2 жыл бұрын

The jaw deviates to the left in the R TMCC. If it’s to the right, it’s likely due to torque in the cranium (like I was torqued). What you may find is that you actually access the left side of your body more easily than the left.

@NealHallinan

2 жыл бұрын

In regards to vision, I have a feeling that mispositioned mandibles compress our cranial/inter-oral space and for some reason make our eyes work too hard, makes us over-focus. This is why my life fell apart last year after getting Invisalign. My eyes went crazy.

@adriangpuiu

2 жыл бұрын

@@NealHallinan well my jaw actually deviates right 2 - 3 mm like kind of stuck on that left hip bone, way bigger left eye and a way bigger left nostril, the problem is that actually i have no arch on my right foot , its almost flat and the arch on the left its there most of the times cause i always used to drag that left heel towards me, until i actually broke the right canine and i have no contact there , i had to go to dentist and redo my oclussion and even the dentist told me like man but you do have a proper left no joke cause she noticed i can actually rotate the jaw to the left because the left canine blocks that movment, i can only acess it to the right . in regards to compression we need to stay chin tucked because of the strong glutes cause we used to clench and squeze ..if you know what i mean... i managed to unlock most of it and the trick is actually to pivot on the heels most of the times ... the dentist sugessted to expand my left side of the face cause its way smaller then my right... I stopped clenching and now my jaw moves like a cows eating grass when i walk bloody hell, kind of ridiculous but got access to everything now.if i find anything new will let you know Neil, thanks once again.

@adriangpuiu

2 жыл бұрын

@@NealHallinan i was same in redards to vision few ears ago wen al lof a sudded went from +4 to +1.50 , my brain just went crazy.... i thought i lost it , muscle spasms and etc, i had to cut off coffee and plenty of other stuff took me almost a year to stabilise with new glasses. i think the compression it's actually because of improper shoulder mechanics. i prop my self on the left elbow most of the times and now ive just learnt to floss that medial nerve , i saw a vid on motivationaloc and another from zac cupples, works wonders actually and i no longer have that horrible compression. and now i actually feel when i get tensed. and i just turn a bit the head left and look up left to get release it and that inflates also the right pec with air. most probably thats the direction i should orient my self to push air into left pec cause its almost inexistant since the right pec its way bigger.. PS : flexion at the lumbar spine is it not associated with c spine extension ? i think we actually need more extension at the lumbar spine and more flexion at the cspine .... what do you think ?

One thing I've noticed is that I can fall back into the pattern without actual pain but the autonomic symptoms do return. Any idea why this is?

@NealHallinan

2 жыл бұрын

Pain is your brain’s way of telling you that something has to change. Autonomic symptoms are a sign of systemic imbalance. I know my system is out of balance when my skin breaks out. No pain, though. Happened just recently. Turns out my prescription changed by .25

Would you say it’s more common to have right side pain in left aic right bc. I have zero pain on the left side and lots on the right

@NealHallinan

2 жыл бұрын

It can be either side. On the right side it's usually due to too much compression, the inability to unload the right side effectively, which of course requires a functioning and stable left side.

@LiMitZplus

2 жыл бұрын

@@NealHallinan yup. It’s weird because I feel I can get into my left side feeling hamstrings obliques and what not but the inhibition of the right is slow going

What can someone do with a negative thomas test and they are in the left AIC pattern ? If their leg goes all the way down the table and their ligaments are loose and they have an unstable hip, is that treatable? What can be done for that? PRI techniques? I guess my question is, are those ligaments permanently stretched out?

@NealHallinan

2 жыл бұрын

Anterior left hip instability is a "patho left AIC" issue, and the vast majority of people who see me have path left hips. PRI is made for this issue, it's where all treatment actually starts. You need left hamstring, adductor, anterior glute med, internal obliques to stabilize the left hip. It's all standard PRI.

@mddruns

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

please update us on the splint

@NealHallinan

2 жыл бұрын

It's going well. I will eventually make a video about it.

@kevinleete8549

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah a discussion about the dental splint would be great Neal as I think I need one and it would be good to hear your thoughts on them.

Heartburn occurs when doing PRI exercises, is this normal or should not happen?

@NealHallinan

2 жыл бұрын

I'm not sure why that would happen. Have you investigated "hiatal hernia"?

@malyuta911

2 жыл бұрын

@@NealHallinan no

Please apply Persian (farsi)subtitle🙏🙏🙏🙏

Dear Neal, A few days ago one lady messaged me on facebook because I used to be on YJ care clinic group who is a doctor from Korea making special splints that push one side of the mandible more to adjust this instability. I mentioned you of course and tried to explain her it's all between her pelvis and mandible but she was like prone to spend thousand of dollars instead of educating herself. Have you seen on yt or somewhere those korean doctors? I know it's very helpful method but people will end after this treatment with edge-to-edge bite and would likely damage their enamel on incisors. It's not an advert and I don't suggest this method at all.

@NealHallinan

2 жыл бұрын

I had someone recently write to me (an Irish gentleman in Korea who is getting some sort of treatment), but I really don't know anything about it. What do you mean by an "edge to edge bite"?

@michaelrex9462

2 жыл бұрын

@@NealHallinan I mean when upper and bottom incisors touch together whenever you bite, like these people don't need to protrude their jaw because this special repositioning splint already did it. I've read that repositioning splint worn in long term is changing your lateral pterygoid muscle.

Aglorithm

I need reading glasses, a job and a boyfriend!

@NealHallinan

2 жыл бұрын

Amy! I hope you obtain all three! By the way, I frequently think about your cervical dystonia patient. Hope she is doing better.

If people with partners are in less pain, does that mean you’re going to give us a video with dating advice next? 😂😝

@NealHallinan

2 жыл бұрын

I’m definitely not the person to give dating advice.

With this beard you are showing us a lady killer look

@NealHallinan

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I did get one compliment from a rather attractive woman the other day. It's winter here in NJ, and it's just easier not to shave (pure laziness on my part).

@Doggomorph

2 жыл бұрын

@@NealHallinan I wish I had the same situation hahahaa