Assessment request and image originals: https://www.reddit.com/r/posturepals/comments/14hi9q8/help_chronic_low_back_pain_going_on_4_years/jpfh1jb/?context=3
I can understand how you are in pain. Been there done that.
Actually most people these days will have exactly this shape of body. You will start seeing it all around you. Some have pain, others don’t.
These images are great. It is so consistent and illustrates the habits of your movements. Before you read on the description, I’d like you to realise that between img1 and img 3 you would have made at minimum 6 steps – but most likely more as you would have been adjusting for the shot.
On the three snapshots, we have frozen 3 results of a movement of the whole body, each at different time. Look for patterns:
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Feet always land apart at toes, together at the heels. The blue lines on the out step, now converging at the back should be parallel for proper placement of feet.
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The blue and white spots (ankles, knees, iliacs, bottom and top sternum) respectively, should all be on the green plumb line.
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You are lifting your sacrum up, arching your lower back and shortening your torso (red curve). I just copy pasted the lower back curve to the front as well, for you to see how closely it copies the shape as a protruding abdomen.
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Arms and shoulder girdle retracted back and up, shoulder blades pulled together. That has to do with how you rotate your ribcage -> backwards at the top with axis of rotation in your lower back. (L3). It’s visible on your sternum angle, leaning back at top.
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Knees are too close together, not providing necessary “base”, so pelvis is tilted laterally. There would be involved a slight rotation (sideways twist) as well. The black line above the waist I have added, is copy pasted and mirrored between img 2 and 3. Just so you understand how consistent your moving habits are.
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On img 2, I have traced your right shoulder (black dashed curve). And again, I just mirror flipped it (white dashed curve) so you can compare the different “fall of your shoulders”. You will see they are slightly different, again indicating some twisting in upper torso.
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You are pulling your head back and down, shorteing your neck muscles and arching in your cervical spine (pink curve).
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You carry your weight predominantly on your right side.