Have you ever suffered with low back pain or hip pain? Do you have regular pain travelling down your leg? Perhaps you are sitting on the problem!

Many of us (in my clinical experience, mostly men), use our back pocket to store our wallet. While this causes no problem as you walk around, the difficulty comes when you sit down. If you leave your wallet in your back pocket, every time you sit down you create a little lift on that side of your pelvis. Check out the picture below!! See how much the pelvis and hips get thrown off when there is something under one cheek and not the other!

Are you sitting on your problem?

If you know you keep your wallet in your back pocket, you will also find that you favour one side only. Day after day of this lift on the same side leads to imbalance. In the car, at your work desk or at home, this imbalance builds up in the joints, muscles and ligaments in the area. Imagine putting a lift equal in size to your wallet in one shoe and not the other. Then walk around all day on it. Soon you would be walking around with some discomfort and most likely with an awkward posture!

Whether it’s a wallet or even a mobile phone, creating imbalance like this can lead to pain, numbness/tingling, postural compensations and tension on the soft tissues like muscles, ligaments and nerves. Of course I wish you so much abundance that you need a wallet in each pocket to carry all of your cash, but until that day, break this asymmetrical habit!

If you have been putting up with low back pain, hip pain or pain travelling down your leg, don’t hesitate to contact the clinic here or on 0871815007 for a consultation today.