Reddit reviews The Egoscue Method of Health Through Motion: Revolutionary Program That Lets You Rediscover the Body's Power to Rejuvenate It

This sounds a lot like Pete Egoscue's method. I took a basic fitness class in college and his book was required reading. It's a great book I would recommend to anyone interested in fitness. It's chock full of exercises designed to correct these "imbalances" and restore posture to correctness.

here's the amazon link

here's a youtube link

Hey, man, I know what chronic pain is like... I had sciatica for 7 months, and occasionally it comes back... Check out wobenzym supplements and http://www.amazon.com/Egoscue-Method-Health-Through-Motion/dp/0060924306

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absolutely try the Egoscue method with wobenzym supplements (if you can, change your diet to natural anti inflammatory foods as well)... the book will re-build cartilage and balance all your muscles.

Here's a good link with video and docs listing the exercise routines. It's important to do the exercises in strict order!


https://thepostureguy.com/what-condition-is-your-posture-in-832584ce0fb0


I'd recommend Egoscue's 1st book to get the background on the conditions - The Egoscue Method of Health through Motion


https://www.amazon.co.uk/Egoscue-Method-Health-through-Motion/dp/0060924306

One of the problems is that low-quality shoes generally take a while to reveal their crumminess. You might have to walk a couple days in them to really see how bad they are. In the case of my Skechers (see other response in this thread), it took a while before I noticed that half of my middle toe was numb 24/7 (not front or back half, the whole right half!). Then I noticed that I was losing feeling in other toes, too - not to mention the nice scabs I had from where the toe cup cut back onto the top of my foot. I was in a job where I had to walk all over a very large restaurant for long hours several days a week.

The $30 I paid for the Chinese ones I bought in Japan was a bad choice, but I was broke. The Skechers were like $60 or something - though I did get refund for them. I concede that price may not be an indicator of "quality." The Chinese shoes caused my ankles to tighten up significantly, because, as I discovered, the flex point in the sole was too far forward, causing my lower leg muscles to contract with each stop (to hold the ankle in place). That combined with the heel being a tad too thick caused my ankles to get all sorts of tight. (EDIT: I think that Converse All-Stars are "good shoes" because they let your feet be your feet and don't try and control where they flex - so price is not necessarily an indicator of whether a shoe will screw up your feet.)

Regarding quality, I believe that most people don't know how to evaluate shoes because they don't know how their feet are connected to their knee stabilizing muscles. Essentially, people blame pains they have on their knees or ankles when they should really blame their shoes. The problem is that the shoes have too much cushioning in the sole. When the sole provides too much cushioning then the nerves in the feet are incapable of sending quantity-of-force and direction-of-force nervous signals to supporting muscles around the knee. This is because the sole's softness dissipates the forces coming into the foot, providing a confusing signal for the nerves in the feet. So, the leg muscles do not properly stabilize the knees because they don't know how to do so (the muscles don't get the correct information about the directions of force they would protect against). Ironically, people are convinced that shoes with "more support" are somehow better for them. This can't be true.

If you want to fix your knees walk barefoot on hard surfaces at least part of the time everyday. You will learn, by use, how to place your foot on the ground, because mistaken use is painful. This will help to retrain your leg muscles at stabilizing your knees - though there are exercises which are even better, which I don't know that I could describe in textual form. The foot should be placed heel, ball, toe and in a direct straight line where the ankle lies under the knee lies under the hip. If you need exercises to correct that (it's safe to assume that yes, you do) see Pete Egoscue's book Health Through Motion. Regarding the nerves firing to your stabilizing muscles, Pavel Tsatsouline's book Power to the People discusses this in the context of why you should not lift weights with gloves on - for safety. This last is because, like the feet, the hands have nerves in them which perform the same function (stabilizing elbow and shoulder by providing direction-of-force and quantity-of-force data to supporting muscles).

> I have messed up joints.

How bad are they messed up? I was able to fix my shoulder problems with some exercises in a crappy book from the 90s I found at my local library. I know it sounds kind of dumb but maybe it can help? The only problem is it is a lot of work. I continue to do about 45 minutes of physical therapy type exercises every day just to counteract my relative sedentary lifestyle and maintain healthy joints and posture.

I don't know if this is complete bunk or not. Nobody else seems to know anything about this guy and there is no medical papers or science to back him up. :/