 Our next caller is Steven from Alberta, Canada. Hey Steven, how can we help you? Hey guys, how's it going? Thanks a lot for having me on. Yeah, good. My question is, how do you recommend I proceed with hip movements when I have a mechanical issue, not a mobility issue? So some context, sometime ago I had an x-ray and my SI joint is just, there's a slight asymmetry, maybe like a quarter inch out. And that has a pretty pronounced shift in how I do a lot of my hip movements, particularly back squats. There's a really pronounced jog as I come up, or single-leg RDLs or like banded pistol squats. My body weight really shifts to the one side to compensate. So, and I know it's not necessarily a mobility issue because I'm really good at, I can squat, ask the grass. I can, I'm really good with the 90-90s. So I don't know if you guys think I should maybe do a really strong regression or what? Yeah, okay, so essentially what you're saying is one joint is built. Not mechanical actually. Yeah, anatomically built. You know, I had a client once who had one leg which actually shorter than the other. Yeah, I've had that before too. And I mean, one thing we could have done is right, we could have had him just exercise with both legs with a block underneath one foot. But what I did is I did everything unilateral with him. I would suggest the same thing for you. I would do almost all of your lumbel pelvic hip exercises as unilateral. Step ups and lunges and single-leg exercises because if you put both legs on the ground, you're going to get some compensation. Which is going to happen anyway naturally because you walk, right? So you walk with both legs. So there's some compensation going on there. But the unilateral stuff will allow you to train each side independently without the other side influencing the other side essentially. So I would focus almost entirely on unilateral exercises and I think that's where you're going to find your best results. Yeah, I was going to, you know, definitely like echo that same thing because if you focus on that, you're going to be able to then understand too all those little micro compensations and things that, you know, your body will tend to have in a split stance or, you know, on a single leg type of a situation. And so to be able to slow down and isolate that and really work on stabilizing and gaining control is going to be everything. So to really go slow and then, you know, add where you feel the most instability, I would really like hone in on that and like even add in some isometric tension there to reinforce it and to really like start communicating a bit better with that process. So first of all, you can definitely build incredible legs, never doing a bilateral squat. So you can do Bulgarians and lunges and single leg exercises all day long and build incredible legs. So it's not a huge loss to not be able to do a bilateral back squat ever again. So I would train you the exact same way. Now the only thing that I would caution you is you're going to have obviously one side where there is some discrepancy and maybe a little bit weaker and you have a one side that's going to be stronger. Make sure you lead with the side that's most challenged for you. So the side that you are weaker in should dictate how you train the stronger legs. So sometimes when you push somebody in this direction to go all unilateral work and they got one side that's so much better. They keep pushing the weight in that direction. That should always be the second leg that you train. So always stick with the weaker leg and do things like Justin's saying, focus on stability and isometrics and then mirror that for the other leg. Even if you could do two, three, four more reps or 50 more pounds, it doesn't matter that way you stay even as you develop your legs. Now as far as mobility exercises, if you don't have Maps Prime Pro, we'll send that over to you. You can still do lots of mobility exercise because here's a deal with these movements, these correctional exercise kind of mobility movements. You're working with your body's own range of motion. You're trying to connect with your body. So your body is going to dictate what that looks like, right? So two people's, you know, 90-90 is going to look very, very different and you may have one side that looks very different from the other. That's okay. It doesn't matter. The goal is to challenge your range of motion and connect to those new ranges of motion regardless of one side versus the other. Just out of curiosity too, Steven, did you, when you got the x-ray, was this something you did like with a chiropractor or a doctor? Like where did you get it done? Yeah, so I had an assessment with the chiro and he recommended I get the x-ray and then we kind of, he did a few of his correctional exercises, but I haven't been seeing him since. Yeah, okay, so that's a great question, Adam. Yeah, why don't you get another second opinion? Yeah, get another opinion, work with a sports medicine expert or somebody. I'm going to go ahead and make sure. Doug, would you gift him the private forum also? So, you know, one of my favorite functional doctor chiropractors is Dr. Brink and he's, for the most part, I don't like a lot of chiropractors. That's not to say there's not some good ones that are out there. This happens to be like chiropractor 101 is to tell you you've got some sort of, your one leg's a little bit longer than the other of this and you need to come in and see me and I'm going to adjust you and get you straight and right. And then we got the supplements that also helped. That's right, that's right. So, and I had a feeling that this might have been where you heard this from. So, one, I would get a second opinion like Sal said. Two, we're going to let you inside the forum. I want you to express some of this in there publicly if you don't mind. And tag Dr. Justin Brink. That's right. Tag Dr. Justin Brink in there and tell him what you've been told and what you've seen and then see where he takes you from there. I have a feeling maybe you might be just okay. Okay. But I mean, I did see myself on the x-ray that there is a definitely a definite asymmetry. Sure, sure. I mean, we all, by the way, we all do nobody here. Nobody has a complete equal left to right side. Nobody does. Yeah, but it could also mean something. It could mean nothing. That's right. So, yeah. So do what Adam said and then see what happened. And if that ends up being the case, then the advice we gave earlier still stands. And I don't know for sure because I don't see you. I don't know who this was. But I just, I, the reason why I asked the question is this is a very common tactic that chiropractor. It's a bit of a hustle at times. It is. It's very, very common. Right. And so, you know, before we completely change your life and your training forever, let's get a second opinion on what they have to say about that. And then we're going to let you in the forum so we can discuss more about it. So just quickly circling back, you recommend completely eliminating bilateral movements, squats? Not until you have somebody else give you another opinion. I would say, yeah, figure that out first. And if that ends up being the case, then yeah, do that. Sounds good. All right. Thank you. Thanks, guys. Appreciate it. No problem. Yeah, the, the, it's actually not that common to have the left and the right side be different enough to where you have to completely change your training unless there was an injury. Like if somebody tore something or broke a bone. You're in a car accident and shifted everything. Yeah. But more often than not, like you said, Adam, you have a car park. I'm like, oh, here we got some, look at the spine here. A bunch of adjustments will fix this, whatever. Or I can see that your SI joint here is very different. They're therefore have to treat it. That's right. Oftentimes it's muscular, you know, like for example, you could have a shorter leg, not because your bones are shorter, but rather because one side is tighter. Your QL, right? It's a muscle that attaches at your hip. Could be shortened on one side and correctional exercise could balance that out. Now you could also have a shorter leg because the bone is actually shorter, like the guy that I talked about earlier. All right. And look at it like the tension of rubber bands and like holding everything in place and, you know, and they, they look definitely from a skeletal perspective. And so if anything is like a little bit off, a lot of times I think that just manually That's right. Manipulating it is going to, you know, get you back in alignment. However, most of the work is going to be, you know, adjusting muscular. That's right. And a lot of times it's literally just a stability and strength issue that's going on here that's causing some sort of a shift in the squat. More often than not. Yes. More often than not it's that. But then when you go and see someone like a chiropractor and do that. Now, again, I'm not, I have no idea, but, and I could be speaking at a turn, but in my experience, I took a lot of clients like this that we completely resolved the issue by getting them more stable and strong and more mobile because it wasn't something that crazy, you know. And everybody is not, is perfectly symmetrical. I mean, so. But you got to be careful, you know, when you're talking to a hammer, everything looks like a nail. I tell you what, I've had, I can't tell you how many clients I had that would go to a surgeon because of joint pain. And the result, the advice from the surgeon was almost always surgery. Right. Oh, your shoulder hurts. Because they know how to fix things with surgery. Yeah. Oh, this is what we saw. There's a little bit of a tear here. I can scope that. I can do whatever. And almost all these people through proper exercise ended up not having to go get surgery. And you see this with chiropractors sometimes as well. But again, we could be wrong. It's just, it's not that common to have a really anatomically different SI joint from one side to the other, unless there was like maybe a major injury. Well, he also didn't lead this conversation with, oh, I've been dealing with all this pain and all this issue. And so then I went to go figure this out. Right. It was like I went and saw a chiropractor told me I have this. Surprise. Yeah. Mm-hmm. So.