One leg longer than the other? Leg length discrepancy test and strategies
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- Опубліковано 13 жов 2020
- Are you wondering if one leg is longer than the other? You can do this simple leg length discrepancy test at home without any expensive tools. Just grab a ruler, cutting board, or a book!
In this video Matt shows you how to test for a leg length discrepancy. He explains training modifications if you have a true structural leg length difference. He explains how to fix a functional leg length difference with proper training strategies. To make sure you train your body properly, you want to first confirm that you actually have a true structural leg length discrepancy and not just a functional leg length discrepancy.
Once you know what you're dealing with, you can make sure to train your body to maintain symmetry and symmetrical function in your body as best you can!
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OMG I just laughed out loud! I totally love the end thank you for the humor and the sarcasm !
Love it 😂
Here’s my question
So my left side is pulled up higher.
The exercise standing on the step I’m letting the other leg hang, do you recommend doing it on both sides or just the one side??
Also my left hip is pulled up higher and rotated forward however I notice on the right side my back muscles on the right side of my vertebrae are more pronounced and developed, I am assuming this happened because when I was bedridden for two months straight I would try to only pull myself up on the right side propping myself up on my right elbow and I feel like I was constantly developing that right side but then I am wondering if the left hip being higher is simply from an injury I had as a kid that has shown up in Xrays for years
Thank you so much for your time and your energy
It’s such a relief to find some thing that you want to watch and settle on one thing versus constantly searching and bouncing back-and-forth to multiple people thus feeling overwhelmed and scattered.
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Very VALUABLE Video!! - Most DEFINITELY, It needs a SUBTITLE! - Embedded or burned SUBS within a Video are NOT editable. UA-cam provided, and automated Subtitles are also VERY »BAD to translate. Due to many factors like: »no Punctuation, Pronunciation, mumbling, fast-talk, Audio/Sound etc..« ---» A »» SOLID, manually added SUBTITLE / TRANSCRIPTION-Text, on the other hand, would give this great Video even more depth. That way, MORE international viewers would/could join in - since they would/could translate to their native mother-tongue »the CORRECT way. ---» Subsequence (later) modifications (adjustments) can still be made, right!? So, WHY waiting? - Any chance of doing so?
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Again, the displayed one is NOT editable! Hence: Very bad to translate.
Sir pls help me out
My knee are not equal again since I had accident and still healing
Pls do this exercise help also
I'm a licensed massage therapist. I see functional leg length discrepancies all the time. They can be caused by a spinal reflex issue as well, but Matt is spot on here. Very good description of what is going on in these situations. It is so rare to find "trainers" who really understand what is happening and problem solve appropriately. I'm a huge fan of Upright Health! Thank you!
Glad to be of service!
I have been in chronic, progressive, referred pain for almost 5 years now (39 y/o M). The pain manifests in my L5/Sacral region but I have never significantly injured my back, the best diagnosis I have received to date is an S1 impingement secondary to SI joint hyper-rotation. I can’t seem to find a practitioner of any sort who will legitimately and proactively help!!!
Are you taking about something like a vestibulospinal reflex from a head tilt due to c1/c2 subluxation?
@@LiMitZplus No. The closest I have to a definitive diagnosis to date is an S1 nerve imp secondary to spinal stenosis as indicated by MRI however it is not believed to be the primary cause. During my initial experience exactly 5 years ago it was eventually ruled a SI issue in which I was found to have a discrepancy of +1.75” LL...which was promptly relieved, as was All associated pain, temporarily of course.
If you are serious about offering any help and are interested please reply and we can go from ther. Thank You!!
@@bradoshaholmes2867 I wasn’t talking to you but was the leg length difference measured on X-ray?
Thankyou!! been looking for a definitive way to see. Standing I have 3cm difference giving me si and hip issues but this test proves its a tilted pelvis.No one else on youtube has come up with this clever test well done
🙌Finally! Been waiting 35 years for this video! 👏👏👏 Thank you for the very thoughtful and extremely thorough information. 🙏🏼
It is much appreciated.😃
You are so welcome!
Thank you for having such high quality videos that simply describe the cause of the problem and how to fix it. I've been a runner that has had fai surgery on one side and struggled with injuries due to asymmetry, and wished I had seen this 5 years ago
man thanks so much, I've been looking for years for such a quality explanations of this issue, and you answered almost all my questions in a single video
Thank you! The content about this topic is rarely found on UA-cam but is very useful for those who have this type of issue.
Thank you so much for posting this.
I've had a total knee replacement and am feeling leg length discrepancy.
This video is encouraging.
I had double knee replacement & 1 year after I started having back pain. I’m dealing with it now a few years later.
Thanks Matt! I’ve put off figuring out my misalignment all through college. Not that bad of pain but knew something was off. Your case of functional leg discrepancy literally nailed it. Exact case that I have. Going to do that exercise you showed and look for more things I can do
I really liked how informative this video was. One of the more informative ones that I’ve seen extremely helpful
Glad it was helpful :)
thanks so much! I was able to tell my right femur is longer than the other. This finally explains why I've had IT band syndrome on my right side for so long no matter how many times I rehab it, it always comes back. Time for a heel lift in my left shoe!
I've been living with one leg shorter since I can remember. I've been doing similar stretches - I'm a therapist - but this video has shown me how much more I can do to help the problem. Thank you .
Same, I hate it I just wanna be a normal person
Thank you so much! It helps a lot as I’m confused about what to do with my structural and functional leg discrepancy
Excellent video. Thank You for the valuable information. You e won my subscription!
Thank you so much for this wonderful information
This is SO helpful! I have been very "lopsided" in strength and flexibility for DECADES. Now I know some knew things about how to train better. (Like, for sure AFTER I measure my legs to see if they're the same length!) ;-)
Thank you, this is extremely helpful and useful for me.
You never fail to impress 👏
Thank you, very informative.
WoW. Thankyou for making this so easy to understand ❤️♥️〰️ I have a leg length discrepancy 😢. Soo good to hear you today.
This was so helpful! Thank you. I'm curious about what shoes you are wearing. Can you please share?
oh my you are amazing ive subbed purely for this one video
Thanks for subbing!
Thanks for the insight
Sadly I got more information for this FREE video than I have from visiting numerous professionals. Thank you 🙏🏻
Me too. Leg length discrepancy started in my pre-teens maybe. Was told at 24 that one leg was shorter and to put .25 lift on my shoes.
In my 40's I was told that the discrepancy was functional owing to a fall in childhood.
Am now 77 and am in week 6 of my first experience with sciatica on the alleged short side.
A nightmare of pain and weakness in the leg that has caused at least 10 serious falls.
This is the FIRST advice I've ever found to tell the difference between a true discrepancy due to bones (have never seen proof of this) and functional, which has always made more sense to me.
Hopefully, when I heal from this episode of sciatica, I can start exercising again to avoid this pain in the future.
Had this my whole life but my hips are now hurting at 49. No doctor has been helpful and shrug it off as aging. Thank you!
Most doctors are 🤡's
perfect demonstration
Love all your videos, thank you. I just got my hip replaced last week and my new hip leg is definitely longer now… I’m very concerned that my previous hip arthritis caused my 2 bulging Lumbar spine disks, and I am wondering if you know of any exercises or stretches that can restore proper functionality after a hip replacement?
Thank you...great helpful info!!!
Glad it was helpful!
Great video!
Love everything you teach. My left leg is shorter because of an accident years ago, it shorter from my knee down, as the years went by my hip is not even. I'm going to try what you show, thank you
Hey, do you cured this issue? do you also have muscle disparity below knee ?
Do you have other videos for structural leg length discrepancy? Thank you!
Great video. I like your demeanor. I get tired of the “In your face “ videos. Good job.
Thanks great info 😊
I am so thankful... so you say I should strenghten the shorter leg's side... this is huge help.. I could hardly decide if I should do or rather complete the difference with some aid... (in the shoe of course there is aid).
Could you show some more basic excercises for this problem, please?
Blessings from Hungary
This is great man! Really enjoyed this and learnt a lot! So thank you!
Thank you for this information I always thought that I have a leg discrepancy but I am not thank you again
Thank you.
Thank you!
Thank you so much for this I thought something was wrong with me cause my left leg is longer and weaker than the other and I notice my back would sometimes have sharp pains cause of the misalignment, I trust I’ll get better with these tips and learning better ways to help myself thank you cause I’d didn’t know what to do
I have a problem in my Lumbar sciatica..L5L4 I'll try your excersise ok thank's.
Does golf player get this discrepency too? I am going to fix mine. Great video thanks!
I love your shoes! What brand are they?
Thanks !
great video for excercise instruction to address assymetries that occur with leg differences. But I can't "fix" the difference w/o a prosthetic lift or surgery.....
Excellent informed. =)
This is a great video. As a vocal coach, I can say, you are wise, intelligent, a great speaker/communicator and choose such mature words/ways of speaking for such a young fellow. I’m impressed!
I have uneven hips due to lumbar sciatica..problem..
I need some help , I can’t find any doctors around here to help me with this . I know my left is longer than my right . Nobody can determine if it’s functional or structural, including me . I need to fix this so bad
This was very helpful! Thanks😊
Hi!
While watching your video, I'm wondering: can leg length discrepancy also be caused by laying on a one side dented mattress for too long?
Hello. Exactly what specialist should I go see about uneven hips/leg length?
Hello, thank you for posting. My doctor says I have the discrepancy but gave me no reason as to why. So, I am not sure if my condition if structural or functional. I was just told to adjust my shoe inserts. Should I trust my doctor? Thanks!
Dear Sir thank you for this very informatics video but Sir how can I treat my right TIBIA short then left leg tibia. kindly give me some technique that I can fix my legs tibia .Thank you .
Very interesting! I have been dealing with SI joint pain and QL pain for a year now and have been told that it is due to my tilted pelvis and leg discrepancy. I have been working on strengthening the glutes and core muscles with clams, bridges etc. for quite some time now and stopped doing rdls en lunges because it made the pain worse. But still to this day I dont know wether I really have a structual leg discrepancy or if the tight back and hip muscles are causing it. I will do this test for sure! I am very curious! Thank you!
I’ve been having the same issues with the SI joint pain and tilted pelvis it started when I was triple jumping. Have you found any exercises that helped those problems?
@@Zoro_1005Yes I did and after a year of trying a lot of stuff it is finally starting to reduce my pain! Instead of weight exercises I switched to banded glute exercises (clamshells, hydrants, leg lifts) and lots and lots of bridges in combination with lower core exercises to engage the deeper core muscles (the ones you feel when you cough that's always a good guideline). On top of that I try to conciously engage my lower core muscles when standing or walking to take pressure of my lower back, it was quite strange at first, but after a while my brain kinda started remembering and I don't have to think about it as often. I stopped any single leg exercises and hip rotation exercises for now because it puts too much pressure on my SI/hip. Oh ja one morw thing, try to prevent stretches or movements that put your spine in an extended C curve, I did that wrong for many many months 😅 I really hope this helps!
My left leg is longer than my right leg will that affect my fighting career?
Good morning
Does this work on hip dysplasia
can you expand more on this topic ? i didn’t quite understand if i have to exercise more the leg that is shorter or the other one, also when i squad i typically only feel sore on my left side, this is só frustrating
Melissa, I wd try doing exercises (like squats for example), with your shorter leg on a mat. Try doing singles this way as to not be putting more pressure on the longer leg. My left is longer. Hope this helps!
I didn't have a leg length discrepency until I started having issues with my adductor. My hips are level according the Physical Therapist...
Does leg length discrepancy can cause disqualification on military application?
So are you saying do more strength stuff on the shorter or longer side ?
Every time I go to the chiropractor, they always tell me my left hip is high and rotated. I’ve been going there now for 15 years. I’ve been looking on UA-cam now to try and figure out how to fix this as they help me but it never holds the adjustment that is, any suggestions or help for this? Oh, and by the way, I really like watching your detailed videos you do a great job.
I definitely have a functional leg length discrepancy and it can be so painful and has really messed up my running and ability to play sports properly. My right side is the side that's lower and everyday I have to deal with an ultra tight right piriformis and right QL. I went to countless physios and was told to stretch but it always comes back. To fix this I should focus on strengthening the high side or the low side? Also how long would you say it would take to fix this? Honestly it's the most frustrating problem I've ever had with my body.
wow same exact problem.
A chiropractor will reset your hip. Sounds like it is set in a posterior tilt with external rotation. This stresses the piriformis and QL as the lower back becomes shortened and the piriformis is overworked. Once the hip has been corrected then do exercises to build up your glute medius and your internal rotators as well as lower abdominal strengthening- core work
To help correct the dysfunction in the hip and to counteract the leg length discrepancy I went to see a podiatrist and got a Gait analysis done and he is working on building me an orthotic to not only counteract the leg length discrepancy but the mechanical effects that has been distorted over the years.
See an upper cervical chiropractor and a podiatrist. The functional discrepancy can be from a “descending syndrome” where changes in neck and cranium cause pelvic unleveling or “ascending syndrome” where a foot arch or si dysfunction causes the problem
Hi I was wondering if you ever found out how to fix this? Not by adding the heal lift or chiropractor? I’m going through the same thing and it’s caused me to not be able to be active anymore, let alone walk..
So do I train the shorter or weaker side more?
Due to distal femur fracture my left leg is short doctor advice me to raise shoes heels but this is not the solution any body have some solution please tell me
Thank you so much ❤️🙏🏻 sir for this video...My right leg is 3 inches longer than my left leg confirmed by a standing x-ray. I have a question that can I do workout with an orthopedic heel lift inside my shoe.......will it cause problem in future....???
is it possible to have a leg length discrepancy from an anterior pelvic tilt on only one side?
Is it possible that leg discrepancy occurs after physiotherapy treatment?
Can a leg length discrepancy cause muscle spasms in the hip to the toes?
Please post more exercises to address this. My left leg is longer and throws my entire body movement off both in normal daily movements and in workouts. I can't squat for this reason because on leg ends up doing everything due to different lengths.
Same bro
Get some heal lifts. They can make the difference
Pls what can I do to mine
I had accident so I broke my left leg and still healing but I find out my right leg is a little bit longer then my left leg and my knee are not equal again
Pls what exercises should I do 😢
Hi my English not good, which leg do i put the insole on? The shorter leg or the longer one?
Do we focus on the longer or shorter leg ?
I’d say shorter
I won't bore you but this is incredible important to me.
Me, too!!!
Glad it's helpful!
Brilliant test. For somebody who has a "slant" in the board, another way to determine which half of the leg it is is to look in the mirror and see if one knee is higher than the other. If so, the tibia is longer. If the knees are the same height, the femur is longer.
This doesnt account for pelvic drop/lift though. Your bones could be the exact same length and have your knees be asymmetrical
@@cillian_scott How though? If all bones are the same length, how could one knee be higher without the foot coming off the ground?
@@scottk1525
1. pronation/eversion of the short-side foot
2. abduction of the short side hip
Personally when I stand my ASIS are not the same height on both sides.
@@cillian_scott If you stand in the reference position, legs straight and feet pointed forward, there is nothing you can do to raise or lower the height of a knee without lifting your foot off the floor.
I have the same ASIS asymmetry. And I can't, for the life of me, figure out if it's because one leg is longer or because my hips are jacked up. Or both.
All of the "true leg length" measurement videos I find are completely invalid, because they measure from the ASIS (which, if higher or lower due to hip rotation would throw off the "true leg length" measurement.)
Every time I try to measure my legs myself, one of my lower legs always comes out longer than the other, but it's basically impossible to do accurately by yourself.
The method in this video makes a lot of sense, but even still, it's hard to do with precision.
@@scottk1525 Yes well my point is that for some people, their anatomical reference position stance will be with a tilted pelvis. Which means you cannot use the height of the knees to make any inferences about femur/tibia length.
Sir why this problem comes
A shorter leg can be an incorrect diagnosis, whereas the shortness is sometimes caused by a less- formed torso on that side.
How about running?
Its cause to lateral pelvic tilt
Hello 👋 I need help
I had an accident some years ago that made my leg length unequal, it hurts to walk for so long. What should I do?
If you’re doing the test to see if you have a leg longer than the other then what if you can’t tell if you’re 100% straight on the mat like maybe my heels are lined up but what if my body is not at a 90° angle. I’m worried if I’m not perfectly parallel with the edge of the mat on the side or if my body is so crooked I notice even when I lay down it slightly tilted to the right because I had pulled myself up on the right side multiple multiple times a day for two months and didn’t pull myself up on the left side
And if there was an injury when I was younger and the hip got jammed up which is visible from the x-ray, is it possible that someone did not completely heal and it stayed jammed up therefore impossible to fix and then would I train just like someone with a longer leg problem? Because I noticed when I try to do certain things with my feet together it jams up and hurts but I don’t think I was necessarily born with one leg longer than the other
Thank you.. i have left leg discrepancy which my good leg was operated on when i was a child. The uk doctor put 6 staples wrongly inside my leg. He forgot about me. Then he tried to remove the staples and couldnt. So he lied on my medical record that he removed the staples successfully.
I still have the staples in my good right leg.
The right leg continued to grow and the 6 staples that were meant to stop my leg growing failed to stop the growth of my leg.
As a young adult another doctor performed wedge resection which was to cut out the extra bone.
I still have left leg discrepancy. I am 56 years old now and the causation of that first operation at age 11 Epysodesis which was perfomed wrongly. ( i done research.. the staples were supose to be placed in my leg criss-cross. The uk doctor didnt put the staples criss-cross he put them one under the other)
I'm now in consent pain 24/7 with osteoarthritis in both legs from my spine to my ankles, have spinal stenosis, have compressed nerves, have bulgin disk, have chonic sciatica. And both my legs gives away while i walk, i could only stand for less than 2 minutes befor the extreme pain in my groin and right leg whereby my whole right leg goes numb and i cant feel the ground. I do exercises every single day so that im not crippled forever. I am an artist i paint well and was at the height in my career when i became disabled severely with the sciatica then all else followed. Only when i lay on my belly the pains sometimes stops.
My kneecap in my right leg feels lose and is extremely painful. But...... i do all your exercises for my knees, hips and my discrepancy leg.
And other exercises.... and i can make myself a cheese sandwich before my leg gives away from beneath me also the time lengthened to 4 minutes before the severe pain kicks in. Whereby i sit down before i fall down. And put my leg up higher than my bum on a chair with cushion to wait out the pain.
Im allergic to all medications and painkillers. So i use Agesal cream and a hot water bottle for the pains. And eat cherries for the osteoarthritis pain which helps....
The orthapeadic wanted to remove my knees and i told them no. That i dont want them to touch my legs ever again. I have rheumatoid arthritist in my fingers and hands. But i still paint as i love painting😊 i have carpal tunnel in both wrists and damaged ulnar nerves from using the crutches which i swap for 2 walking sticks. Now i have a torn ligament in my right elbow. But i still exercised it and my body and my legs. I think the staples are resting on my nerves causing me all this pains throughout my whole body.
Thank you for reading this. And thank you for your videos they give me hope. As i still want to heal...😊
I'm so sorry, Hope your healing I'll pray for you. My love has the same problem with leg discrepancy but I was afraid to agree to surgery...
so do your knees need to be touching?
Hey girl hey! Just dropping in to show your page some FABlife presence!
Respected sir
Left leg 2cm is shorter because of bone shorter. (Femur) can I use extra 2cm heel lift inside or bottom of the shoe for equality among short and long length leg. Thanking you. I, Rouf from Bangladesh.
Do you have limp?
I had an accident so I break my leg
Am just getting heal little by little but my leg is long than the one I broke pls what can I do to make it equal back😢
So basically if the board is slanted its a discrepancy and if it’s level it’s a functional discrepancy????? I just want to be sure I got it right.
My right leg is shorter than my left (muscle wise, not bone). I started wearing prescribed orthopedic insoles where the right one has a 0.5cm height on the heel. I can definitely feel pain kicking in my thigh and hip when walking. The outside muscle of my thigh and the back of my hip. The packaging for my insoles says to wear them 10-60mins 3-5 days a week. Hopefully I won't have to wear them for too long. I've been doing physical therapy for leg length discrepancy for 2.5 months now and I hope my leg won't be too short anymore because it's affecting my dance training.
Hey, what's the best way to measure the length? What scans do we need to take to measure the length accurately? And do you have limp? Thank you.
What about a Power step heel lift?🦋👣
Could this happen if one quad is super tight
Anything that is yanking your pelvis unevenly could put you into a functional discrepancy.
,Also, can a leg length discrepancy cause your joints to pop?
Will the knee test work if you have a functional leg length discrepency?
But how to correct it?
Sir i have my right leg smaller than the other one and my pelvis on right side is lower than left the gap is about 1 inch does these exercises help to fix it?
Yes
My left leg is just missed up ..it’s shorter by 9mm and also skinner like by a lot specially my calf
I dont have a leg longer than the other bust still unven hips
sir can you help me.i have a problem about my rightside leg
Share this with anyone and everyone that has Ankylosing Spondylitis
All I need is a website that sell me shoes with extra hills so that I can go work out and run without hurting!!
Hi sir age 37, I had to accident one year before femur bone loos also after bone graft surgery now status walking knee bend 90 degree still never remove femur digital plates and screws fracture leg length short around 3.5 cm if can increase features leg length pls let me know just oppenial thanks 🙏
I feel that if my mum had listened to me when i was 11 years old. That i didnt want that doctor to operate on my leg. I think that i wouldnt be in so much pain currently. And would have been working as a Nursery nurse or became a famous and rich Artist 😊 im on google. I can paint everything and i have many fans of my artworks. I can donate an artwork to you. 😊
i was born like that and i went to the hospital they said i could never be fix is is true?