Caveat Emptor: Let the Buyer Beware -- an alert about WiX and their discredited website designer, Jonathan Roumaine

Not an endorsement, but a "let the buyer beware" alert:


Since you're considering working with Jonathan Roumain, there are some things you would probably like to know before you sign a contract, with him.

THE WORTH OF HIS WORD

Before we signed a contract, I told him the scope of the project (299 pages, half HTML and half Wordpress) and gave him all of the necessary links to preview the job.

The contract we signed included these four conditions:

1. full payment in advance
2. unlimited revisions
3. completion date: April 2022
4. 299 pages

HOW IT WORKED OUT

Shortly after I paid the full amount, in advance, he told me:

1. that the job was too much, for him
2. that he needed more money and more time
3. that he does best with sales funnels, not information-rich websites
4. that his rate per page is $600.00, which would have made his fee $179,400 -- about thirty-three times the amount of the contract we signed

In response to (2.), above, I proposed, instead, that he render the most important pages of the website -- 31 pages of 299 -- to save the time of redoing the entire project with someone else and to enable me to test whether the new look he and I were developing would pay off.

Reducing the number of pages (for the same money) didn't help. As of this date, the job is still incomplete and not suitable for publication.

He has balked at correcting his own errors, instead blaming me for too many "revisions". By his count, I have made 486 change requests, an average of 15-16 changes per page -- most of which are for faults in his renderings of pages such as:

1. inconsistent line spacings, paragraph spacings, margins, and font choices (size, color, boldface) (Would you find that acceptable?)
2. awkward line breaks (Would you find that acceptable?)
3. loss of logical flow of content within each page because -- by his own confession, he did/does not read the material before he designed out the page (Would you find that acceptable?)
4. missing or incorrect hyperlinks and missing trial-period payment cancellation buttons present on my published, older website (Would you find that acceptable?)
5. placing photos that had no relevance to adjacent text (Would you find that acceptable?)
6. twice, he said that he would create a video to show me how to "tweak" his work -- when that is his job (Would you find that acceptable?)
7. twice, he has gone non-responsive to my communications and done no work on my project for months

By any reckoning, for work that has been proofread before my seeing them, fifteen changes per page is a lot. These are faults that I would never have seen, if he had done competent proofreading.

Eight months after his self-declared deadline for completion, the job is still incomplete, with changes necessary on most of the pages he worked on, so they are unusable.

There are other items to report, but this is enough, I think.

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The WiX platform promotes Jonathan Roumaine in return of payment.

I informed WiX of all of the details above and they suspended his account -- temporarily.  Then, knowing what I wrote, above, they reinstated him.

That tells me something about their intelligence -- or their ethics.

The Great Reality Kazoo Orchestra

Reality is a mutable plastic medium of unknown origin or substance, with persistent or slowly changing islands of density that give it the appearance of substantiality.

Within its formless nature and with its own substance, it coalesces into tiny patterns shapes too varied -- and that change too chaotically -- to be apprehended

change too quickly unless, as the density of the coalescing forms increases, its rate of change slows down sufficiently to fall out of chaotic intensity and into a coherent definition in space-time ... 

Where, before, it was an exploded field, it becomes a tendency.

It precipitates or manifests within formless reality as "densified form-in-some-location and at-some-location" -- in relationship to All Things.  

It comes into existence as stable, resonant forms of relationship, or patterned behavior -- as tendency.

This is known as, "manifestation".

It originates at a primordial, microscopic level of existence at which "IS" and "NOT" resonate, on and off, alternately, like the snow on the screen of an old style television set -- or the hiss between radio stations -- too fast to follow, but within which discernable shapes may seem to be distinguished.  

Space is defined in terms of the relationship between contiguous regions of density; time is defined by the relative movements of those regions.  Space-time is density in motion.

From that primordial, microscopic level of manifestation come all of the more complex forms in existence.

The mutable plastic quality is the tendency for things to change slowly, persisting in relation with each other -- and for persisting things to move in relation to each others -- and for everything to affect everything else by the resonance and motion of their interactions.

All things are interconnected by the force of conscious tendency -- called localized attention - accelerated intention.  

-- that pervades throughout that mutable, plastic, conscious medium that is The Body of Reality 

-- experienced as dream (or imagination) and memory of All.

All things are consciously interconnected -- but appear to be isolated because the feeling of interconnectedness is so familiar as no longer to be noticed -- except under certain conditions.

What conditions?

Conditions of change. . .

. . . change occurring either in the intensity of experience or in the pattern of experience.  

Some experiences diffuse, and dissipate -- as with stars and memories --  they fade and lose definition, so gradually.

Others change more speedily throughout their span of existence.  From time to time, their interconnectedness with  some things phases out and with other things phases in.  

Sometimes, they go out of phase with so many things, at once, that in the field of  All Things, they lose their definition and fade out, altogether.  

New configurations follow. Endlessly.

The forgetting of interconnectedness is a kind of intentional-attentional amnesia, beyond mind.

"Change" is the resonance patterning of the Mutable Plastic Field of Reality throughout the space-time kosmic self of the mutable changing of everything, all-how.

In All Things, change occurs as relationships change -- as resonance changes, as intensity changes, as frequency and rhythm of interactions change.  A continuity called, "relationship" exists, even as changes occur continually.

In local space time locations, it's like a radio that, though existing in the field of all frequencies at once, plays only the signals of the local frequency to which it is attuned -- but which is changeable.

Some radios could, hypothetically, receive all frequencies at once -- and play them all at once!

... not unlike a giant kazoo orchestra -- only bigger and louder.

... all one instrument:  The Mutable Plastic Field of Reality

... all one performer:  The Mutable Plastic Field of Reality

... all one audience:  The Mutable Plastic Field of Reality

Change is what is sensed.  No-change is not available to the change-sense.  

Change is unconscious before we have an "inkling" of it -- and we may get a pre-conscious inkling of it before it condenses in conscious attention -- surfacing like a bubble -- or a burp.  Then, we sense and recognize it.

What does not change in life, as it occurs to us, fades below sensing, like familiar perfume -- or the sounds of traffic.  We don't notice it.  

Change highlights facets of existence, calls our attention by making something prominent.  Like a burp.

We call that, "being conscious" or "being sentient".

Yessir, in the beginning, there was The Burp.  That's life -- a series of burps.

The densest conditions change the most slowly and require the most to get them to change.  

Bursts of change illuminate the densest conditions, by contrast -- the contrast between what isn't changing and what is changing.  Bursts of attention do a similar thing.

But bursts don't change dense conditions; sustained activity changes dense conditions.

Sustained, intense activity prompts the densest conditions -- which are extremely, extremely dense and persistent -- to change -- at first, slowly, and then picking up speed like an elephant stampede.  What takes a lot to start takes a lot to stop.

The speed of light is a tendency, an outward streaming whose coherent intensity is the equivalent of density -- so that it can push the vanes of a radiometer!  

But the speed of light as a tendency is not an absolute.  The idea of it as an absolute is a leap of mind to contain what cannot be contained or even, honestly, be conceived -- an intellectual conceit justified by mathematical symbols, in which infinity is first condensed into something really, Really Large (the scientific mind) -- and then discounted as a sign of error, when merging of Quantum Theory with Special Relativity is attempted; physicists think that the appearance of infinity in a mathematical equation is a sign that something is wrong!  

Infinity is insubstantial.  Why?  "In" means, "not"; "finity" means "being finite" or definable.  In-finity means "not definable".  It's outside the realm of mind.

Except the scientific/mathematical mind, which gives form (that can be handled and manipulated) to what is formless and then presumes formlessness to be wrong.  Mind triumphs over Reality.

The speed of light, when considered to be absolute, is a mental construct that represents something presumed actually to exist.  

What the speed of light is, actually, is an inferred limit that can only be approached, but not reached.  It is an inference based on the habitual assumption that attracts the material mind -- that if it's real, it must be local and substantial.  That's a mental assumption.  

So, they concretize the speed of light, which is a tendency with some degree of indeterminacy, as a constant, which has definition.

The Mutable Plastic Field of Reality uses density, intensity, direction and the tendency to define locations in space in terms of the things that occupy them ...

DENSITY, INTENSITY, DIRECTION, and TENDENCY, together, simulate  the behaviors of atoms -- or billiard balls -- simulate attributes like substantiality, solidity -- and the clash-ability of light sabers.  Take away any one of them, no action.

For two things to occupy the same space, they must cease to be themselves and para-mutate with each other into a changing, hybrid form.  That kind of change, to occur, requires sufficient activation energy, energy greater than the tendencies of the two things to remain distinctly "themselves".  Activation energy is needed to get things started -- something like with hydrogen fusion -- or sex.  

(Commonly,  when "two things" meet, instead of merging, they meet, take on and discharge energy (resonate) and rebound away from each other, their directions of motion changed -- their apparent distinctness preserved (but resonating from the meeting -- like dating).

As we know from the science of physics, apparent matter is virtually empty space -- space defined by motions within that space, motions that are identified as, and called, "particles".  However, there are no particles, only behaviors (motions).

Oh. Space is defined by motions.

Like the Great Reality Kazoo Orchestra.

Pain Control, Sensory-Motor Functioning, and Somatic Education

by Lawrence Gold Credentials | Publications | Personal Page
Clinical Somatic Education Practitioner and Training Instructor
Certified Practitioner, Dr. Ida P. Rolf Method of Structural Integration

DESCRIPTORS

pain, muscular hypertonicity, contracture, neuro-muscular, sensory-motor amnesia, sensory-motor learning, Trauma Reflex, pandicular response, muscle-movement memory

ABSTRACT

Perhaps fifty-percent of cases of chronic pain results not from tissue damage or disease but from chronic muscular contractions maintained by sub-cortical levels of the central nervous system (CNS). In many cases, neuromuscular training (i.e., somatic education) can restore voluntary muscular control, end chronic muscular hypertonicity and eliminate the need for drugs or therapy to alleviate pain.This essay contrasts manipulative and pharmacological methods of pain-control with learning-based methods, using the analogy of "hardware" (living tissue) and "software" (brain-mediated, learned responses); it explains how muscular hypertonicity creates a variety of chronic pain conditions; and it introduces the clinical use of the pandicular response as a way to improve voluntary muscular control and relieve pain.

INTRODUCTION

While the prospect of eliminating pain via a learning process may seem hopeful, at best, a large percentage of chronic pain arises from maladaptive physiological conditioning that can be reversed through sensory-motor learning. The brain, largely an organ of learning, controls most motor behavior. We humans learn nearly all of our movement patterns, except for certain primitive reflexes. For that reason, certain forms of neuromuscular education can, in many cases, provide faster and more complete recovery from musculo-skeletal dysfunctions than can conventional therapeutic methods, alone. 

Pain of neuromuscular origin includes tension headaches, low back pain, regional muscular illnesses and TMJ syndrome. It also includes much of the pain of whiplash injuries, arthritis and other joint pain. Post-surgical pain, the chronic pains and stiffness of aging, and spasm- induced nerve impingement conditions such as sciatica, carpal tunnel syndrome, and thoracic outlet syndrome also arise from neuromuscular origins. 

Somatic Education cannot replace therapies appropriate for tissue healing; nor can it erase the pain of tissue damage (though it can often reduce it by relieving mechanical stresses on injured tissue). It can , however, provide the relief otherwise sought through analgesics, muscle relaxants, stretching, strengthening exercises, and massage. Moreover, certain forms of somatic education can bring relief faster and more completely than these other methods. 

Claims to relieve such a wide variety of conditions through sensory-motor learning -- or to get functional improvements, rather than merely symptomatic relief -- may seem exaggerated; that possibility is understandable. A closer look at actual mechanisms can clarify the matter.

BACKGROUND

Most methods of pain control can be reduced to three basic approaches that correspond to the three embryonic germ layers: ectoderm (nervous system/electrical), mesoderm (connective tissues/mechanical) and endoderm (glandular/chemical). For example, herbs and drugs (e.g., muscle relaxants and analgesics) address the chemical/endodermal aspect; skeletal adjustments and surgery address the mechanical/mesodermal aspect, and biofeedback, acupuncture, and electrical stimulation address the electrical/ectodermal aspect --to affect the other two aspects. 

Most methods of pain-control treat pain as an electrical (neurological), chemical (dietary/hormonal), or mechanical (musculo-skeletal) problem that must be corrected through intervention; something must be done to the patient to correct the problem because he or she seems unable to correct it by him- or herself. 

However, the functioning of these three aspects of our living organism is controlled largely by our conditioning and voluntary learning. Functional problems also arise from our conditioning and learning. Let's consider how that may be so.

MECHANISMS OF MUSCULAR HYPERTONICITY AND PAIN

The human brain is, primarily, an organ of learning -- of learning to distinguish one thing from another (to sense) and to move in coordinated ways. (This simplification can easily be extended to include physiological responses, such as breathing and heart rate -- but such considerations are beyond the immediate scope of this discussion about pain.) 

The brain, as an organ of learning, acquires patterns of response over a lifetime, some of which persist beyond their useful term (such as guarding after injury) and produce the wide variety of problems named earlier. Such conditions are not merely psychological, but psycho-physical states; they are the effects of life-level learning on physiological adaptation. The works of Hans Selye (Selye, 1974, 1978) document such effects.

Chronic contraction occurs under three basic conditions: injury, insult, and repetitive conditioning, all of which lead to habituations of neuromuscular activity. In the following discussion, I exclude contractures that result from nerve damage. 

With injury, a person tenses and restricts movement to avoid pain and to permit healing. This psycho-physiological behavior (and postural reflex) known as the "Trauma Reflex" (Hanna, 1988), which occurs at an involuntary level, guards against further injury and permits healing over the long term. 

Habituation can occur instantly in the case of injury or even intensely shocking events (e.g., whiplash injuries). 

For most people, the insult of an injury persists far beyond the time of healing. This persistence happens when a person tightens in Trauma Reflex during a long period of healing, during which time the brain learns a "tension habit" and the sensation of muscular tension moves from "foreground" to "background". 

In that case, not only are the muscles contracted, but the CNS is potentiated (i.e., is primed) to contract them further at the first signs of stress and to release them last, when the stressful situation is past. 

Thus, the insult of long-past injury can predispose a person to mysterious crises of pain from seemingly unrelated causes. Such pain may then be mis-diagnosed as arising from tissue damage or from genetic malformation, sometimes with unnecessary surgical consequences. 

One can often see habituated Trauma Reflex as a postural distortion; the person can feel it as pain, stiffness, and sometimes, as unstable balance. In all cases, habituated contraction prevents relaxation past a certain point; residual tension remains, often enough to create soreness or stiffness, and other physiological effects. 

With intense insult or long-term emotional stress, hypertonicity may develop over time in response to numerous conditions to which the person responds by getting tense: money or relationship problems, fear of loss of employment, or from a sudden shock (e.g., automobile accident), apart from physical injury. In such cases, the Startle Reflex, another postural reflex, recognizable as cringing, is involved and has become habituated (and potentiated). 

Finally, under long-term conditions that involve repetitive motions or that require prolonged vigilance and performance, tension of the involved muscle groups often becomes habituated. Such habituation accounts for most cases of back trouble, which involves excessive tonus of the spinal extensors, which contract during arousal into heightened vigilance. (The name for this latter response is "The Landau Reaction".) 

Though hypertonicity may result from pain, it also generates pain: muscles get chronically sore, joints get over-compressed and degenerate over time, and nerves get trapped either within the soft tissue at the site of contracture or at neighboring bony prominences. So where pain may have begun from injury, it often continues long beyond the time of injury; ordinary functional responses, when habituated, become a pain problem. 

Whereas clinicians refer to the muscular evidence of habituation as a contracture or as spasticity and treat it as a muscular problem, somatic educators call the condition, "sensory-motor amnesia" (Hanna, 1988), and treat it as a learned condition that can be dispelled through sensory- motor learning. 

My central point is this: the brain controls the musculature, and learning, to a large extent, modifies brain functioning. And we can control our learning. 

The big, gaping question, "How can learning relieve pain?" is answered "By learning better voluntary control of the involved muscles." A person can break the tension-habit underlying their pain. End the hypertonicity, end the pain. This method may require closer consideration to be appreciated.

RE-WRITING our SENSORY-MOTOR 'SOFTWARE'

Let's begin with an analogy: you know that a computer system consists of two elements: hardware and software. The physical computer, which is essentially a memory device, is the hardware; what makes the computer able to function in useful ways is a set of memories and instructions -- "software". 

Computers and human beings have certain similarities (one being derived from the perceptual/conceptual framework of the other). A computer consists of a central, electronic "brain" connected to peripheral devices, such as a monitor screen, printer, or other robotic devices -- something like a neuro-musculo-skeletal system. 

Our body is our "hardware" and our memories and skills are our "software." 

We humans learn nearly all of our movement skills rather than being born with them. Even our walking and eating patterns bear the stamp of our learning, our skill in movement, and our restrictions to movement. We also learn nearly all of our perceptual abilities, filtered as they are by our interests and beliefs as to what is important. 

Once learned, our software/conditioning predisposes us to a way of doing things, subject to self-correction according to the situation (fine tuning). For example, people tend to have a recognizable postural set; this postural set reveals a muscular tension pattern maintained, for the most part, without much sensory awareness. People get set in their ways. The recognizable, stooped posture and stiffness of an "older" person form in this way. 

A person could, with persistent practice, gradually improve their muscular control through "trial, error, and self-correction." However, few people possess sufficient discipline or understanding of how to do so. Fortunately, such learning can be systematically accelerated and enhanced by a variety of neuromuscular education techniques, each with its own special virtues and degree of effectiveness.

Some examples include Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation (PNF), Feldenkrais Somatic (formerly "Functional") Integration, Trager Psycho-physical Integration, muscle-energy techniques, Hanna Somatic Education, and biofeedback training. 

The key difference of these methods from manipulative therapies is that they improve the ability to sense the body more clearly and to control the tensions of muscular system. They provide a missing link in the treatment of pain of neuromuscular origin, which otherwise tends to be chronic and refractory. 

In many of these systems, a client/patient can be taught to rehearse appropriate movement patterns on a frequent basis -- as a part of their regular grooming/exercise regimen -- to erase the cumulative tensions of daily life. Thus, the educational nature of these approaches empowers the client/patient to become self-sufficient.

PAIN CONTROL BY USING THE PANDICULAR RESPONSE

Genetically encoded into the neuro-muscular software of every vertebrate's brain is a response whose function is to refresh sensory awareness and to bring about relaxation. It is triggered by the feeling of stiffness and fatigue, and also occurs spontaneously as part of awakening from sleep. 

This response, known as "the pandicular response", consists of a strong, steady, voluntary contraction followed by relaxation and movement. 

Most people have seen that response in action: the "stretching" of cats, dogs, and children upon arising from sleep. Astute observers of bird behavior have observed this response as "wing and leg stretching". Yawning, laughter, and orgasm are specialized versions of this response. It is part of the "operating system" by which vertebrates maintain flexibility and health. 

The pandicular response can be triggered voluntarily to relax muscular hypertonicity -- and it can be assisted and enhanced to bring about distinctly rapid sensory-motor learning and relief from muscular hypertonicity and pain. 

To date, one system of neuro-muscular re-education is known to use the pandicular response: Hanna Somatic Education.

CONCLUSION

A broad spectrum of chronic pain conditions results from muscular hypertonicity and can be resolved through sensory-motor learning (somatic education). Numerous approaches to somatic education exist; the methods of one, in particular, Hanna Somatic Education, systematically uses the pandicular response to speed the learning process. Once the tension-habit in the involved neuromuscular region is broken, the associated complaint tends not to return. Tensions that accumulate in daily life can thereafter be managed by the client, and further problems, prevented. Thus, somatic education can resolve pain and leave the client able to maintain their own comfort.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I pay my respect to the late Thomas Hanna, Ph.D., whose writings and personal instruction provided a structure for my personal somatic explorations and for my work with others. 

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REFERENCES

Hanna, Thomas L. Somatics: Re-Awakening the Mind's Control of Movement, Flexibility, and Health. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1988 

Selye, Hans. The Stress of Life. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1978 

Selye, Hans. Stress Without Distress. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1974. 

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WHAT's the Problem, Here???

The Problem-Solving Mind is an identity of our times.

An identity is something familiar to which we return by preference -- or by tendency.

The Problem-Solving Mind, to have existence, must have problems.

If it solves them, it must have more problems, to exist as The Problem-Solving Mind.

If necessary, it goes looking for trouble to find a problem to solve. It makes problems up as it goes along and treats them as if they are serious and for real, sometimes in a laughable fashion.

The point is, as long as one identifies with or as being The Problem-Solving Mind, one will find problems. One keeps returning to being The Problem-Solving Mind as a matter of familiarity and habit -- and like the bees, the problems come in swarms, sometimes.  The Problem-Solving Mind can be kept busy.

In a sense, The Problem-Solving Mind is a problem -- if it is the identity to which we return. However, if we rest from The Problem-Solving Mind, we fall into what is deeper.  It is no solution. It is also no problem.  No-Problem Mind.

No problem.

Then, conditions may arise as they may, but we are operating from No-Problem Mind.  Fewer problems arise and they are turned into no-problem.

No problem.

No identifying as or with, "The Problem-Solving Mind".

No avoiding it.

No problem.

Problem? No problem.

What Do I Mean, by "I"?

What most people mean, when they say, "I",

is a word-bound definition -- an answer to a question.

For some people, "I' is a sensation defined to themselves as, "self" --

a stress pattern mistaken for self.

"I" is neither of those.

"I" is that from which and in which those arise as temporary occupations of

attention.

They disappear from attention as soon as attention moves on -- and so cannot be 

and are not, "I".

What "I" is, is "off the radar" for most people, even if they look for "I".

What most people consider, "self", 

is a conglomeration of memories --

memories of intentions,

remembered sensations and locations,

remembered dreams, imaginings, and unknowing.

That's it.

Somehow, the idea of "self",

comprised of those things,

is taken as complete.

There is an attribute of existence

that is universal

constant,

and intuitively familiar --

the sense of being, "here" -- wherever that is.

There is no discernable break, in it,

but if there were,

we would never know it

because a break, in it,

would be a break, in ourselves.

No memory would form

and so there would be no way for us to refer, to it,

except, perhaps, for fancy words like

paradox, or mystery.

So, it seems continuous, ever-present, and present everywhere.

For all intents and purposes, it is eternal,

meaning,

the central pivot point

common to all experiences --

but neither central,

nor anything around anything else pivots,

nor a point -- but present to and at every point.

Now, it is more present than our memories are --

more constantly present

more reliably present

and in fact,

inescapable.

Get that. Inescapable.

Inevitable,

for all time.

Now, what does that have to do with, "self"?

It would seem to be more "self" than "self" is!

Wouldn't it.

I think they're going to have to re-write the entire English language

to make the use of a certain pronoun,

a certain pronoun which is neither a common noun nor a proper noun,

but the #1 pronoun,

reflective of reality.

What do you make, of that?

Why, to 'Conservatives', 'Progressives' are The Enemy

I think I know why political "conservatives" consider political "progressives", the Enemy: envy and shame.

Progressives actually work to get things done that benefit large groups of people.

Conservatives work to get things done that benefit small groups of people, "special interests" -- and what they conserve is their own value system and agenda.

Conservatives see what Progressives are up to and feel ashamed that they, themselves, get so little done and deserve so little appreciation. They just don't have it in them to envision and implement programs of large-scale benefit. It is easier to destroy than to create -- and that's what they do.

So, they feel ashamed. They feel it easier to bring Progressives down than to raise themselves up (and do some good) -- and that's what they do, with lies, distortions, omissions, and negative generalizations -- and with manipulating voting. That's the behavior of envy. They attempt to substitute the lift of "winning" for the lift of having brought about benefit (as in, "It is better to give than to receive.")

How Hamstrings and Hip Joint Flexors Get Tight | another way

This entry explains why the hamstrings and hip joint flexors get tight, why they don't respond to stretching, and what it takes to free them.

It's a jammed, turned sacrum, commonly known as "sacroiliac joint dysfunction" (or "SIJD"), and also as a sacroiliac joint strain or sprain, sacroileitis, and as a dislocated or displaced sacrum.

How a Jammed, Turned Sacrum Affects Walking, Hamstrings and Hip Joint Flexors

Ordinarily, each step forward in walking starts with a forward movement of the hip on that side, followed by the knee and foot. The flow of walking feels like a continuous connection through your whole leg through your hip, right up into your spine to about half-way up. Movement is a smooth, continuous flow with a whiplike motion from hip through the foot.

Why the Hip Joint Flexors Get Tight

With a jammed, turned sacrum, the flow of leg movement through the hip joint, in walking, stops short of going through the pelvis. That's to protect against the pain of moving a jammed S-I joint.

The broken flow of movement shows up as the person taking each step by bringing the thigh and knee forward first, rather than the hip; that movement uses the hip joint flexors -- the psoas (or iliopsoas) muscles and hamstrings.

You can neither stand up comfortably nor take a full, normal stride, so a fold appears at the hip joint.

The whole pelvis and leg exist in a state of cringing from the pain -- hip joint flexors and hamstrings, both.

How S-I Joint Pain Changes the Walking Pattern

The hamstrings tighten to stabilize and protect the painful pelvis.

This is not something someone decides. It's an automatic action triggered by the sensation of walking in that jammed a pattern, in part, to avoid the weird, uncomfortable sensation of moving with a strained, painful S-I joint. So, the person walks weirdly.

The person gets used to lugging the laggard leg forward, with the psoas and gluteus minimus muscles -- holding tight in a state of readiness to overcome tight hamstrings. Oddly enough, people consider that weird, altered movement pattern to be normal, if they notice it, at all.

Attempts to free tight hip joint flexors and hamstrings that are tight because of a turned sacrum are fruitless as long as the sacrum is displaced.

What It Takes to Free the Hip Joint Flexors and Hamstrings

One must correct the shape of the pelvis so that strain comes off the S-I joints.

When that happens, the hip joint flexors and hamstrings automatically relax.

After that, it's a simple matter of a session or so of clinical somatic education (clean-up) or some somatic education exercises to restore a healthy walking pattern.

MORE: https://lawrencegoldsomatics.blogspot.com/2018/02/symptoms-of-sacroiliac-joint.html