Foot pain and pelvic pain -- Leg length? Walking weird?

Hello,

I have left foot pain and as a result my entire right side of my body has tightened up to compensate leaving my right leg shorter than my left leg. Also my left leg is weaker than my right leg because of the pain.

How should I go about my recovery? Will the legs even themselves out, and pelvic tilt, etc if I do just TMS work? I was doing Hannah Somatics and that provides temporary relief and it evens things out, but it doesn't stick it goes back to this way and the pain of the foot stays. So it wasn't a 100% solution for me.

Thanks!

 

Let it go. Let go of this idea your legs are uneven, or any other symptom you think you feel. When we are anxious, angry, stressed, afraid, hiding from our emotions etc our body tightens .. and so does the mind. It becomes rigid and stuck. You are stuck feeling only the physical.
TMS work helps explore all the things in our inner landscape that creates the inner stress and anxiety. Eventually it becomes less scary, the nervous system begins to relax and muscles release their hold of tension. Our minds begin to soften, attitudes open and we can fully experience all facets of life.

Will your “leg length” change? That’s not the point. The point is that you won’t care because your hyper focus and obsession with the symptoms will be replaced by an interest and engagement in life.

The Structured Educational Program at tmswiki.org is a free self-guided program you follow day by day from start to finish. It begins with reading a book by Dr. Sarno who developed the idea of TMS. I suggest reading The Divided Mind as it presents a wide variety of symptoms people successfully recovered from.

 

I understand what you're saying , but my subconscious is having a hard time accepting it because it wants to "fix" and "be perfect." Basically I want to walk normally again (no leg length stuff etc) in the long term, so if you are saying I can get there with just TMS work I am fine with that. But also I have been introduced to Hannah Somatics which fixed it temporarily. The balance and coordination affects my confidence etc, so I want that resolved because I was a huge sports person before this I don't want to be limited. So do I do both or just one? TMS or somatics or qigong? I think that's where I am getting stuck.

 

My entry ticket into the world of Chiro, hip and later back pain was my mixed Length legs...that does NOT cause pain. One of my legs is like 1.25" longer than the other because of serious hip tilt...and I never had pain with it until TMS came...The proof being, I have done nothing to address it and I haven't been in pain for 25 years this year...and I forgot I ever had that diagnosis until I read this post.
I walk a little funny...people 'spoof me' about it...But I don't have pain because I read Dr John Sarno's books and ingested and lived the information.

Those are called 'placebos' and that's the nicest thing I can think of them...Human beings evolved over hundreds of thousands of years to dominate their environment and the world...we are not delicate gossamer that some minor 'deviation from the norm' is going to shut down...

Go and read John Sarno's "Healing Back pain"

 

Okay got it thanks so much. I actually never had any leg length discrepancy before the foot injury, so I wanted to make sure that I walk as if I never had the injury in the future. Right now there is pain so I don't expect to walk the same until the pain is resolved. But yes I see your point.

I was just hoping to hear from someone "I had a foot problem, I was walking weird, and now I fixed the foot pain by following John Sarno and I walk back to normal now."

 

"I was just hoping to hear from someone "I had a foot problem, I was walking weird, and now I fixed the foot pain by following John Sarno and I walk back to normal now."

Of course you did! That's TMS. You don't want to acknowledge WHY you have pain and what it's function is in your life right now. It is getting your attention to tell you that something much deeper is going on. Dr. Sarno suggests it is an unfelt RAGE - which begins a myriad of mental and most often physical symptoms but they don't exist one without the other.

Our western world model is that we should get a magic and instantaneous cure without actually having to do anything. However, you do have to do "the work" to feel the effects. That includes, eventually recognizing that you CAN walk normally through the pain, that, if your foot has been checked out and there is no structural issues found (and like me, even if you are diagnosed with structural issues) you can walk absolutely normally if you train your brain to return to it's previous gait. FIRST you need to do the emotional and mind work of loosing fear, and finding hope in the fact that you can do this.
It generally takes time.
One of the myriad of diagnoses I've had over the years is tarsal tunnel syndrome and what is essentially fallen arches. It created a great deal of pain BECAUSE I was super tense and walking with this tension and anxiety, unwittingly holding my breath, and doing all sorts of things that effect posture and gait. However NONE of it was structural, I created the physical torsion from mental tension. Because it happened over a lifetime (and I am not young) it is taking it's sweet time to work itself out. However, I have radically reduced my mental tension and stress, and do all kinds of things and usually have no pain in my feet even though they look exactly the same as they did when they hurt like heck. At time the pain returns, usually for short periods of but goes quickly as I deal with the mental issues surrounding it.

 

I didn't notice my leg length discrepancy until an orthopedic doctor pointed it out, then my body was convinced that the discrepancy was causing my hip/pelvic/back pain. She prescribed a shoe lift. I wore it for like 2 weeks before I discovered Sarno/TMS then chucked them in the trash. It's psychological.