Why Most People Have A Lower Right Shoulder (and how to fix it)

[@laralocatellofitness]

You explained in 11 minutes what 8 years of MULTIPLE therapists never understood (or were willing to share). Amazing work. Cannot thank you enough.

[@JALAJ74]

This is so darn true! Been struggling with this since I started lifting. Sincerely, thank you!

[@markfrank7464]

My right shoulder is lower and hips are rotated just as you described and confirmed by an x-ray from the chiropractor. The chiro has been giving me temporary relief and it keeps coming back. I lift regularly and am in the top 1% of activity according to my samsung watch (lol). I have been having pretty severe pain in the right shoulder for quite some time with mid to lower back pain. These few stretches immediately relieved some of my shoulder pain. I am going to commit to your program and check back in about a month from now. Thanks for the info!!

[@casperjansen24]

Hows it going now?

[@skyazullopez6726]

I used to have my right side massaged and it's really painful when the masseur stretches the area. This exercise is very helpful. Thank you, Sir.

[@heitorborges3353]

I can't believe it. This is EXACTLY what i discovered by my own doing reaally slow active streches after 🍁. I have a deformed left chest cavity that merges with a pectus. Was disconfortable to breath with havier exercises. It feels like a miracla looking in the mirror and seeing it normal for the firt time in my life

[@ams5341]

How long did it take to correct??

[@heitorborges3353]

@@ams5341 3 years. But 1º i wasn't consistent, 2º it took me quite some time to figure things out. If I knew what I know today I could have fixed it in way less time. Anyway, I planned on doing surgery (even thought I didn't had the money) but in the end it wasn't necessary. It wasn't my bones that where deformed ("assymetrical"), but my mind muscle connection that due to years of bad posture led to an atrofy of some muscles. This atrofy then made the problem cyclical: bad posture -> "assymetrical" mind muscle connection -> compensation by other muscles -> deformity. The funny part is that it took years to figure it out because it wasn't obvious when I looked in the mirror because the compensation of posture by ther muscles part made it look like I wasn't THAT crooked. But man, I was. My hips bended to my right side (years of PC gaming sitting like this 🤡). This led to my left feet not being stable (my left foot not supporting my weight in a balanced way in relation to my right foot), which led to my left foot turning inwards (above the problem of not knowing how to use all of my feet toes due to tight shoes). To compensate this hip and feet displacement, i inconsiously tensioned my left shoulder forward, wich led to thigh left traps and an atrofy of my left shoulder rear delt and left chest lower muscles (creating the left torax deformity and aggravating the pectus that I mentioned). (With this I also realized that the reason my wrists where "small" was because I didn't activated the anelar and little finger of both hands during any exercise involving grip, which led to smaller tendons on this side of the wrists, not been able to fully extend this two fingers with a closed hand, AND a weaker rotation ability of my forearm, which reflected on my inability to use the rear delt and activate the left chest and upper back. Funny huh?). And finally, all of this deformity eas also compensated by a slight rotation of my head (chin) to the right, and my right check bone beeing higher than the left one (this is when I realized that even the muscles on my left face Where atrofied, kind of mimicking the same deformity of my chest. This is when I also realized that not only meawning (the tongue posture thing, principaly the hard meawning thing) works to fix breathing problems and face assymetry works, but that it is also connected with posture and exercise performance To wrap things up, what worked for me was focusing on stretching, deep breathing or "torax expansion", meawning, but more important than anything was overcoming and wielding isometrics. Nothing compares in terms of developing the mind muscle conection. I'm not joking, from your feet toes to the muscles of your head (yes, your jaw, even the smile muscles, and the muscles of the side and back of your skull), it's all connected and you can learn to do it

[@heitorborges3353]

@@ams5341 man, I wrote like 3 paragraphs explaining what I did but it was deleted as soon as i wrote

[@vger2]

This explains so much. The extra tightness in the muscles of my left back just pulled today when I was only doing reverse grip bicep curls with an EZ curl bar. I was like “WTF and how did that happen?!” The seams of my T-shirts also sit forward slightly on the front of my right delt, not straight across the top like the left. Weird.

[@tarverator]

Excellent content, and THANK YOU for not ruining it with superfluous distracting background music! #accessibility ❤

[@Teal_Seal]

Was sitting at the computer today with my right hand on my mouse. Boom 💥 THIS is the main cause for my lower rt shoulder. Just ordered a mouse platform for my chair arm so my arm can stay by my side. Will do the stretches too.

[@pabsmgm]

It’s be great if you had follow-alongs with all of this knowledge 🙏🏼

[@diyvrchannel3414]

Thank you ! :-)) I am after injury (3 months) and now thanks to that and your videos I am way more aware of my own body. Last days I notice I am not 100% straight , and this stopping me to get 100% healed state. With this video is like you are reading my mind :D Cheers ! I will use your tips about this starting from this day ^^ All the best ! have a nice one 🙂

[@carnigoth]

Is there a pattern name for lower left shoulder and lower left hip?

[@pietsattler6864]

I guess, would be Right AIC Left BC

[@carnigoth]

@@pietsattler6864 thank you

[@RandomPerson-yc4vm]

​@@carnigoth you can call it lateral tilt of the shoulder and hip

[@lisag18]

Get an MRI. There may be an issue with your skeleton, spine. Exercises can't fix something you're born with

[@Tynami22]

Came for the thumbnail, stayed for the great information 😂😂

[@giggiofaffo7231]

Thanks for sharing the knowledge

[@m.fb.7440]

Does it have to do with right and left-handedness? I'm left-handed. And my left shoulder is slightly lower.

[@Calypsooo]

Wow Amazing Video Brother 👑🙏

[@gregoryspindler324]

I like how Zink and Lawson called this a fascia bias in the body

[@DaucusKarota]

I don't want to unseen this. I am down forever!

[@fadypady]

Great video!

[@Vishnu-j9n]

My left shoulder higher than right shoulder. I consulted with doctors and took xray. 2 doctors told me that its scapular winging and one doctor told me its tighting.. Then i consulted with another doctor and took CT scan and he told me that scapular, muscle is fine in ct scan. He prescribed me muscle relaxant medicine.. I am confused what should i do..

[@amlivinginhell]

This is the same problem I'm facing. Each doctors say a different thing. Not sure what I have to do. Doctors don't care much if it is not much of revenue for them. Only this KZbin channel seem to exactly describe my problems.

[@jatt.com12]

Sams problems I have and I have now done 2 stirioid injection laft shoulder and one right Shoulder for pain relife

[@jatt.com12]

I have done mri and it's showing inside sweeling and some time my neck side muscles area too tight and so much pain 😢

[@maxsheng8215]

Do these exercises first. If they dont work, then take the medication. You dont wanna do medication first then find out they dont work.

[@Salim-zn6xi]

just fix it bro try to strengthen your scapula do scapula and shoulder stretches and yeah it'll get better slowly

[@beboysub]

Thank You kind Sir

[@AygisMusic]

Doing everything you said for the 2nd exercise and don’t feel or see my back expand or stretch. Don’t know what the issue is.

[@johnedel4312]

Same, I don't feel my back left rib cage expand

[@Stoffendous]

Youre my Harris Conor!

[@KhalidKhan-xj1sf]

Great Work ❤ Dear❤❤❤❤❤

[@MissAnushaa]

Hi, thanks for the video. What if one shoulder is more forward and that then causes all spi e to be in inbalance and results in lower back pain ?

[@viikramm36555]

I'm also suffering from the same problem, it's called lateral pelvic tilt.

[@gouravsingh8976]

​@@viikramm36555where you able to cure it ?? Or any progress??

[@cozytherapy7771]

Can you please tell me what type of a therapist you are? I'm looking for the right one to address chronic muscle tightness after a trauma

[@gamerk1625]

PRI

[@jakkritphanomchit]

Hi Connor could you please briefly explain why the book is on left side? Are you trying to engage the serratus anterior? I'm confused to the extent I could imagine the book should go right hand side in a leftward rotated torso, to balance congestion in left upper back. 🤔

[@mmmgggtttmm]

im curious as well

[@rvantong]

Hi Conor, I'm currently doing Beginner's Body Restoration, and now I'm wondering whether the exercises I'm doing fit my posture pattern, or whether I'm better off doing different exercises as mentioned in the article. Especially now, since I'm on week 5, there are a few exercises I'm supposed to do only on one side. Are these meant to fix the left AIC pattern? Watching this video, I felt like I didn't quite match the pattern. I went on to find your article "What To Do If You Don't Fit The Left AIC Pattern", in which you explain what to do when you're in this situation. I seem to have an oblique orientation with my pelvis somewhat twisted towards the right, my left hip more forward. At the same time, my left shoulder is more toward the back and my sternum more rotated towards the left. My straight leg raise is noticeably better on the left than the right.

[@VittorioRanieri]

Same issue as you. Let's hope he replies :)

[@tilloureda9922]

You should watch His Video,the best Ressource on the Internet to fix a twisted pelvis. I think He explains how to Adresse it there

[@ddori5611]

Thank you always for the best contents out there. I was getting curious how left aic & right bc pattern will affect the neck and head. I have the left aic & right bc pattern and my right shoulder have limits when shrugging, i never felt the right lower traps working. But when i turn my head over to the right side a little bit i feel the traps working a little bit.

[@Rovey]

I have a natural low right shoulder over 10 years of it and it started hurting my left sternum area. Now i am desperate for relief. Hope this helps

[@eliu9939]

did it work

[@Abhi_signingoff]

I am facing the same problem

[@turtle12369]

I thought I was uniquely “uneven” with my higher left shoulder, but I guess I am a pretty typical specimen 😂. I came across this video because I was searching for ways to fix my right shoulder, which doesn’t seem to have full range of motion in the shoulder pinwheel where right hand comes up behind my back. The left hand comes up way higher and is able to connect with the right. Any tips on how to even out my pinwheel?

[@aniketbiswas4401]

Please come to india 😢 their are many people who needs help

[@greeneyes1975ful]

Would this cause clavicle, and SC joint pain as well?

[@xevilrabbit12]

excellent analysis 4

[@reformerka]

😮😮😮 always thought I’m broken with my humerus internally rotated

[@bradsworld565]

I have a high right shoulder. I'm also left-handed.

[@luksdk]

One thing I didn't fully understand. With a lower right shoulder, the book should be under my right hand? Or left?

[@Sandymankiller]

He confused both sides all the time

[@gangeshsaini4572]

Hey conor i have one doubt i have left winging scapula and left rounded shoulder, what do i do first ? should i first fix the rounded shoulder then winging scapula or should i first fix the wing scapula then rounded shoulder please reply Its been over 2 year i have been dealing with this your channel is life changing i had tried everything ortho pt but nothing came to help and found out your channel and its been really helpful to me thank you

[@ididntaskverified3663]

Dead hangs for 10 minutes

[@yussefcheaitou]

good video, genius

[@ankurlolayekar7734]

My left shoulder is higher. Myeft shoulder collar bone is pointing in upward direction, means it is not at an angle of 90° to the spine. My right collar bone is perfectly fine. What's the solution? Kindly suggest.

[@cem3096]

My right shoulder is turned downwards but not inwards, it is turned outwards. How will it be for me?

[@gshufelt09]

Would high left shoulder potentially lead to left shoulder/high-bicep pain

[@rellikvija]

what i don't understand on the first stretch you're opening right side, then on the second one with the book you're opening the left side?

[@jersonhernandez4579]

Can I do push ups while correcting my shoulder?

[@josiahhill8106]

What kind of doctor do I talk to this about

[@staceypollack808]

My left shoulder is higher yes but my right shoulder isn’t going forward it’s going backwards what does that mean ?

[@antonioskoric9157]

Hi Connor, in your practice have you ever encountered clavicle subluxation in sc joint. With your different approach I think you might have an answer.

[@maryc6091]

Conor I have the opposite. My left should is down. What do I do? Tia 😀

[@BobbieTheFish]

Try watching his video from a year ago "how to fix uneven shoulders for good" The second half is about the left side, so that might help

[@MohammadArman-p7c]

is regular exercise will interrupt in this exercise?

[@michaelmalik9859]

5:14 how long are you supposed to remain in this position and how many reps?

[@3abbosi]

For me it's the opposite... my left shoulder is visibly slumping lower that my chiropractor noticed it right a way once I walked in.

[@EvilHulk]

Does labrum tear have any effect on this? I was diagnosed with a labrum tear and my shoulder has dropped a bit and seems to be rotated. I can't even flex my traps on my left side.

[@paska68]

For how long should I stretch and how many reps should I do and how many times per week?

[@joelsabi3038]

Thanks as always, just bought ur beginner restoration programm. How do you find the idea to create like a 10-15 kinda general stretching routine which makes sense to you. There are loads of such on Ytb but I learned that after diving deep into exercises most of the times they aren't optimal or good instructed. Would just love to see smth from someone with your level of understanding

[@jianipierre5040]

People with his level of understanding are all knowledge in PRI (Postural Restoration Institution). So just look that up and you can find other specialists and videos that cover similar topics.

[@WonderfulSoccer111]

Hey brother my shoulder posture is too bad can u help me as well

[@thund3rzzz813]

I have the exact shoulder limitations you describe along with the Right side tightness. However, some how my Right shoulder becomes higher then my left, and my Pelvis seems more oriented to the Left. I feel like I'm getting another layer of compensations with UpTrap / Lev scap/ rhomboid tightness on top of the initial Left AISC/Right BC, and then with the pelvis although the belly button faces straight the hip bone on right is forward/Left is back, And teh Abs are really stretched out on the left side vs Right side abs are really tight measured by distance of belly button to the hip bone... I guess my question do some people get another a layer of compensations on top of the initial stuff and then does this mean I need to do a different set of excercises first to undo the other layer before going into the excercises in teh video for them to be successful , Thanks.

[@joshuaatkins2334]

You have described exactly my pain, I would love an answer to this question too. Stand by for much more detailed comment ...

[@oldboyone1]

this is exactly my problem as well yet not many address this

[@LocalhostTutorials]

@@oldboyone1 would love to see an update on this

[@joshuaatkins2334]

Ok, so I was looking through his videos to remind myself how to best describe my issues, as compares to left IAC pattern. I found his video titled, What To Do If You Don't Fit The Left AIC Pattern - How To Fix Asymmetrical Posture. This has just left me more confused, because I seem to be between the hip hike compensation and the full left shift compensation. Mainly because my hips do seem to significantly face left, and my entire right hip seems, when standing to be in front of my left hip, not just rotated. When seated it seems fairly clearly to be tipped more forward with the hips facing left. However everything not surrounding the hips is more like left IAC pattern; although my right shoulder compensates with a tight upper trap, and is sometimes higher than left, if I relax it so my traps are the same, it's like my shoulder is falling back, or like I'm in the process of putting a backpack over my right shoulder. In the video he mentions that when the compensation in this confusing it is best to use the tests, to figure out where you are, but I struggle with this, because, for me every move seems to progress evenly and I have a hard time telling what end of range of motion is. The only time I can objectively see the tension, is when I do the arm motions like the chinese cat toy it shows left AIC pattern. I think I need to either learn better how to do the tests or I'm actually thinking about taking these videos to my chiropractor and asking him to tell me what's up and what exercises from these videos will help me. He can at least tell me the "test results" because I have a hard time testing myself. I could use an adjustment anyway although it has not yet helped for long with theses movement and functional issues. DLDR: I am still confused, but his video titled; What To Do If You Don't Fit The Left AIC Pattern - How To Fix Asymmetrical Posture seems like it may help.

[@tommihaapanen846]

Yes, you can get compensations on top of LAIC. What I've gathered from watching a lot of Conor and Neal Hallinan, there is always LAIC on the bottom, then PECS might layer on top of that, TMCC might layer on top of both, and then you can have a ton of stuff on top of those. If you have a lot of compensations, it is probably the best to seek professional help from a certified PRI coach. I similarily have a higher right shoulder. I did the self tests a while a go and got positive on LAIC but weird results on Right BC, probably due to the right shoulder being higher. I've been doing PRI techniques by mostly myself and while it has helped some, it still is very confusing, hard and quite discouraging to do it on your own, at least if you have a lot of layers of compensations, which I think I have.

[@emmaharris7965]

You broke your skeleton! I see the tape on his lowest right rib, haha

[@LoverOfTrees]

Yes good stuff

[@lucaday7957]

can this be used in reverse? aka my right shoulder is higher than my left

[@sethsends]

damn, i feel like im learning some dark arts here

[@Aleks93k]

Conor, in some videos (about left aic right bc pattern) you talk about thoracic spine that compensatory (to pelvis that rotated to the right) rotated to the left with right shoulder forward. Here you said that thoracic rotated to the right. Where is the truth?

[@huardjonathandale3488]

Both are true. We have the first thoracic spine compensation that goes toward the right with the pelvis. then in order not to be walking with the tronc turned to the right we have kind of a double compensation to turns us to the left. Its a fake rotation to the left.

[@RAE-homely-fairy-of-the-light]

My right shoulder is higher and more forward than the left🤔and its sore?

[@heyalenofficial]

I have a left shoulder lower...

[@alexkatsanos8475]

Do people who are left handed lean more left?

[@turtle12369]

I was wondering the same.

[@SID1111]

Perfect

[@ikahtube2865]

hi sir but ny left shoukder is lower than the right shoulder could it be same reason pls i need answer

[@shehwajbaig7917]

very complicated.. did not even understand which shoulder we have to put the book under.. down one or up one

[@ichigo5929]

My right shoulder is higher and more foward then my left

[@halieelee1909]

Same and i hate it

[@ichigo5929]

@@halieelee1909 did you find a way to address this?

[@JD-mm7ur]

maaan. good info but I swear... internal and external, anterior posterior! can you just say back and front, forward, backward sometimes.

[@lurpjewul]

Awesome

[@joebazooks]

so this is why my right shoulder looks ever so slightly more rotated inwards than my left shoulder

[@juliecramer7768]

What is externally rotated

[@Peterogen]

❤❤❤❤

[@jonathansenkow3955]

Back mice😫

[@maxxsstrengthandpowerlifti188]

My body points to the right like 20 degrees lol

[@lamrof]

You don't see this everyday. It is a rear but insidious issue

[@xevilrabbit12]

wow

[@steveleamont]

Never once have a seen a weight lifter who looked like that before picture! I get its just a thumb nail but it’s a bit silly. Lol

[@BobbieTheFish]

Squat University has a short called "He Had Uneven Shoulders!" That features someone who looks strikingly similar to the before.

[@shihweiwong]

Hmmm

[@certovababicka]

My right shoulder is higher..🤔🤔 but OK...

[@cooroo9130]

Please think….. then just do the stretches with the other side

[@ichigo5929]

Same My right shoulder is higher and more forward than my left

[@tarp11z]

I'll bet most of them were soldiers who dug their right heel in for months at a time and it knocked out their body from the pelvis.

[@user-bc3qr9os6z]

My right shoulder is higher

[@ignas_x]

Mine too, has this worked for you?

[@assmonkey2759]

How long do we do it? How many times a week? How long before we feel or see some results?