Treatment Philosophy
Groover Clinic is dedicated to helping improve your cycling performance, preventing and helping you recover quickly and completely from your cycling injuries.
Correcting your physiological short leg optimizes your cycling performance by improving your joint mechanics, nerve function, muscle strength, muscle symmetry, and balancing your posture.
Physiological short leg is frequently mistaken for anatomical short leg.
How Do You Identify Your Physiological Short Leg?
Physiological short leg may be identified when comparing the evenness of your ankles both while you are lying supine (on your back) and prone (on your tummy), and through measurements of postural symmetry. Unless you have had a rare bone deforming illness or developmental problem, when you see your legs are uneven, or your posture is distorted, you have physiological short leg.
Until Now, What Have Cyclists Done About Leg Length Inequality?
Cycling physiologists and bike fitters use shims to try and minimize short leg’s negative effects upon cycling performance. By shimming your short leg, these experts are attempting to fit your bike to your uneven leg lengths. If you are one of the few people in the world with anatomical (actual) short leg from Perth's Disease, Polio, fracture, or bone developmental abnormalities, shimming your short leg will be helpful. However, if you have a physiological (functional) short leg, these equipment modifications do not address underlying causes of your physiological short leg. Shimming your physiological short leg does not address the abnormal mechanical, neurological, and muscular causes for your physiological short leg which interfere with your cycling experience.
Physiological Short Leg Length Correction eliminates the need for equipment modifications by improving the symmetry of your body. This corrective procedure is accomplished through specialized technologies unknown to most healthcare practitioners, physiologists, bike fitters and athletes.
How Could You Correct Your Physiological Short Leg?
Correcting physiological short leg is a highly specialized healthcare process involving a thorough case history, examination, specialized biomechanical X-ray procedures and analysis, diagnosis, prognosis and care planning. Physiological short leg corrective procedures are both scientific and creative, and must remove all causes of your physiologically short leg. These causes include: abnormal joint biomechanics (joint alignments and the abnormal forces acting upon your joints), neurological asymmetries (elevated or diminished nerve stimulation to your muscles), muscular imbalances (long and short muscles) and postural distortions (tilting, shifting and twisting of your body framework). Correction of your physiologically short leg must be verified by physical examinations and through specific biomechanical X-rays and X-ray analysis.
Follow-up and reevaluation are necessary to stabilize your corrected leg lengths. After you have had your leg lengths corrected, a care plan of appropriately designed follow-up is required to stabilize your leg length equality. After completion of your planned follow-up, the factors responsible for your original physiologically short leg be reevaluated to assess the quality and stability of your leg length correction. Based upon the outcome of your reevaluation, plans are then made for the long term maintenance care required for preserving your leg length equality.
Your initial follow-up appointments may only require simple checkups including quick consultations and limited corrective procedures. More extensive follow-up appointments may include combined joint corrective procedures, manual therapy, corrective exercise, gait training, neuromuscular acupuncture, and nutrition and lifestyle counseling. If your leg lengths remain equal and stable, maintenance checkups are usually brief and quarterly. Additional visits are required if you get injured and require additional care.
Your Advanced Cycling Performance, Pain Elimination, Injury Recovery, and Injury Prevention Options
Accelerate and expand your cycling performance, pain elimination, injury recovery, and injury prevention with three advanced Groover Clinic programs. Groover Clinic's Holistic Neuro-Musculo-Skeletal Performance and Wellness, Holistic Sports Injury, and Metabolic Performance and Wellness Programs complement your physiological short leg correction, improve your body function, and give you the holistic health and wellness needed for your best performance. Participating in these programs is extremely beneficial for everyone, and especially the serious or competitive rider.
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Now that you understand how we work, click on “Treatment Program" for more details about Groover Clinic's diagnostic and treatment procedures for cyclists.
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