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CPS Self Test #2 – Lower Crossed Syndrome

Let me know how you did by leaving a comment below!

Comments

  1. Susan says:
    January 31, 2017 at 2:59 pm

    This position was fine for me – a mild stretch, not floppy, dangle was straight down – but I still think I have lower crossed posture syndrome. Maybe I should quit complaining. Clearly it can be much worse!

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  2. Jim says:
    February 27, 2017 at 9:50 pm

    Not bad at all for me , very light stretch with straight down dangle. What I have notice working the program is that my hips are weak and my compression of my core doesn’t seam to work right but getting better also my left foot has not felt like it has a foundation for a long time. Is this what you call dead foot ? I am working the short exercises to correct it..

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  3. Blenda D Dupree says:
    April 3, 2017 at 1:00 pm

    My dangle was not at 90 degrees. To put it at 90 degree angle caused a very sharp pain.

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  4. Debbie says:
    April 5, 2017 at 3:36 pm

    My leg dangled at about 120 degree angle. I have 3 degenerated discs in lumbar starting at L5S1 to L3.

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  5. Natalie Falk says:
    June 3, 2017 at 8:47 am

    My leg did not dangle at 90 degree angle. And it was quite challenging to keep back flat to table without rotating spine.

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  6. Marsha says:
    June 7, 2017 at 5:05 am

    Thank you for these test, they have been helpful to me. I am fortunately able to do both test one and two since I do teach Tai Chi, Qi Gong and Somatics. This is not to say I don’t need other types of cross training, I do. I think we all have problem area to work on. I recently found out I have one leg longer than the other more than the normal small amount. This has caused problems in the tendons of the feet. Who would have thought.
    I am working on this at the moment.
    Thanks for all your work.

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  7. Anonymous says:
    June 20, 2017 at 4:02 am

    Omg I didn’t realise how much of a gap to the floor I had I have a lot of work to do

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  8. Aileen says:
    June 30, 2017 at 7:33 am

    My right knee remains above my hip level. Feels like there is a physical block but not painful. My leg will just not lower

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  9. Colleen Carver says:
    August 13, 2017 at 6:28 pm

    Fine on right side and left…. but left side causes pain due to declining arthritis in left hip

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  10. Ruth Kerr says:
    August 15, 2017 at 8:30 am

    No problems.

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  11. Sharon says:
    September 18, 2017 at 3:21 pm

    I’m tight both sides….guessing about two inches from resting on flat surface

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  12. Chris Bourland says:
    September 24, 2017 at 7:19 pm

    Couldn’t get my leg to dangle at the 90 degree angle. It was closer to 105 degrees and my thigh was slightly above.

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  13. Patrick says:
    October 18, 2017 at 3:09 am

    My left leg would only dangle to about 110 degrees from the hip. The lower part of my left leg was less than 50 degrees. My right leg was ok. I didn’t have pain so much in my left leg but my phosas was uncomfortable on the left side.

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  14. kathy lipp says:
    November 2, 2017 at 3:21 pm

    from knee to hip leg is tight

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  15. jane says:
    November 12, 2017 at 5:56 pm

    My thigh was elevated about an inch, my back arched. I am 79 years young until 2 years ago when I had a fall and Fx L2 plus a painful QL injury along with surgery for CPS. I have been a mess since though I still down hill ski and my posture has declined.

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  16. Chitra says:
    March 8, 2018 at 1:31 am

    Leg was not 90 degrees. I have some sort of injury in my right hip but yoga keeps it in check.

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  17. Rosa says:
    May 26, 2018 at 11:12 am

    Difficult to say. I don’t yet have good awareness of core to table, so it’s difficult to feel shifts. I probably stopped before I had to. (Add to that, the babyback position is uncomfortable). Anyway both knees were about 3 inches off table. The dangle would have been almost 90 degrees if the upper leg were lying flat..

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  18. Jane Vaughan says:
    June 22, 2018 at 5:37 pm

    Thigh dipped some, but dangle doesn’t dangle much at all.

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  19. Anonymous says:
    August 8, 2018 at 8:47 pm

    Was ok

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  20. Dorine Wrangell says:
    November 20, 2018 at 12:33 am

    A bit tight but feeling much better since doing the exercise. My challenge is trying to cross my legs over each other. It causes extreme pain in the groin and hip. I’d like some exercises to help that.

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  21. Queenie says:
    April 6, 2019 at 4:11 am

    Need to find a sturdy table before I can do this test!

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  22. Wendy says:
    May 27, 2019 at 5:56 am

    Well, my leg was pretty well straight out, but the knee wasn’t fully bent. I was quite surprised I did that well. I am 80 and I have a lot of pain, no real diagnosis. Overall I am very fit but the pain is a problem.

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  23. Daryl Lynn says:
    September 19, 2019 at 2:56 am

    Surprisingly my legs appeared to be in the correct position and the knee at almost 90 degree angle. I was expecting the opposite result as my legs/knees will not touch the floor when I’m in a sitting position, very painful.

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