“Uneven waistline?”
On one side of my waist, it follows my natural shape to my hip bone from my rib cage on the other side my waist follows but not necessarily evenly looking like my other side. Now I’m pretty sure I do not have scoliosis my spine is straight and shoulders are even and I have no back issues, but when I was doing research on it, scoliosis came up. I also read somewhere that it could be a pelvic tilt or some kind of muscle imbalance but my hips bones are pretty even and I do not know about the muscles. It really bothers me and I have some confusion. I don’t know if its muscle, fat, or bone structure imbalance, so please let me know if you know what this is, and thank you in advance.
Female | 18 years old
Complaint duration: 4 months
Medications: None
Conditions: None
5 Answers
There is definitely a hip imbalance, most likely due to a short leg and or pronated feet. The can be corrected with custom orthotics and or a heel lift. Chiropractic adjustments would also help
From your picture, there is a slight difference in the gap between your arm and torso. It is quite possible you may have a minor scoliotic curve. There are two main types of scoliosis a functional curve that can be the result of strained muscles or developing you musculature more on one side than the other. The other type of curve is structural which means that your vertebra bodies developed in such a way that one side of the body of the vertebra has a greater height than the other side causing the spine to curve away. First things first, get examined by a chiropractor and see if an adjustment gets the gap between arm and torso equal and then do stretches to maintain your alignment. If you are an athlete train with good technique both sides of your body to reduce compensations that can cause a functional curve. It is true that if your lower back is more tense on one side, that can lift the pelvis on that side causing a functional curve.
Tortipelvis. Please see a good chiropractor.
Always check the spine for scoliosis. It could also be caused by a shorter lower limb. Evaluate both & send to Orthopedist. Also kidneys must be checked as well.
Could be all the things you mentioned. If you want to rule out scoliosis, get an x-ray which will give you definitive proof either way. Check with a chiropractor. I work with this all day long. QL, aka hip hiker muscle or hip flexor muscle, can be imbalanced and shifting your posture. If that's the case get a trainer. I recommend rehab fix they do online and he is very good. It's going to be either one of those or both.
