Do we have one leg shorter than the other?
First of all, don't get me wrong about what's coming next! Heels are essential in cases of real differences in the length of the lower limbs, noted in particular during certain fractures or for diseases such as polio.
On the other hand, to correct back pain of rheumatological origin for example, the wearing of heels is not based on any scientific postulate. So why maintain patients in constant imbalance when the study of anatomy clearly teaches us the existence of a natural balance in our pelvis? Is it not playing with fire to wear heel-pieces systematically when we know that their unjustified use causes overcompensation by resonance in other areas of the body which, in turn, may have side effects?
My objective with this book is to demonstrate that it is the sacroiliac joints that are at the origin of most pelvic disorders. In fact, measuring a limb from the iliac crest is an error all the more serious because when this lower limb (the leg) is located on the side of the highest iliac crest, it is then considered, often wrongly, as the longest. The direct consequence of this error is that the heel is applied... on the wrong side!
Indeed, the rotation of the iliac bone can distort everything. Moreover, by pushing the absurdity a little further, the observation of the "tilt / twist" of the pelvis being identical in the standing position as in the sitting position, it would be logical to tell patients with a heel-piece to complete their kit with the installation of an "ischionette" in sitting position?
And so I invited many of my patients with pelvic imbalances to get rid of their heels. The results, not surprisingly, were telling as they found their balance again.