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When the geometry of the body is disrupted, the location of organs changes, leading to imbalance. A holistic view of a person allows for the identification of these deviations and an assessment of their importance to health.

Deformations of body shape are a branch of medicine that is not considered by a number of medical specialties: neurology, orthopedics, therapy, surgery, rheumatology, pulmonology, arthrology, manual therapy, sports, and preventive medicine. Doctors in these fields focus on posture, body proportions, movement patterns, and ranges of motion. It is believed that anatomical form can only be restored surgically.

This is why reconstructive surgery is so developed. It addresses local anatomical and topographical problems. A dropped kidney is stitched up. Shortened muscles are lengthened, displaced joint surfaces are reshaped. Dropped pelvic organs are pulled up and stitched. Pelvic tilt in the hip joint is corrected by replacing it with an artificial joint. Scoliosis is corrected with metal structures. "Narrow specialists" evaluate statics and kinetics from their own perspective: geneticists—from the standpoint of heredity, neurologists and orthopedists—from the standpoint of neurological and orthopedic symptoms. They address manifestations without solving the root problem.

Example. A proctologist treats the rectum, a gynecologist treats fibroids, a urologist treats cystitis, a neurologist treats back pain. A surgeon operates on the lumbar spine and sets traps for blood clots. The cause may be pelvic tilt and anterior pelvic tilt on the hip joint, resulting in a muscle-joint imbalance that is clearly revealed during biomechanical tests. However, it is not detected radiologically because the whole picture needs to be examined.

More applied disciplines for studying body deformations include rheumatology, pulmonology, arthrology, manual therapy, sports, and preventive medicine. Doctors in these fields focus on posture, body proportions, movement patterns, and ranges of motion. They evaluate statics and kinetics from their own perspective: geneticists—from the standpoint of heredity, neurologists and orthopedists—from the standpoint of neurological and orthopedic symptoms. Some try to understand biomechanical patterns. The opinions of scientists standing on a theoretical, probabilistic-scholastic basis differ. "Understandable" phenomena are linked by authors into certain theories, while "incomprehensible" ones are discarded as artifacts, attributed to complexity and the unknowability of the object, and the "amazing forces of nature." Scoliosis of varying degrees, kyphosis, kyphoscoliosis, posture disorders, and "bizarre" patterns are either considered harmless personal characteristics or classified as clinical pathological syndromes. They are observed or treated through compensation and minimizing loads. If necessary, a surgeon intervenes in the treatment process. The thesis that "the crooked and hunchbacked will be corrected by the grave," that it is fate, remains unchallenged. The word "treat" is an imperfect verb, perceived as a process without boundaries, predictions, or results.

Posture disorders, body shape deformations, disproportions of its elements, and bilateral symmetry in the structure of modern European medicine are either classified as obvious pathology or as a range of some norm—abstract and conventional, as asymmetry begins at 1.5–2 cm.

Body shape and proportions are the cornerstone of physical health.

Symmetrical parts of the body should be in equal conditions. Conversely, asymmetry divides the body into mismatched parts:

• weak and strong,
• more developed and less developed,
• with better blood flow and worse,
• with better neurodynamics and worse.

If the primary cause is not asymmetry but injury or illness, it will still divide the body into two parts: healthy and sick. Asymmetry of this origin will not allow full recovery without rehabilitation measures, thus becoming the logical beginning of a chronic disease. If asymmetry is not seen as the root cause, the consequence is taken as the root cause:

• impaired drainage,
• stagnant processes,
• adhesions,
• impaired blood supply, lymph flow.

If this is not seen, then the root cause can be considered:

• degenerative-dystrophic processes,
• destruction or degeneration of cells.

If this is not seen, then the root cause can be considered disturbances in biochemical and metabolic processes. If this is ignored, only the symptoms of the disease remain:

• swelling,
• pain,
• redness,
• impaired function.

Example. A woman has body asymmetry; the right and left sides differ by 1.5–2 centimeters. A small difference, from an external perspective. If we look at the internal changes in the body, in the absence of compensation, we will see a drop of the right kidney by 1.5–2 centimeters. As a result, the symmetry of the right ureter is disrupted, and without proper tension, it "sags" above the bladder. Consequently, urine flow is impaired, leading to stagnation in the kidneys, which over time causes inflammation, crystallization, and stone formation. Antibiotic treatment will eliminate the symptoms but will not cure the root cause—the asymmetry. Without addressing the root cause, the asymmetry will again lead to inflammation. And so on in a circle.

If the consequence is treated, the chronic course of the disease is insurmountable. The diagnosis will remain for centuries, like passport data.

"Suppressing" inflammation, lowering blood pressure, temperature, painkillers, persistently expanding narrowed, compressed blood vessels, fighting microbes can go on forever. Chronic patients or diseases are the merit of scientific and technological progress, which has destroyed or defeated the law of nature "the healthy, strong, and symmetrical survive." But if this had not happened, natural selection would have worked.

Asymmetry is most often primary, even if it is not noticeable externally or seems harmless, and is explainable by its origin:

• from parents,
• from incorrect posture,
• from sports, work, habits,
• from past injuries,
• from rapid growth,
• from excess or low weight,
• from poor climate, ecology, nutrition.

Secondary are clinical symptoms and syndromes if one focuses on them and treats them with the one-step logic of symptomatic treatment. Secondary are circulatory disorders, high or low blood pressure, and impaired secretion outflow.

Secondary, and more often tertiary, are tissue pathological changes toward proliferation, degeneration, or destruction of cells.

Asymmetry is not just a state; it is a dynamic process that divides the body into a weak part and a pseudo-strong one. The law of asymmetry operates at the level of biomechanical stereotypes. Asymmetry, muscle imbalance—this means that antagonist muscles serving one joint are unequal in strength, length, and structure.

Extensors are pathologically stronger than flexors or vice versa. Muscles that turn the legs inward are more powerful than those that turn them outward. The left leg is stronger than the right and more confident in running, walking, and turning. There are many nuances, countless variations. The weak muscle group is less innervated and supplied with blood, faintly or not represented in consciousness. Representation in consciousness is a necessary condition for voluntary movement. Muscle underuse leads to hypodynamia, and accordingly, to reduced blood circulation and hypotrophy. The weak muscle group has all the disadvantages. The strong antagonist has everything the opposite, better than the weak group. The balance is disturbed. Antagonist muscles, instead of being equally elastic, strong, structurally and morphologically complete, equally innervated and trophically provided, are unequal in their needs and capabilities.

The strong muscle reacts faster; the weak one does not resist. There is tension, but no relaxation. The strong get more and better; the weak get what is left, just to be part of the indivisible whole.

External and internal factors act on muscle structures in the same way, but muscles and tissues react differently to the impact. Let's look at physical factors: heat, cold, physical exertion, viruses, infections, injuries, casts, corsets, bed rest. Intoxication will first affect the weak muscle group; the strong one will be less affected. After the flu, a cold, or bed rest, the strong group will recover first; the weak one will lag behind, as the illness hit it harder. Two whips that disrupt the balance ratio. Asymmetry is well illustrated by the example of a candle. Imagine that we have molded a candle from wax, like from clay, exactly repeating the figure and forms of the human body with its tilts, curvatures, and asymmetry.

Straight candles melt evenly, slowly, burn to the end, and quietly fade away. Crooked, asymmetrical candles drip, smoke, burn quickly, and leave behind unused, unrealized wax.

Symmetrical people differ from each other in size, age, and fitness: even and thin, even and powerful.

The main thing is that they are even.

Asymmetry is a tricky thing; it tends to worsen and increase from both action and inaction.

Example. Hip dysplasia and scoliosis are links in the same chain. Everyone who has children with scoliosis says: "We were diagnosed with dysplasia, hip subluxation." They were diagnosed, treated, removed, forgotten, thought everything was fine, and it outgrew. It outgrew into scoliosis—this is logical and natural. It is no surprise that the first degree will progress to the second, and the second to the third. The logic of asymmetries is impeccable; biomechanics is an exact science, built on laws and axioms. Theories and hypotheses here represent nothing more than reasoning.

The physiological curves of the spine do not correspond to the norm; they are too pronounced in hyperlordosis, smoothed in kyphosis, or shifted to the side in scoliosis. Scoliosis is a curvature of the spine to the left or right relative to its axis. Kyphosis is characterized by a curvature of the spine in the sagittal plane, directed backward with a convexity, colloquially called a hump or hunchback.

Example. It all depends on how pronounced the asymmetry is. In the animal world, an asymmetrical butterfly does not fly anywhere, an asymmetrical hare has long been eaten, and an asymmetrical wolf runs quietly, leaning to one side.

If asymmetry is visible to the naked eye in the face, spine, chest, or legs—it is a disease. If asymmetry is visible but can be hidden from others—it is an intermediate option between the norm and pathology, but closer to pathology.

What is important is that body asymmetry inevitably places symmetrical areas of the body in different conditions of innervation and blood supply. Asymmetrical organs placed at different levels, halves of the brain, lungs, kidneys, arms, legs, and ovaries work differently. One—worse, the other—badly.

Body tilts in planes will lead to displacements of internal organs, endocrine glands, and impaired drainage, inflow, and outflow through bile ducts, pancreatic ducts, and other channels, like a pipe that has been pressed from the outside. Analogy. A tilted Christmas tree, and all the ornaments have shifted with it. From here begin problems with impaired cerebral circulation and headaches, neurotic reactions, sinus congestion—sinusitis and frontal sinusitis, in the tonsils—frequent sore throats, in the lungs—chronic bronchitis. From here—dropped kidneys, stomach, intestinal loops. From here—a bent uterus and obstructed stagnant and inflamed fallopian tubes.

The more pronounced the asymmetry, the earlier pathologies manifest. Minor asymmetries will also make themselves known, but later. The individual configuration of deviations from the norm manifests as a unique picture of clinical symptoms and syndromes, which will then be classified by an experienced doctor into a diagnosis with clinical and laboratory confirmation of inflammation, entrapment, prolapse with impaired blood supply, innervation, and stagnation.

Respectfully, Anzhela Pripoten