This is about the duck walk. We have already discussed dead ass syndromewhen the gluteus medius muscle hurts. Today I will draw a test to test these muscles.
Usually, if a healthy person from a standing position tries to raise one leg, then his pelvis will remain horizontal. In a person with abnormal behavior of the gluteus medius muscle, the pelvis will descend to the healthy side when raising the healthy leg.
Better look at the picture. This is what a happy and healthy gluteus medius looks like. She can keep the pelvis horizontal.
But this is not always the case. Sometimes nerves that extend from the spine and command the gluteus medius are pinched somewhere in the lower back. Or a person has already had a hip operation. Something was broken there, and the gluteus medius muscle can no longer hold the pelvis as it used to. She drops it to the floor.
Or the simplest explanation. A person has pain in the hip joint due to osteoarthritis. Therefore, a person does not want to press his pelvis against the head of the femur. It hurts him. The person relaxes the muscle, and the pelvis puts less pressure on the diseased bone. This is how it will look:
I started this for the sake of illustrating the duck gait. It happens that both joints hurt, and the person falls alternately on both legs. Like a duck.
And also people do not understand from which side the problem is.
And I was always taught that such a gait occurs due to muscle weakness due to osteoarthritis. Like the muscles there are sick and flabby. But it seems that people are more likely to spare themselves and relax these muscles themselves. Because it hurts.
