Fighter with the weirdest body

I don’t know if ray longo was a fighter but from a face pic you couldn’t tell he is obese.
 
wufabufa said:
There's a degree of pectus cavus he has too which causes some of his kyphosis. Chiro ain't gonna do shit to fix that since it's a structural imbalance opposed to a functional one.
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That’s exactly what chiro does though. He can easily help those rounded shoulders and help to bring them and The head into a more neutral position.
 
StoneColdSteveAustin said:
That’s exactly what chiro does though. He can easily help those rounded shoulders and help to bring them and The head into a more neutral position.
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To a degree it might but that's why I differentiated between structural and functional abnormalities. It looks more like mild pectus excavatum. Chiro and even physical therapy aren't going to change the shape of his ribs and sternum. That's pretty much what his body is going to look like regardless of the amount of therapeutic exercise, stretching, or adjustments he'd receive in treatment. His chest doesn't look like that because of kyphosis/forward head/rounded shoulders. His postural problem is caused by his sternum and ribs being sunken in.....not much you can do about that beyond surgery. Just like with scoliosis, it can be structural caused by misshapen bones or functional caused by tight/lax musculature. Depending on the degree of the curve you can manage it conservatively, but with more aggressive structural cases need constant bracing or surgery to correct.

I've had plenty of patients that have George's type of posture in my 10 years of practice. Some get better, some don't. The ones that do show improvements don't have structural issues in their skeleton.
 
Man I totally pissed myself at those shooped photos!
The range of humour in the responses here is incredible!
You guys posting the pics of disabled fighters... wow that shit is dark! I’m not criticising you though, no censorship in humour!!
 
wufabufa said:
To a degree it might but that's why I differentiated between structural and functional abnormalities. It looks more like mild pectus excavatum. Chiro and even physical therapy aren't going to change the shape of his ribs and sternum. That's pretty much what his body is going to look like regardless of the amount of therapeutic exercise, stretching, or adjustments he'd receive in treatment. His chest doesn't look like that because of kyphosis/forward head/rounded shoulders. His postural problem is caused by his sternum and ribs being sunken in.....not much you can do about that beyond surgery. Just like with scoliosis, it can be structural caused by misshapen bones or functional caused by tight/lax musculature. Depending on the degree of the curve you can manage it conservatively, but with more aggressive structural cases need constant bracing or surgery to correct.

I've had plenty of patients that have George's type of posture in my 10 years of practice. Some get better, some don't. The ones that do show improvements don't have structural issues in their skeleton.
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his ribs are most likely that way because he has the rounded shoulders and might have slight scoliosis. A chiro can level all of that out over time.


When I was young had a slight curvature that was fixed. I still go now once in awhile to have an adjustment done to keep me on the right track. A good chiro can do a lot of good. I know people don’t like them but I played sports growing up and every athlete I knew goes to one
 
StoneColdSteveAustin said:
his ribs are most likely that way because he has the rounded shoulders and might have slight scoliosis. A chiro can level all of that out over time.


When I was young had a slight curvature that was fixed. I still go now once in awhile to have an adjustment done to keep me on the right track. A good chiro can do a lot of good. I know people don’t like them but I played sports growing up and every athlete I knew goes to one
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Some chiros are good, others are snake oil salesmen. One of my adjunct professors in PT school had his MPT and DC so he was able to clue us in on which interventions were legit and the ones that were trash/boardline harmful. I also take issue with them since some years ago the ACA tried to sue the APTA for the right use the words, "physical therapy" under their treatments which would have effectively gutted our industry and possibly put 200k therapists out of a job.
 
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