Episode #237: The 2-Second Pelvic Alignment Fix That Changed Everything

In this episode of The Berman Method Podcast, Dr. Jake and Jenni Berman explain why physical inefficiency often comes before pain. Using a personal story from a trip to Key West, they show how a simple pelvic correction improved movement, reduced effort, and helped prevent future back pain by restoring proper muscle function.

The hosts discuss how pelvic alignment affects the way muscles work and why small imbalances can lead to inflammation, discomfort, and injury over time. They also emphasize the importance of being proactive by correcting movement issues before they become painful.

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Transcript

Insurance Bills And A Broken System

Speaker 0:12

Ready?

Speaker 1 0:13

Yeah, I can't see it.

Speaker 0:15

You can't ever see it, but I can see it. I think we're ready. It looks like we're right in the spot.

Speaker 1 0:24

Should I believe you?

Speaker 0:25

I think you should believe me.

Speaker 1 0:26

Oh yeah.

Speaker 0:27

And we're rolling, baby, with the Berman Method podcast focused on treating problems and not symptoms, or David going against Goliath, Goliath being the corporate medical system, big pharmaceutical companies, your health insurance companies. Oh my gosh. So I'm in here getting things set up for this recording, and Jenni just dropped Cella off at one of her camps, and she comes walking in the door yelling at someone.

Speaker 1 0:56

I was not yelling. I was my voice was calm. I was just talking very stern.

Speaker 1:01

You were projecting confidence that they were not speaking accurately.

Speaker 1 1:09

Correct.

Speaker 1:10

And that you needed to be upgraded to a supervisor.

Speaker 1 1:14

Which I've asked 76 times and haven't got a call back from one. But one more chance. You know, I every time I get this bill for this is still, for everybody wondering, this is still the bill from Vera breaking her arm on January the 4th. And here we are, well into over halfway through 2026. And I'm still battling this bill that should have been put in a self-pay, but whatever. And I've asked so many times for a supervisor to call me back, and they keep telling me that there's nothing they can do, blah blah blah, which we know is not true.

Speaker 1:48

It's not true.

Speaker 1 1:49

It's not true. So, but I keep saying, like, I know how you work, I know the system, and I'm not gonna take this for an answer. So every time I go to call, I'm like, do I just tell them that I'll pay it? And then I'm like, just try one more time to get a supervisor to call you back. So this morning I had my my HSA card out and everything, and then I was like, just try one more time. So again, same story every time.

Speaker 2:17

And that's what we're going about is we're trying to speak as much truth into this broken system. Western medicine is so broken, it's been broken for a very long time, and we are on the brink of things changing. People are becoming more educated, they're doing more research, they're learning that what used to be is no longer, meaning that what got us here is not the thing that's gonna get us there. And they're asking questions, people are getting smarter, and the thing that we want people to do, we want our listeners to do, is to continue asking more questions and don't accept the answers that you're getting for the most part, because most of the time they are not what the final answer is, and you have to do it, you have to be your own self-afficacy, you have to fight for yourself because nobody else is gonna do it. You're just a number. You're talking to somebody over in India or somewhere over there, they don't know who you are, they just have a list of people and they get yelled at all day long, so they're numb to it. You're talking to people that are numb to it, they literally have no feeling about your emotions at all because you're you're a million miles away, you'll never see this person on the phone, and the worst thing that you can do is scream at them because then you accidentally get disconnected.

Speaker 1 3:43

Yeah. Well, and they're just reading from a script, which we've said before. Like, and I even had a client um talk to me a couple last week. She was like, you know, you don't want to know this, but one of my first jobs ever was working in claims and insurance, and she goes, We just literally read off a piece of paper, and I'm like, things we already know, right? But it's just being re reconfirmed by somebody that actually worked in it that was like, Yep, this is what you're supposed to say. You're supposed to say no, you have to deny. And I don't know. I'm on call like 84 right now and still being don't know.

Speaker 4:17

So it's it's always funny how these I said last time, thank you very much to all of our health insurance companies over the years because you have given us countless hours of of content that we can pull from. And you guys keep you're eating it up. We're not losing listeners, we're gaining listeners because you're resonating with this. People are resonating with this same story. So, good intrude there.

Key West Walk That Felt Impossible

Speaker 4:44

Uh I did want to bring up us a convert or a situation that I personally experienced a couple of months ago. We were down in Key West, and Jenni is a beast. When we go to Key West, I'm not going to Key West to keep up my exercise regimen.

Speaker 1 5:02

You used to not even pack shoes. At least now you pack shoes. Yeah, I wouldn't even step for the right trip.

Speaker 5:07

I wouldn't even pack shoes. Like, I'm not going to Key West to work out.

Speaker 1 5:11

True.

Speaker 5:12

Like it's boat time, fish, water, like not exercise. But every morning Jenni wakes up before the rest of us and she will go run around the island, go exploring, running, and I'm going, I just just the thought of that is not nice. Like, I don't even want to think of that. So this particular morning, we wake up and it's a beautiful morning, and I'm going, I'm gonna go for a walk with you, but we're not running.

Speaker 1 5:42

Right.

Speaker 5:42

We're not running, we're walking. So we go, I put my shoes on because I brought shoes this time, and we're going on a walk. And if anybody has ever walked with Jenni, you'll know that Jenni's walk is like a yaw for a normal person. There's nothing walking about it. I don't know how she does it, but there was one point where you thought that you were gonna actually start participating in the speed walking challenges.

Speaker 1 6:11

I did think about it.

Speaker 6:13

I mean, it's just insane how fast she can walk, and it's effortless for her. Versus me, I felt like I had a parachute on and I felt like I was dragging a sled behind me, and we didn't make it five minutes, and I'm huffing and puffing. I'm going, Jenni, you gotta slow down. She goes, No, you need to speed up because we got some we're walking.

Speaker 1 6:37

You gotta figure it out.

Speaker 6:38

You've gotta figure it out. So I'm like, okay, let's go. And I try harder. And we're like 15 minutes into this thing, and I'm going, why is this so freaking difficult? And out of nowhere, I go, let me just check my pelvis alignment real quick. Let me just do a proactive pelvis correction just to see if it helps in any way, shape, or form. Because it just felt like my low back just didn't feel great. And I just assumed is because we just got done on a five-hour boat ride the day before the seas were not ideal, sleeping in a different bed, like nothing was ideal. So I did that pelvis correction and start walking again, and I'm going, oh my gosh, I was passing Jenni after that.

Speaker 1 7:26

Were you?

Speaker 7:26

No, I wasn't, I know I wasn't, I wasn't passing you.

Speaker 1 7:29

Uh, but you kept saying, like, oh my gosh, I feel so much better. And you actually did pick up a pace. Like, I was actually like, okay, now we're moving. This is good.

Speaker 7:38

It was crazy because I had not personally experienced that before. I didn't have back pain, and I for whatever reason, I'm like, let me just do a proactive pelvis correction real quick. It takes you me two seconds to do it. Any of you that have been in my world, you know it takes two seconds to do this. And magically I could just walk effortlessly. And I was in such uh shock and awe of this that I couldn't stop saying it for like the next five minutes. I'm going, I cannot believe how easy it is to walk now. Like I just felt so labored before that, and I'm going, wow, this is effortless now. Like, let's walk around the island a couple of times. This is great. Let's go.

Speaker 1 8:24

I wouldn't go that far.

Speaker 8:25

Yeah, I wouldn't go that far either. Like, because it was we had to get to breakfast. It was bloody merry time by then.

Speaker 1 8:33

But it what you did have a big difference just in the amount of effort you're putting in, the speed that you were able to walk, the enjoyment of actually being able to walk a little with a little less

What A Pelvis Correction Is

Speaker 1 8:46

effort. But why don't you tell them like what is for people who haven't been here, what is the pelvis correction? What did you do?

Speaker 8:53

So whenever you have any type of lower extremity deficit, knee pain, back pain, ankle pain, hip pain, there's usually some type of pelvic alignment issue. And we're talking about a hair, a fraction of a fraction of an inch misalignment. So nothing that you would visibly see, but the joints where your hips and your pelvis and your back don't all come into perfect alignment. And the problem that occurs is the muscles that attach from your hips to your pelvis are no longer 100% efficient when the alignment of the bones that they attach to are not perfectly aligned.

Speaker 1 9:38

Particularly on one side. One side's working hard, the other side's not firing or working well.

Speaker 9:44

Yeah, we we don't need to get into too much of the weeds here, but think about it this way: here's a good analogy for to be able to communicate through listening. You're standing on a dock, you have a rope in your hand, the other end of the rope is attached to a boat, you're trying to pull the boat to you, but in between you and the boat, the rope is wrapped around a piling, not in a circle, but just kind of like around a piling. So it's almost like a triangle, and you're trying to pull the boat to you, and you're pulling hard, and the boat's kind of coming towards you, but it's not as easy as if you just took the rope around the piling and it was a direct line between you and the boat, and the boat just comes to you with no effort. That's the that's a similar analogy for your muscles. When your pelvis is out of alignment, just a hair, the muscles are kind of like the rope around a piling. They just can't contract the way that they would be able to contract if you were in proper alignment. So when I went and did that quick self-pelvic correction, took me two seconds to do it. I used my own muscles to adjust my pelvis back into proper alignment, and then the muscles that I do have are able to work that much more efficiently. Does that answer the question?

Speaker 1 11:04

Yeah. And this is something that people can do many times throughout the day to just check or to keep the pelvis in place. Now, if the pelvis is out of place and it's been out of place for a long time, will this pelvis correction actually fix the problem?

Speaker 11:18

The pelvis correction never fixes a problem. Right. Right? The pelvis correction is just a band-aid. There's a reason why your pelvis goes out of alignment in the first place. But when you're traveling and you're on vacation and you're not around any of your providers that can help you get back into place, this is the best thing. It's the I've said this, I can't even tell you how many times I've said this over the years when I'm working with somebody, and I start off the conversation by saying, This is the most valuable thing that I'll ever teach you. How to correct your own pelvis. Because you can be on vacation somewhere and your back goes out, you bend over to pick up a pencil, or you sneeze and your back goes out. And most people, their vacation would be ruined. Like they're in bed for the vacation, or they can't go on any excursions, or whatever it is, their vacation is ruined. But for everybody in my world, that happens, and all you do is you fix your pelvis and your vacation keeps going.

Speaker 1 12:18

Right. And it doesn't take the pain away immediately if you're having pain. You weren't having pain the day that you did it. But if you're having pain or the back does go out, the pain doesn't go away immediately by doing this pelvis correction, but it's the consistency of doing it to fix you know the shift is where the pain will start to die down because the muscles can start relaxing and working efficiently again.

Speaker 12:43

Yeah, the pain doesn't go away, but the party still goes on. Right. To quote one of our good friends, Mike, he's got four motors on his boat, and I'll never forget it because I didn't I've never really hung out with anybody that had four motors before hanging out with Mike. And I remember talking, I don't forget how the conversation came up, but something happened to one of them and the party still went on. And he goes, That's the reason why you have four engines and not three. Because when you have four and one of them goes out, three engines will still get you to where you want to be and you can still go at a normal pace. If you only have three and one goes out, now you only have two, the party doesn't go on. So this pelvis correction, it's a way for you to keep the party going on. Yes, you'll still be in discomfort, but you can still function, you can still move, you're not gonna be confined to bed, you'll still go on the excursions, you can still live your life. You can still keep up with your beautiful wife walking at a 4.8 pace around Key West when you're dehydrated and beat up and battered and bruised from the boat ride down the day before.

Speaker 1 13:53

Dehydrated's your fault, not my fault. But to uh well like to the point. My leg length is only I think we're five inches separate in height, right? I'm five six, you're six one, is that five inches? Anyway, I'm not a math major, but we're like five inches, maybe six inches separated in height, but our leg length is only one inch different.

Speaker 14:21

Yeah, seven inch difference. Seven inch different and a one inch difference in leg length, so we can almost wear the same length pants.

Speaker 1 14:29

Almost can wear the same. So I have really long legs, that's the point of that. And so I yeah, my strides just long and fast. Can't help it. But anyway, you fixed your pelvis and you were able to walk around the island with me. Yeah, it was. I don't know if you mentally enjoyed it, but I did mentally enjoy it once. And they moved the southernmost tip. That's when we found out that they moved the southernmost tip. We just our minds were blown.

Speaker 14:57

Your mind was blown because you are used to it being in the same place every time you run around the island. I'm not used to it. I don't ever see the thing because what am I doing? I'm not running around the island. You're like, that's not where it's supposed to be. And I'm going, well, where's it supposed to be? You're like, blocks away. It's not this.

Speaker 1 15:15

Yeah, it's nuts. And then you asked Chat and he lied to you. Yeah, it did not move.

Speaker 15:22

Chat was very confused about the renovation that was occurring with the southernmost tip.

Speaker 1 15:27

Yeah, it was just a renovation, it's gonna go back, don't worry.

Speaker 15:29

Yeah.

Why Inefficiency Turns Into Pain

Speaker 15:30

Good. So the biggest thing that we want to communicate here is that there are things that you can do proactively that will help you become more efficient. And a lot of times it's not just waiting until the wheels fall off. Meaning that had I not known or even thought to check my pelvis, I would have dreaded that walk. Or not dreaded it, hated it.

Speaker 1 15:55

Well, and probably at the end of the walk, you probably would have had back pain because now you just tried to walk and keep up a fast pace with your pelvis out of alignment, then the muscles get more overworked and underworked on different sides, then you would have had back pain for sure.

Speaker 16:11

I'm glad that you brought that up because everybody wants to know what causes back pain, what causes knee pain, what causes plantar fasciitis. And the reality is something happens way before you ever have pain.

Speaker 1 16:26

Right.

Speaker 16:26

So my pelvis being out of alignment caused the muscles that attach to my pelvis to be inefficient. Inefficiency is the precursor to inflammation. Inefficiency is the precursor to inflammation. So now we have inflammation beginning, but it takes a while for the inflammation to get to a level to where you can actually perceive it as pain.

Speaker 1 16:50

Yeah.

Speaker 16:51

So you're right, if I would have just powered through and been henstrong and just tried to keep on your coattails for that entire walk, hating life, there's a very good chance that later on that day or even the next day I would have got out of bed and been like, oh my gosh, what happened to my back?

Speaker 1 17:08

Right.

Speaker 17:09

Well, it wasn't the bed, it's what I did the night before or the morning before. Walked around the island with my pelvis out of alignment.

Speaker 1 17:17

Yeah. And the pelvis can go out for many reasons. I mean, it could be something such as riding the boat down in this tough seas that we had and being banged around a little bit from picking up and moving bags on and off of the boat where we're twisting and not actually activating the muscles correctly, getting it out of the car, sitting on long plane rides.

Speaker 17:38

You know, I'm thinking about this a little bit more, and I think that I might just have you captain the boat so that I can ride in the beanbag. Because I think you had a pretty smooth ride down there on the beanbag.

Speaker 1 17:52

It was lovely.

Speaker 17:53

It was lovely.

Speaker 1 17:54

Yeah. The ride home in the bean bag was very wet, whereas you were not wet at the home.

Speaker 18:01

But I was still getting banged around.

Speaker 1 18:03

But you were getting banged up, but you weren't covered in seaweed and salt water.

Speaker 18:08

That was the most seaweed that I've ever had on the boat. That was so rough. That was awesome.

Speaker 1 18:15

I would had you could see the salt on my skin, and Jake saw, how is it back there? No. Salty.

Speaker 18:23

Lovely.

unknown 18:23

Yeah.

Speaker 18:24

Lovely.

Speaker 1 18:25

It's beautiful. I'm cool. I'm the hot, that's for sure.

Speaker 18:30

Yeah, it was nice and cool.

Speaker 1 18:31

Yeah.

Speaker 18:32

Yeah.

Speaker 1 18:33

Um, but, anyways, so pelvis can go out for many reasons, most of the time, due to insufficiencies, something not working well, and then the pelvis going out causes more insufficiencies, which leads to inflammation, which leads to pain.

Travel Tips And Updating The Video

Speaker 1 18:48

Check your pelvis. You have a pelvis correction video on YouTube that's approximately 11 years old.

Speaker 18:55

We should probably do an updated one.

Speaker 1 18:57

I know I've asked you a couple times.

Speaker 18:59

You've asked me a lot. Well, it's kind of like this video podcast. How many times have you asked me to do this? It's taken years.

Speaker 1 19:05

Yeah. Well, I'll just keep asking. Kind of like I'll just keep calling the insurance company in the hospital.

Speaker 19:13

Squeaky wheel gets the grease.

Speaker 1 19:15

Yeah, Stella. Mom, Mom, can you? Can I? Can you? Can I?

Speaker 19:19

Can I have a cookie? Can I have a cookie?

Speaker 1 19:22

I forget what it was. Oh to get in the pool.

Speaker 19:25

We this woman.

Speaker 1 19:27

Yeah.

Speaker 19:28

We was woman.

Speaker 1 19:30

She asked me like a hundred times to get in the pool. I did. Yeah. I gave in. Okay. Good? Yeah. Good for me.

Speaker 19:40

Yeah, I think that was good.

Speaker 1 19:43

So can we have a new pelvis correction video?

Speaker 19:46

Let's make a new pelvis correction video. A good little preventative thing to check yourself before you wreck yourself. But more importantly, it's something that you should keep in your back pocket whenever you're traveling, whenever you're abroad, and something's gonna happen at some point.

Speaker 1 20:00

They literally will keep it in their back pocket because it'll be on YouTube on their phone, which will be in their back pocket.

Speaker 20:05

Okay, alright. I see what you're doing here. Got it, got it. I see where you're going with this thing. And it's funny we're talking about this boating trip because we're getting ready to go on another keys trip here in a couple of days. Yep. But it's gonna let's knock on some wood. It's gonna be nice, smooth sailing. No seaweed in the boat this time, because the seas are gonna be smooth.

Speaker 1 20:25

You say that every time.

Speaker 20:27

It's gonna be gorgeous, but this time it's gonna happen.

Speaker 1 20:30

Okay.

Speaker 20:30

This time it's gonna happen.

Speaker 1 20:32

We'll follow up on the next recording and let you guys know how smooth it was.

Speaker 20:36

Uh depending on the energy that's coming out of our voice on the next episode, you'll know how bad did we get up, beat up, battered, and abused on the ride home. Or was it just smooth sailing? Like, could we slalom ski out there? That's what's gonna happen.

Speaker 1 20:53

Okay.

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unknown 20:54

Yeah.

Speaker 1 20:54

Ready?

Speaker 20:55

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Speaker 1 21:31

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Speaker 21:37

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Speaker 1 21:38

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Speaker 21:46

Good.

Speaker 1 21:47

Ciao for now.

Speaker 21:48

Ciao for now.