Tim Pawlenty Is Trying To Revive His Campaign Using Minnesota’s Budget Headaches. Does He Get Headaches As Well?

Does Tim Pawlenty's posture give him headaches?

Tim Pawlenty has chimed in on Minnesota’s budget woes, hoping to get some of the spotlight and ignite his presidential 2012 run.  If you did not know this, he was the governor of Minnesota for two terms and was involved with similar budget standoffs and was not afraid to shut down the state’s government.  This is a huge headache for the people in the state’s government.

Upon looking at Mr. Pawlenty’s other posture (body style, not political), I noticed a number of traits that can surely cause headaches, neck pain, back pain, knee pain and give him a poor standing posture. Notice on the left photo in the collage his right arch falls in, and both sides flare out, which will make his shoulders roll forward, something seen in all photos.

He is likely quite inflexible based on his body style (people with feet that flare out have flexibility issues due to inefficient body mechanics), and also probably suffers from left hip pain.  This is because his structure will cause his right hip to tighten up and his left side will strain, causing pain.  He will also likely have a heavy heel strike, because this type of asymmetry will torque the pelvis and his legs will be tight.  I wouldn’t be surprised if he gets left-sided knee pain because with he understrides on the right, he will overstride on the opposite side which will result in tightening of the left quadraceps affecting the kneecap and the left hip flexors. Ultimately, he may even have disc problems from this type of posture. Shoulder blade pain and neck tension with headaches is certainly within the realm of possibilitys as well.

I bet his mother was always on him for slouching, however, this type of body style will actually cause you to slouch naturally, as well see in all his photos.

Eventually, I would love to speak with Mr. Pawlenty, if he is so inclined and find out if my analysis is correct. This is of course, following the many clues in the public domain photos I have been able to find.

Good luck on your presidential aspirations for 2012.

John Boehner Backs Obama On Far-Reaching Debt Ceiling Plan. Do You Wonder How His Back Has Been Feeling lately?

Check out John Boehner's stance (the non political one I mean)

John Boehner has had the back-breaking task of negotiating with the president, and members of his political partiy to come up with a solution for the nations debt crisis.  Hopefully, it will finally come together for both of them and make sense as public policy to protect the dollar, and our economy.

Upon looking more closely at Mr. Boehner, I have noticed a number of things about his stance (literally)!  I found quite a number of photos of  the house speaker on the internet.  A number of things are common to all of them. Notice is right shoulder always hangs forward.  This typically means that his right foot flares out.  If you notice the middle photo of him on the golf course, you can see this is indeed the case and he has an asymmetrical body style, with the right foot flaring out, the left foot not as much and we see it  as his right shoulder leans forward.  Typically, someone who is built this way will have the right hip lower which will cause the pelvis to torque.  This is the most common presentation of back pain.  The right side will tighten up, the left side strains and he likely experiences lower back pain and possibly left hip or leg discomfort.  People with this type of build may also experience left knee pain and left shoulder pain as well, with chronic tightness into the neck, often blamed on stress.

Back on the golf course, it looks as if Mr. Boehner is leaning on his golf club on the right and holding his lower back on the left (notice the hand placement).  It looks like his back is indeed uncomfortable as he stood with the president and I hear he is a very good golfer.

I have a couple of free suggestions for the house speaker.  First, if you do not wear them already, you may wish to consider seeing someone and getting foot orthotics.  It would improve your already good game of golf and help level your pelvis.  The other suggestion is to consider seeing a good chiropractor (I understand that this service is available to congress people through the American Chiropractic Association).

Eventually, I would love to speak with Mr. Boehner, if he is so inclined and find out if my analysis is correct. This is of course, following the many clues in the public domain photos I have been able to find.

By the way, good luck on the debt situation; it’s not easy to balance competing agendas when the goal is to ultimately get the country back on a solid fiscal course.

President Obama has the weight on his shoulders with our economy and our Afghanistan troop withdrawl. What else makes his shoulders heavy?

What else is weighing down the presidents shoulders?

President Obama is quite busy fulfilling his promises of a withdrawal from Afghanistan. Of course, the economy has been weighing him down lately as well. This stress, combined with some body style issues is enough to make his back ache too.

There are quite a few photos of President Obama standing so we can see his full posture, and do less guessing.  Notice in all photos, his left foot appears to fall in and the right foot turns out.  If you look at his right knee, that turns in and his right shoulder rolls forward.  I know that the president loves basketball.  Mr. President, have you ever had that Basketball game that your outside shot or your foul shot is always off?  Your body style may be the reason.

The president likely drops his right hip as he walks which will tighten the muscle in his right hip and cause periodic pain in his left lower back and shoulder-blade.  My guess is that, based on what I see here, he has low arches in his feet and requires foot orthotics (he likely has them, after all, he is the President and likely as the best medical advisers as well).  He also likely gets left shoulder-blade tightness periodically and probably attributes this to stress (most people mistakenly do).

Eventually, I would love to speak with President Obama, if he is so inclined and find out if my analysis is correct.

Good luck on your reelection run, your Afghan troop withdrawal management and your efforts to stabilize our economy; you’ll need it!

Good luck on your presidential run, you’ll need it!

Michelle Bachman Wins Iowa Republican Straw poll . From the looks of how she stands, could there be other pains staking out in her neck and back too.

Michelle Bachman is painstakingly creating her presidential run for 2012.

Michelle Bachman just won the republican straw poll in Iowa. She has been shown to be a great fundraiser and is now the front runner for her party.  Even though she has been known to suffer from migraines, her political headaches have only just begun, which I suspect will aggravate her physical headaches too . From her stance (the physical, rather than the political, there are other pains she must be experiencing as well

Reviewing a large number of her photos, her right shoulder rolls forward, although she does not have horrible posture.  Typically, if the shoulder rolls forward, it usually means that the foot turns out which is revealed in the middle picture.

Conclusions: Typically, someone with this type of postural asymmetry on the right side would from time to time experience left shoulder pain and left hip pain because the right side of the hip would tighten and the left side would strain, causing hip pain.  There is no obvious head tilt in the photos so I doubt she gets headaches.  She is also not horribly asymmetrical so I would say that if she does experience these types of symptoms, it is likely infrequent.

Eventually, I would love to speak with Michelle Bachman, if she is so inclined and find out if my analysis is correct.

Good luck on your presidential run, you’ll need it!

Vice President Biden Takes On The Back Breaking Task of Debt Reduction. Is This The Only Thing Making His Back Ache?

Vice President Joe Biden has the back-breaking task of Debt Reduction.

With congressional leaders, all working on their compromise position regarding debt reduction, and the idea of raising the debt ceiling, Vice President Biden has the back-breaking task of helping to create the compromise that makes this happen by the August 2011 deadline.  Looking at the Vice president, who incidentally, has pretty good posture, I do notice a few things that can create other pains in the back.

Notice in all his photos, his right shoulder turns forward and down.  Typically, this means that his right foot turns out and judging from the middle picture, this would confirm this (looking at his knee on the right, you can extrapolate that he has right foot flare.  Typically, people who have this are likely to get periodic lower back problems because of the asymmetry and the way it affects the myofascia surrounding the pelvis and lower back regions.  When this occurs, his neck and upper back is likely stiff as well.

Conclusions:  Overall, the Vice president has a moderate asymmetry which means the likelihood of lower back issues is small (more asymmetry, more problems) and he has likely noticed a loss of flexibility with age.  I would also bet he occasionally feels tightness on his left shoulder-blade extending into his neck, a common cause of the typical headache, however, I do not see any head tilt in the photos, or of others I have seen on the internet.  He probably rarely if ever gets headaches.

Eventually, I would love to speak with Vice President Biden, if he is so inclined and find out if my analysis is correct.

Good Luck Vice President Biden on your quest to achieve agreement on the debt problem between the political parties by the deadline in August.  I hope your back holds up (:

Governor Christie of NJ is avoiding the headache of running for president, but does he have neck pain and regular headaches? His body style gives us clues.

Governor Christie wants to avoid the headaches of running the country, but he may have other types of headaches because of how he is built.

Governor Christie has been busy trying to reshape NJ government, he has been also hounded by his political party to seek the presidential nomination.  What a headache and a big pain in the neck!  Speaking of headaches and pains in the neck, I had been looking over some recent  photos of him in action.

He is a big guy with a so so frame, and in all his photos, I noticed his left shoulder leaning forward.  Typically, this means the foot on that side will flare out and from the look of the middle photo of him standing, he is knock knees (knees bow in).  He also likely has low arches or flat feet, with the problem being worse on the left side.  With someone with this type of frame, and the extra weight, I believe he likely suffers from periodic lower back pain on the right and tightness in the right shoulder-blade pulling into the neck.

Governor Christie can certainly benefit from the use of foot orthotics which will help protect his knees and improve his body symmetry.  A good chiropractor would also be quite helpful too!

Eventually, I would love to speak with the governor, if he is so inclined and find out if my analysis is correct.

Good Luck Governor Christie on reshaping NJ.  That is quite a job you have taken.  I certainly can understand why you would not run for higher offices at this time (namely the presidency) since you have your hands full and applaud you for sticking with your goal of cleaning up NJ.

Mitt Romney Was Seen In The GOP Debate Last Night. How Did He Feel?

Mitt has both the presidential run, Massachusetts and some postural issues on his shoulders

Mitt Romney has been quite busy giving the presidency another try, last night , while debating his GOP competition. He is a busy guy and with that comes the stress of balancing it all.

I also noticed how he stands (but not sure at this time what he stands for) and his right shoulder leans forward in the many photos I was able to find on him.  He is round-shouldered on his right side which indicates he tends to toe out on the right with his foot.  Typically, this would cause him to have pain in his left hip, possible occasional leg pain as well as tightness on the left side of his neck and shoulder as his hip joints strain on the opposite side of the toed out foot.

Overall, he does not have horrible posture (not to be confused with posturing) and he has likely moderate overpronation (foot flare) on the right. After a stressful week like this, he will likely be visiting his massage therapist, chiropractor or both.

Eventually, I would love to speak with Mitt, if he is so inclined and find out if my analysis is correct.

Good Luck Mitt. I know you will be quite busy during the upcoming campaign season:)

Newt Gingrich has presidential campaign headaches that are more than just a pain in the neck

Newt Gingrich posture study

Poor Newt!  His top echelon of people who were preparing him for a run for the 2012 president campaign.  Now, he had to deal with those headaches, however, I also noticed a few things which also are likely creating other pains in both the back and the neck.

Looking closely at dozens of photos of Newt, I noticed that his right shoulder leans forward, as his head leans to the right.  Typically, this means his right foot turns out.  He is not very round-shouldered as far as I can see, so I believe he has arches in his feet (a good thing).  The bad thing is that if his right foot turns out and his left foot does not, he will most certainly have lower back pain at times and may even feel it in the left side into the shoulder-blade and the neck and shoulder (His presidential campaign is not the only pain in the neck).

As a rule, people who walk this way because they are built this way have a short stride on the side of foot flare and also tighten in the opposite quadracep, a common cause of knee pain.

Eventually, I would love to speak with Newt, if he is so inclined and find out if my analysis is correct.  I think I have a better than 80% chance I am. Good luck Newt!

Anthony Weiner had a tough week. His back has to be killing him. Find out why here.

Anthony Weiner is not only in political pain, his back is killing him too

Anthony Weiner had a tough week. He got busted because he had some fun on twitter and unfortunately, it was with women outside his marriage.  Lets look a little bit closer. If you notice, his right shoulder in each photo hangs forward and down.  Typically, this means his right foot turns out which will cause his hip to drop on that side.  Since this will tighten his core muscles (mid back section) unevenly, he is likely experiencing torquing of the pelvis which creates left hip pain, possible left groin tightness  due to compensation (no relationship to the twitter photo in question of this area) and his left shoulder-blade is likely killing him.

There is also a great probability that he has flat feet (typically, the more the feet turn out and the arches fall in, the more rounded the shoulders become which is seen in all photos).

I would love to interview him personally and see if I have it right.  Based on his body style, I am likely right about most of this.