Corrective Culture Part 1 | Chek Totem Pole Series w/ Matthew Wallden
Apr 21, 2024
Holistic Health Practitioner Matthew Wallden joins the podcast to discuss the Chek Totem Pole, focusing on the impacts of nutrition on mid-face development, central sensitization and pain management, core stability for back pain prevention, and assessing the body using the totem pole model.
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Hierarchy Drives Health
- The CHEK Totem Pole ranks physiological drivers hierarchically, with higher elements exerting more control over health and movement.
- Treating symptoms without mapping upstream drivers often misses the true cause of chronic injuries.
Assess Upstream First
- When a client presents with local pain, assess upstream systems instead of focusing only on the symptomatic area.
- Use the totem pole as a map to check higher drivers like respiration, vision, and TMJ first.
Eyes On Horizon Shape Gait
- The nervous system prioritizes keeping the eyes on the horizon, shifting pelvis and gait to compensate for head or neck asymmetry.
- Small repeated shifts across many steps produce large cumulative load and tissue degeneration.