When the structures of the human body are not symmetrical (asymmetrical) or aligned, our posture is distorted and this often gives rise to the pain mechanism of postural distortion. When our walking or gait pattern is not even and smooth, but tilted or jerky, this often gives rise to the pain mechanism of dysfunctional biomechanics.
The study of posture offers a great deal of information on health as well as many therapeutic possibilities. Posturology will help you eliminate the limitations associated with aging by reversing the degeneration process and identifies the important conditions of balance and off-balance for a human being in the symmetry and alignment of the body.
To live without discomfort and pain, balance is best maintained by having a body that is symmetrical – close to the same size, shape, and appearance on both sides of the body midline. And a body that is structurally aligned in the front, back, and side positions when viewed against the gravitational reference of plumb and grid lines.
Therapist often find postural patterns of tilt, rotation, flexion, extension, projection and obliquity during the initial assessment phase of a Therapy treatment. The accompanying painful forces of compression, torque, and shearing in the body are frequently the basic pain causing factors at work in a pain syndrome. With the other pain mechanisms of ischemia, trigger points, nerve entrapment and nerve compression playing secondary roles over time in the natural history of the patient’s pain. Often a history that has gone untreated because the therapist simply does not look at the patient in a truly scientific manner. With Posturology, we use observation, measurement, and science to help educate our patients to the sources of their pain.