Your posture is the most important factor in how you move and the amount of tension or relaxation you feel in your body. When standing or sitting you are constantly fighting against the force of gravity. With the addition of injuries, lack of movement, etc., your body has gotten out of alignment. Tissues of all kinds (muscles, ligaments, nerves, fascia, bone) are the victims of misalignments.
The goal of Posturology is to correct misalignments in the body that create strain and compensations. These eventually lead to various types of break downs and symptoms. The ideal postural alignment causes minimal amount of stress and strain on both muscles and joints.
Although postural imbalances are very common, they are not ideal for your body to function optimally.
You’re familiar with the expression, garbage in – garbage out. It’s the same way with your posture. Your brain receives information from various receptors, such as your eyes and feet. If the information from these receptors are “out of tune”, your brain will adjust your posture based on this chaotic input.
When the information to your brain is disharmonic, over time your body will take on characteristics associated with getting old, such as stiffness, decreased range of motion, poor mobility and aches and pains.
Optimize The Input – Improve Your Posture!
Posturology improves your posture by recalibrating the “out of tune” receptors in your body. When your receptors begin to get “back in tune” with each other, your body’s shifts, tilts and rotations move toward proper alignment.
When your posture initially begins to break down you will not feel any discomfort. Left unaddressed, it is just a matter of time until the appearance of pain, stiffness and decreased movement efficiency. The limitation of the joint movements related to muscular stiffness will encourage the development of osteoarthritis and vertebral dysfunction.
Posturology optimizes neurological input to the central nervous system by stimulating sensory receptors (ex: feet and eyes) that have a direct and profound effect on the proper functioning of the musculo-skeletal system.
- The feet are often regarded as the cause of a problem but they can also be a reflection of a problem. Whenever and wherever a postural asymmetry is found, the foot is always a link between the body’s imbalance and the ground. The foot will always adapt to maintain balanced weight distribution as it is the connection between a postural imbalance and the ground: the foot adapts itself, then fixates itself.A device called a Neurostab which produces a high-frequency electromagnetic current is adhered to the sole of the foot. It stimulates nerve cells located in the arch of the foot and connected with higher brain nerve centers that regulate Muscular Chains, responsible for balance and walking. This creates a more even foot stance on the ground and enables each foot to send the same information to the brain. Ultimately, this will also create a level pelvis and level shoulders.
- The eye’s oculomotor muscles. Convergence problems of the eyes and other asymmetries in ocular movements will have repercussions on the whole postural ensemble. The eye is not only an element of vision, it is one of the most important receptors of the postural system.In order to address this oculomotor asymmetry, eye exercises are used to improve eye convergence. The resulting message that is sent to the brain will help keep your head level and your shoulders even.
The eye situates us in relationship to the horizon. When muscles that move the eyes are out of balance, our perception of the environment changes, and the entire body attempts to compensate for that phenomenon. In doing so, shifts and rotations of the shoulders and pelvis occur and postural alignment suffers.
The disordered state of sensors will cause postural changes that will prevent normal posture. By optimizing the function of the receptors, your brain will receive higher quality information so that your body can realign and you can enjoy the feeling of moving with ease.