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Your Body's Posture---Get It Corrected, Part 1
by
Mark D.
Posted
Tue 26 Aug 2008 4:34pm
Starting today, I will begin a four part series about your body's posture. For your body to reach optimal strength, flexibility, balance and power, you must correct your postural imbalances and dysfunctions as much as possible. Let's start by talking about correct body posture. I will write about postural imbalances and postural distortion patterns
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Your Body's Posture---Get It Corrected, Part 4
by
Mark D.
Posted
Tue 26 Aug 2008 4:34pm
In the final part(4) of this series, I will detail how to correct postural distortions.
Common postural distortions are:
1. Lumbo-Pelvic-Hip Postural Distortion - This distortion causes you to have increased lumbar lordosis and an anterior pelvic tilt as shown below.
Lumbo-Pelvic-Hip postural distortions are characterized
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Your Body's Posture---Get It Corrected, Part 3
by
Mark D.
Posted
Tue 26 Aug 2008 4:34pm
), functional efficiency is achieved. Functional efficiency prevents over-training, injuries and lackluster performance. The kinetic chain can not have functional efficiency when postural... while the prime movers and synergists perform functional movements.
5. Neutralizers - These muscles counteract the unwanted action of other muscles.
Postural
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Your Body's Posture---Get It Corrected, Part 2
by
Mark D.
Posted
Wed 19 Mar 2008 6:17pm
The cumulative injury cycle and postural distortion patterns are real problems that everyone has to deal with at some point. As was stated in Part 1 of this series, you must correct your postural imbalances and dysfunctions as much as possible to enable your body to reach optimal strength, flexibility, balance and power. I also wrote that if one
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Your Body's Posture---Get It Corrected, Part 3
by
Mark D.
Posted
Thu 20 Mar 2008 3:05pm
postural dysfunctions are present.
When muscles are operating efficiently, they work together to reduce force, stabilize force and produce force in all 3 planes of motion.
1... movements.
5. Neutralizers - These muscles counteract the unwanted action of other muscles.
Postural dysfunctions are caused when the kinetic chain is out of line. When
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Improve your Posture with the Posture Corrector
by
Nav J.
Posted
Sun 23 Aug 2009 10:22pm
Recently, I have been getting many emails from patients who wish to improve their posture. The most common posture I see is the forward head posture (or forward head carriage) with rolled shoulders forward. A slouched looking posture that is not healthy for your spine. The Posture Corrector is the best support that I have found to keep your
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If You Have Forward Head Posture, What Other Posture Might You Have?
by
Nav J.
Posted
Sun 19 Sep 2010 7:01am
Forward Head Carriage is one of the most (if not the most) postural misalignments that is seen. The bad thing is that so many misalignments go hand and hand with it.
The first is rolled shoulders. Your shoulders should be back, but shift your head forward and see how hard it is to keep your head back. The Posture Corrector is the best tool I have
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