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Sitting Posture - Articles
Trying Out Yoga's Sitting Postures
by
Health&Fitness GuideforDummies
Posted
Fri 24 Apr 2009 7:22am
Some contemporary Hatha Yoga manuals feature more than 50 sitting postures, which demonstrate not only the inventiveness of Yoga practitioners, but also the body's amazing versatility. Still, all you may ever need are perhaps half a dozen yogic sitting postures.
Chair-sitting posture
If you, like most Westerners, are accustomed to sitting
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Can Disk Herniations Be Caused By Bad Posture When Sitting ?
by
Dr. Eben Davis
Posted
Tue 02 Jun 2009 4:35pm
of their work day sitting in front of a computer. Most of the retired patients we treat spent most of their work day in front of a computer when they were working. And, just about all... that our bodies were not designed to be sitting. Sitting is the position that puts the most amount of pressure in the disks (which over time can lead to bulges and herniations
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Improving Postural Control in Sitting
by
Your Therapy Source
Posted
Thu 02 Dec 2010 11:28am
Physical Therapy published research that compared two interventions to improve postural control in sitting between two groups of infants with cerebral palsy. Thirty five... on the Gross Motor Function Measure. With regards to center of pressure measurements in sitting, the infants who received the perceptual motor program had an advantage.
Reference
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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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