What is Posture?
“Stand up straight! Don’t slouch!” Good posture is important because it helps your body function. It promotes your ability to move efficiently and contributes to an overall feeling of well-being. Good posture is also good prevention. Poor posture means bones are not properly aligned, and muscles, joints, and ligaments take more strain. Faulty posture may cause you fatigue, muscular strain, and, in later stages, pain. Many individuals with chronic back pain can trace their problems to years of faulty postural habits. In addition, poor posture can affect the position and function of your vital organs, particularly those in the abdominal region.Good posture also contributes to good appearance; the person with good posture projects poise, confidence and dignity.
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN POSTURE AND HEALTH
Roger Sperry, Ph.D. (Nobel Prize in Physiology 1981) discovered that 90% of the brain’s activity is used to balance your body within the gravitational field of earth. If your body is mechanically distorted, it will affect the other 10% of the brain’s activity, which controls all the other body functions such as breathing, digestion and cognition.
If the body framework (bone structure and spine) is in an off-balanced or misaligned position it can impede or block the electrical and chemical transmissions of the nervous system, which controls all of your body’s functions. This interference to the nervous system can cause or contribute to all kinds of symptoms and illnesses (in other words, the feeling that “I am hurting or I am sick”).
Published research studies indicate that when body balance is restored, the body enters in a healing cycle that alleviates pain and symptoms, elevates the immune system, increases blood and oxygen circulation, normalizes nervous system communication and creates more optimum body performance (“I feel good again”).
When head tilt develops (as pictured above) and the body becomes imbalanced, the brain stem is compressed, restricting the flow of communication between the brain and body. Health and healing messages are restricted in the part of the body serviced by these compressed nerves. Diminished and impaired function and pain follows. This can cause pain and suffering and decrease the quality of your life. When the body is balanced, there is no stress or tension on the brain stem. This allows communications between the brain and body to travel back and forth unimpeded, promoting maximum health and healing. A BALANCED BODY WILL MAINTAIN HEALTH AT ITS OPTIMUM LEVEL.


Spinal disorder diseaes and treatment through rucken theraphy
