How to do it
Once an hour: weight through the mid-foot, ribs stacked over the pelvis, chin back, shoulders loose. Hold ten seconds.
Default dose
8 · 10s
This is the library's default dose. Each person's programme is set after assessment, around the grade of their finding and their own conditions and limits.
Where it sits in a programme: Integrate
The fourth phase is integration: using the new pattern in whole, everyday movements — standing, bending, squatting, walking — so the correction does not stay on the exercise mat.
Which postural findings it is prescribed for
It appears in the example programme on these pages:
Take care
- If the movement causes pain or makes pain worse, stop and contact the clinic or your doctor.
Source
Textbook:
- Kendall FP, McCreary EK, Provance PG, Rodgers MM, Romani WA. Muscles: Testing and Function with Posture and Pain. 5th ed. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2005.
The classic reference for muscle testing and the posture types — sway back, flat back, lordosis — with the short and weak muscles of each.