Chiropractic Postural Assessment

Postural analysis is primarily used by chiropractors and fitness experts to examine the structural balance or imbalance of the body. Much like a car that requires regular maintenance and servicing, your body too needs the same level of care, or even more so, to function at an optimal level.

It is crucial for you to understand that postural analysis works as a means to a better, if not the best, posture imaginable.  Chiropractors are experts at analyzing posture and spinal problems.

A Chiropractor searches for the problems that are at the root of poor posture, analysing spinal curvatures, movement and alignment. Some of the postural analyses a Chiropractor undertakes includes assessing a patient for:

• changes in the stance (eg. the outward turning of one or both feet)
• alignment of the knees
• levelling of the hips or pelvis
• height differences across the shoulders
• tilting of the head and neck
• forward tilting of the pelvis
• forward head translation
• increase in the spinal curvatures
• changes to gait (walking)

The Spine and the Nervous System

Common interferences to the nervous system occur between some of the 24 moving bones of the spinal column. A loss of normal motion or position of these bones can irritate or impair the function of the nervous system.

This can disrupt the transmission of controlling nerve impulses. With improved spinal function people often report improved organ and system function. Your Chiropractor can help remove any interference that may be impairing normal health.

When under proper control of your nervous system, all the cells, tissue, and organs of your body are designed to resist disease and ill health. The Chiropractic approach to better health is to locate and help reduce interferences to your natural state of being healthy.

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