Postural assessment Flashcards
Benefits of optimum posture
- Good shock absorbance
- Assists in weight acceptance
- Energy transfer during movement
- Leads to more efficient movement and energy usage
Drawbacks of poor posture
- Abnormal demands on body
- Increases demands during performance
- Shortening of some structures
- Lengthening of opposite structures
What to look for (posterior)
Levels of:
- Earlobes, shoulders, scapula, hips, PSIS, medial malioli
- Trunk muscle balance
Straight calcaneous
- Foot arches
- Weight distribution
- Toes seen on either side of foot
What to look for (lateral)
Position of:
- Head, shoulder
- Knee, feet
- Spinal curvature
What to look for (anterior)
Levels of:
- Earlobes, shoulders, nipples, finger tips, iliac crest, patella, medial malioli
- Patella should point straight ahead
- Neutral knees
- Foot arches
Pes cavus
High arch, more stress prone, Less mobility in rear foot, associated with claw toe
Pes planus
Low arch, less prone to stress, More mobility in rear foot
Genu valgus
Knees angle towards each other
Genu varus
Knees angle away from each other
Genu recurvatum
Knee hyperextension
Anteversion
Toes face inwards
Retroversion
Toes point outwards
Hyperlordotic
- Lumbar extension
- Anterior pelvic tilt
- Protruding abdomen
Sway back
- Head is forwards
- Posterior pelvic tilt
- Hip and knee hyperextension
- T* flexion
- L* extension
Flatback
- Posterior pelvic tilt
- Hip extension
- Knee hyperextension
- T* kyphosis
- L* Lordosis
