Posture

Question 1

What is posture?

Answer 1

• The position of your body parts in relation to each other

Question 2

What is gait?

Answer 2

• The manner in which you walk

Question 3

What are lordotic curves?

Answer 3

• Where the cervical and lumbar regions bend anteriorly

Question 4

What are kyphotic curves?

Answer 4

• Where the thoracic and sacral regions bend posteriorly

Question 5

What is scoliosis?

Answer 5

• An abnormal lateral curvature of the spine

Question 6

What do muscles do for posture?

Answer 6

• Supporters that keep the bones upright structure and provide necessary stability to hold them together at their joints

Question 7

What do fascial sheathing do for posture?

Answer 7

• Sheaths and pulleys of connective tissue create a framework that makes muscle bellies effective
• The body wouldn’t be held together and vertical without connective tissue

Question 8

What muscles build myofascial core in the body? (Trunk)

Answer 8

• Pelvic diaphragm, respiratory diaphragm, multifidi, transverse abdominis, internal and external obliques, thoracolumbar fascia (at the vertebrae)

Question 9

What is lordotic curved posture?

Answer 9

• When the pelvis “bowl” tips forward
• Occurs when the stabilizing musculature of the pelvis and abdominals weakens
• Cervical and lumbar regions bend anteriorly

Question 10

What is kyphotic curved posture?

Answer 10

• When you have a rounded back

- Thoracic and sacral regions bow posteriorly

Question 11

What is swayback?

Answer 11

• When the pelvis tilts posteriorly and then shifts forward in relation to the feet (opposite of lordotic curvature)

Question 12

What is torticollis?

Answer 12

• Involves abnormal shift of the head

- Caused by a tight or compromised sternocleidomastoid

Question 13

What is flat back?

Answer 13

• Another posterior tilt of the pelvis, but results in the curvature of the spine to straighten out