Posture Flashcards
Which common clinical presentation involves head forward carriage?
HYPERKYPHOSIS
Which common clinical presentation involves lumbar spine in hyperextension?
HYPERLORDOSIS
What is the normal range of ASIS-PSIS tilt?
0 - 15
In proper scapular posture, the spine should be at _____.
T3
What stresses the structures which help to maintain upright posture?
GRAVITY
Endurance failures are typically related to what?
POSTURE
Which type of pain is described as pain resulting from the stretching or compression of pain sensitive structures/tissues?
MECHANICAL PAIN
Contracture is the adaptive ________________ of a muscle or other soft tissue.
SHORTENTING
not contraction
Postural fault is posture that deviates from __________.
NORMAL
Postural dysfunction involves adaptive ____________ or muscle _____________.
SHORTENING
or
WEAKNESS
Postural pain syndrome is pain from ____________ ________ of poor/prolonged posture.
MECHANICAL STRESS
Treat adaptively shortened structures __________.
FIRST
pain first
With anterior pelvic tilt, the hip is in what?
HIP FLEXION