Posture and Gait Review Flashcards
Posture and Gait
Postural pattern?
Kyphosis – Lordosis posture
Posture and Gait
Kyphosis – Lordosis posture: elongated and shortened muscles
- Enlongated: neck flexors, upper back, external oblique, hamstrings
- Shortened: neck extensors, low back extensors, hip flexors
Posture and Gait
Postural pattern?
Flat-back posture
Posture and Gait
Flat-back posture: elongated and shortened muscles
- Elongated: hip flexors
- Shortened: hamstrings
Posture and Gait
postural pattern?
Sway back posture
Posture and Gait
Sway back posture: elongated and shortened muscles
- Elongated: hip flexors, external obliques, upper back extensors, neck flexors
- Shortened: hamstrings, upper portion of internal obliques
Posture and Gait
postural pattern?
lordosis posture
Posture and Gait
lordosis posture: elongated and shortened muscles
- elongated: anterior abdominal, hamstrings
- shortened muscles: low back, hip flexors
Posture and Gait
ideal posture by Kendall et al
- post coronal suture
- Through the external auditory meatus
- odontoid process
- middle of shoulder joint
- bodies of lumbar vertebrae
- sacral promontory
- slightly posterior to center of hip joint
- slightly ant to the axis of knee joint
- slightly ant to lat malleolus
- Through the calcaneocuboid joint
Posture and Gait
What is the role of the pelvis in gait in the sagittal plane?
Pelvic Tilt (sagiIal plane): 2.79° to 4°
Posture and Gait
What is the role of the pelvis in gait in the frontal plane?
Pelvic drop/list (frontal plane): 4° to 7.72°
Posture and Gait
What is the role of the pelvis in gait in the transverse plane?
Pelvic rotation (transverse plane): 10° to 10.4°
Posture and Gait
Characterized by a shorter step length and stance time on the side of the painful lower extremity; it may be accompanied by ipsilateral trunk lean with hip pain or a contralateral trunk lean with knee and foot pain.
Antalgic Gait
Posture and Gait
anything that makes the initiation of swing difficult: decreased trunk stability, inefficient AE of the pelvis, difficulty with hip flexion etc…
Backward trunk lean during initial swing
Posture and Gait
anything that makes the initiation of swing difficult (except the trunk control): inefficient AE of the pelvis, difficulty with hip flexion
Posterior pelvic tilt during initial swing
Posture and Gait
a relatively longer leg will create what type of deviation?
circumduction gait