Short leg scoliosis DSA- reading

Question 1

healthy people who are open adn ready internally to meet all external environment has to offer– posture and implications

Answer 1

Gentle, firm back curves; flexible body, pelvis-hips-knees

Capable of adaptation and homeostasis; maximal function within triune body

Question 2

Depressed, defeated individuals; downcast attitude who feel “I can’t”- posture and implications

Answer 2

posture is also “depressed.” Head drops forward, trunk bends downward, shoulders project forward “limp posture”
resembles a very tired person

Tendency toward cervical and lumbar lordosis coupled with thoracic kyphosis. Posture leads to an abnormal stretch of ligaments and to pain. Bioenergically a fatiguing posture, as keeping this position causes overload on the extensor muscles. Posture adds physiological tiredness to the preexisting psychological feeling. Decreases depth of inhalation and compromises the respiratory circulatory model.

Question 3

hyperkinetic individuals; aggressive individuals; anxiety; anger– posture and implications

Answer 3

Postural position very unbalanced. Shoulders are carried anteriorly. Pelvis is flexed, muscles are in a constant state of supported contraction

postural muscles especially psoas- prone to triggerpoints. Muscles of jaw, posterior neck, and shoulders especially tight.

Question 4

individuals ashamed of body maturity

Answer 4

posture is slumped with shoulders rolled inward

Prone for thoracic outlet symptoms from increased lordosis in neck and trigger points in pectoralis muscles

Question 5

Proud, outgoing individuals

Answer 5

chest leads

often a hard, rigid back

Question 6

Threatened, fearful individual

Answer 6

forward neck; prominent buttocks; protruding collapsed abdomen

Tightened buttocks, hamstrings and sphincters. Tight thoracoabdominopelvic diaphragms

Question 7

shame, sorrow, sadness

Answer 7

head hangs

Question 8

obstinate or determined

Answer 8

chin leads

Question 9

Psyco-orthopedic dynamic spinal curves –>

Answer 9

may be produced in the coronal plane by unilateral muscle contraction

–> type I dysfunction rotating into the convexity

Question 10

short leg –>

Answer 10

unlevel sacral base in the coronal plane–> lumbar vertebrae start to side bend away from the low base to keep the eyes level

Question 11

early postural compensation to short leg

Answer 11

dev’t of a longer single lumbar or lumbothoracic scoliotic curve– convex on the side of the low sacral base. C shaped curve.

Question 12

Later postural compensation to short leg

Answer 12

compensatory mechanisms redistribute postural responsibilities resulting in the formation of several lateral curves. (chornic)- S shaped curve. Shoulders and greater trochanteric planes are typically depressed on the same side as the depressed sacral base.

Question 13

functional/ secondary curve vs primary

Answer 13

if some spinal motion such as side bending can reduce a lateral curve, it’s functional or secondary.

If not, = structural, fixed, or primary curve.

Question 14

group curves are named for their

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convex side

Question 15

in group postural curve, spinal SB and Rotation are linked

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Thoracic and lumbar typically side bend in one direction and rotate in opposite direction

Question 16

posture and fascia

Answer 16

postural compensation may–> fascial dysfunction at all four transitional zones. Directional pattern of compensatory fascial function and dysfunction is also an alternating one.

Question 17

Important angles in scoliosis

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> 50 degrees- respiratory compromise

> 75 degrees- CV compromise