• Posture means position
• Posture can be defined as the relative arrangement of different parts of the body with the line of gravity.
• An ideal posture is one in which the body segments are aligned vertically and LOG passes through all joint axes.
• Good posture is healthy-more balance & efficient. And places less stress on the tissues of the body.
• Bad posture is unhealthy-less balance & efficient. And places less stress on the tissues of the body.
- Age: As age progresses the body gradually loses its capacity to absorb and transfer forces.
- Inactivity,Sedentary or reluctance to exercise: leads to loss of natural movement flow.
- Poor postural habit: eventually becomes your structure.
- Biomechanical compensation: muscle imbalance, adaptive shortening, muscle weakness, & instability within the core
- Body composition - increases load, stress the spinal structure,leads to spinal deviation.
- Workspace- Ergonomics
- Poor movement technique/Execution/ Training,injury- leads to reduced loading capacity or elasticity
- Appearance of increased height (social stigma)
- Muscle imbalances and contractures
- Pain
- Respiratory conditions
- Congenital anomalies
- Developmental problems
- Trauma
- Disease
