The document discusses the importance of understanding posture in transitioning clients from rehabilitation to performance, emphasizing how modern lifestyles contribute to postural adaptations. It highlights the role of postural analysis in addressing injuries linked to joint misalignments and stresses the responsibility of health care providers to incorporate posture into exercise prescriptions. Additionally, it outlines the implications of muscle weakness and tightness related to posture and movement dysfunctions.

1. Introduction to POSTURE –
Better understanding to get clients from rehab
to performance.
PRESENTED BY:
Max MARTIN BAppSc (Hons) AEP

2. Creating a road map
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3. Postural Adaptation
Posture is susceptible to adaptation to the
environment it experiences.
Modern Western requirements (work and home)
highly repetitious and/or inert in nature.
Our posture adapts to these requirements.
EXAMPLE………

4. The IT animal!
Characterised by (?):
Kyphotic thoracic spine
Forward head posture
Shoulders rolled forward
Strong and short cervical extensors
Shortened hip flexors that act as
stabilisers

5. A crystal Ball?
Postural analysis can help us explain current injuries,
or predict future injuries.
Many common chronic injury presentations can be
closely linked to joint misalignment.
We have a duty of care as Health Care Providers to
consider posture in our exercise prescription.

6. Prescription Paradigms
Movement is a behaviour
Developed, learned and adapted.
Faulty Posture or Movement is a SYMPTOM of
dysfunction
Stabilisers typically become hypotonic/inhibited (weak)
– ‘allowing’ faulty posture
Gross movers typically become hypertonic/facilitated
(tight) – ‘driving’ faulty posture

7. Why weakness?
Muscle inhibition due to pain/injury
Muscle susceptibility – eg. VMO vs VL atrophy post surgery
Muscle inactivity in chronic postures – eg. Sedentary behaviours
CNS driven protection

8. Why tightness?
Joint ROM can be limited by the following factors
1. Joint constraints
2. connective tissue (40%) – protective, inactivity,
hypertonicity
3. Neurogenic constraints (voluntary and reflexive) -
protective
4. Myogenic constraints

9. tightness?
Or
gaining stability??

10. synergist
tightness weakness
antagonist

11. Upper Cross Syndrome
Lower Cross Syndrome

12. Clinical/Practical findings
synergist
tightness weakness
Pec Minor
Levator Scapula antagonist
Rhomboids
Serratus Anterior
Downward Traps
rotators of scaps! Upward rotators
of scaps!

13. Clinical/Practical findings
synergist
Glute max
tightness weakness
Hamstrings
Hip Flexors
• Psoas
antagonist
• Iliacus Glute max
• TFL
• Rec fem TrA (+core)
Lumbar Erectors

14. Pronation
Weakness!!

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PRESENTED BY:
Max MARTIN BAppSc (Hons)AEP
max@correctiveexerciseaustralia.com