Posture makes Perfect!

Well,back from a weekend of Back/Spine/Posture Lectures with the Pilates Institute & the heads buzzing with information...not feeling so well today though, very tired and feeling a bit sicky..so in bed..got loads to read up on as well...

Posture Types

Swayback (me!! was gobsmacked as never even thought about it...tho 70% of population are..)
Kyphotic
Lordotic
Kyphotic-Lordotic!
Ideal (not many of the population I can tell you!)
Flatback

Its very difficult to tell unless you've been a Physio for years. Ideally take a photo of someone from a head to toe side view, they have to be relaxed and not posing for the camera or holding in bum/tum or you'll get it incorrect..then looking at the photo draw a line from ear to ankle via clavicle and Greater Trochanter, see where the line is...then judge your posture...then theres various tests on whether you've got short Hamstrings, Quads, how your Pelvis is tilted, how Neutral Feels and looks, how important scapular stabilisation is to your Neutral Pelvis, how you stand and how your weight is transferred between your feet. After the course you totally realise how much of a clever clogs Joe Pilates was, way ahead of his time creating exercises to lengthen & strengthen each muscles in the body and to balance it out..amazing really, & to think he started it when Queen Victoria was about too...
Amanda Howards the Physio who took the lectures, based in Brighton and has an Ultrasound diagnostic machine, so I am looking to get her to come to Cornwall and test our TA connection and correct anyone whos not quite sure or pulling in from the wrong place..or overusing your obliques...very very interesting when you see it on screen in front of you! It all goes to help you get a better back and flatter tum quicker!! Thought that would inspire you...