Why We Examine Your Posture

Hey guys, Dr. Carpenter here again
talking about the five components of a
subluxation and the things that we check
in your exam. One of the things that we
pay very close attention to in your exam
is your posture. U posture is kind of
the window to your spine. So it kind we
can kind of look at the outside of you,
get a good idea what the inside looks
like u from your posture and posture
alone. One of the things that’s very
very common with posture is we see way
too much anterior head translation where
the head’s moving too far forward. This
is generally because we’re having a
problem in our thoracic area where we
start to get too much flexion through
that and that creates the other kind of
fourth component of a subluxation. It
creates a lot of problems with the
muscles whether we have tight muscles or
weak muscles. Um that so those are
things that we pay very close attention
to. Um the other from a postural
standpoint, one of the most common
reasons we see patients here in the
office is what’s called pelvic tilt or
we call pelvic sacral and leveling. And
this is where the pelvis gets out of
alignment. But it’s really kind of a
chain effect. Usually we start to have
um some problems in the neck and then
that creates distortion in our thoracic
and lumbars and really affects that
whole kinetic chain and really misalign
the pelvis. So again, just looking at
your posture, we can get a really good
idea of what the inside looks like. And
the posture is really kind of where we
see what muscles are kind of involved
and where we need to kind of take the uh
exam and focus on. And again, if it’s
something that you’re interested in, you
would like to get checked, click on the
special and it’s something that we
certainly can um see if we could help
you with.