It is taken for granted that the non-verbal information we acquire from a person's body posture and position affects our perception of others. However, to date human postures have never been described on an empirical level. This study is the first approach to tackle the unexplored topic of human postures. We combined two approaches: traditional behavior observation and modern anthropometric ana...

BACKGROUND The authors assumed that advanced lumbar disk disease contributes to disorders of body balance and asymmetry of foot pressure force on the ground. Surgery improves biomechanical relations in the lumbar spine, thus decreasing the disturbance of postural balance and foot load. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study was carried out among 40 patients treated in Military Clinical Hospital in Wr...

Temporomandibular disorders (TMD) are the major disorders of the cranio-cervicomandibular system. They usually result in alterations of human body posture. Temporomandibular joint disorders (TMD) lead to adaptations in certain body structures that minimizes patient’s pain and also reconfigures musculoskeletal stress zones. These adaptations if not corrected may cause deviations in normal body p...

When pantomiming gestures to verbal command, the overall production of body-part-as-object (BPO) errors is differentially affected by age and educational level in normal subjects. The higher overall frequency of BPO with age may be related to difficulties in the inhibition of the automatic activation of tool emblems (i.e., the BPO) instead of the appropriate hand posture to hold the tool. Howev...

BACKGROUND Involutional changes to the body in elderly patients affect the shape of the spine and the activity of postural muscles. The purpose of this study was to assess the influence of age-related changes in spinal curvature on postural balance in elderly women. METHODS The study population consisted of 90 women, with a mean age of 70 ± 8.01 years. Static balance assessments were conducte...

Few studies quantify spinal posture behaviour at both the thoracolumbar and lumbar spinal regions. This study compared spontaneous spinal posture in 50 asymptomatic participants (21 males) during three conditions: 10-min computer task in sitting (participants naïve to the measure), during their perceived 'correct' sitting posture, and standing. Three-dimensional optical tracking quantified surf...

Background Postural alignments, secondary curves of spine and tendency to unequal body weight distribution are the compensatory mechanisms in scoliosis, eventually leading to disturbances in the regulation of body posture. The pathological pattern of incorrect posture, evokes a vicious circle of causes and effects, which probably includes alterations in body weight distribution to both feet [1-4].

The aim of this work was to analyse possible influence of passive sacroiliac joint mobilisation on body posture changes in the sagittal plane. Investigations embraced 900 children and young people aged 5–19 with symptoms of functional asymmetry of the pelvis. One evaluated the quality of body posture twice – alternately in habitual standing and during autoelongation in starting examination – an...