Edited by Dr. Gianfranco De Angelis
Posturology, a transversal branch of medicine, involves specialists from different sectors with background very heterogeneous cultural, languages and operating methods. It deals with the study of posture, which represents, as we know, an "integrated association of biomechanical, neurophysiological and neuropsychic phenomena that influence and compensate for continuously.
Posture communicates, expresses our thinking, it is the action of thought.
There are many factors that can cause postural alterations: abnormal positions related to work activity, temporomandibular dysfunctions, oculomotor dysfunctions, morphological alterations, vestibulopathies, psycho-emotional states, etc. are the main culprits of vertebral pain, headaches, tensions chronic muscle and so on.
The individualized type of Global Postural Rehabilitation is part of this context, a rehabilitation method aimed at regaining an interrupted somato-psychic balance: making use of a "careful inspection analysis and accurate tests, it aims to give the system anew" man "those characteristics of fluidity, harmony and well-being that are proper to him. This takes place through the" learning of postures designed to rebalance the imbalances memorized by the complex "fascia" or through the re-elaboration of any traumas of an emotional nature, somatized in the form of contractures chronic muscle.
Fascial osteopathy, cranio-sacral therapy, vertebral manipulations, somato-emotional release, bioenergetic analysis, Mèzières re-education, connective massage therapy, etc., are some examples of valid operative tools that can be used in individualized Global Postural Re-education.
