Posture Ellie

Postural Alignment Therapy relieves chronic musculoskeletal pain by bringing wonky bodies back into correct musculoskeletal alignment. Humans have a set, specific functional design - load joints should be parallel and symmetric from the horizontal and vertical view. Rarely nowadays do people live the lives they are designed for (moving gently all day, everyday in a wide variety of ways) and therefore, our musculoskeletal system does not receive the movement it needs to maintain our muscles at the correct length and strength. Muscles at the correct length and strength holds our joints in the correct place. Joints start to slip out of place when muscles lose their strength/become too tight and this leads to unnatural, uneven wear and tear into our bones, tendons, cartilage, joints etc. This causes pain. It is NOT normal to feel pain and it shouldn’t be an accepted part of aging. People should not push through pain but equally they should not stop moving all together, they simply need to move their body in a different way. Postural Alignment Therapy teaches people how to move their body out of pain by waking up the muscles that aren’t functioning correctly. Postural Alignment Therapy identifies the root causes of pain, does not focus on the symptomatic areas and this helps people in the long term. This is done through a series of gentle, ‘hands off’, bespoke exercises (like Pilates) which work to fire up muscles which have gone to sleep and quieten those which work too hard through compensatory movements. When the correct length/tension relationship between muscles is re-established, balance is restored, joints fall back into place and pain is relieved. It really is that simple! Please contact me if you have any questions about PAT and the conditions it can hope to treat. You would be amazed at how many conditions are caused by some muscles not working properly and bringing other parts out of kilt.