Ever try to screw in a bolt with a hammer? Didn't work well did it?

There's a reason why we have a garage full of different tools - each one is designed for a specific job and works well for that job but not so much for other jobs. A snow shovel works great for clearing your driveway of snow but a rake just won't do the job. That rake, however, is really good at cleaning up leaves off your lawn in the fall and the snow shovel isn't very effective. 

Many people are saying 2016 was a terrible year, maybe the worst ever. I don't think it was...not even close. If 2016 was the worst year ever, it would have to had been worse than:

• 72,000 B.C. - a volcanic super-eruption reduced human population down to less than 10,000
• 1099 - the first Crusade which was the start of the worse human acts ever
• 1348 - the Black Death swept along the Silk Road killing over 1/3 of the people in Europe
• 1520 - smallpox hit the Americas eventually killing 60-90% of the continents' original inhabitants 
• 1914 - WW1 started, death of millions, and widespead economic depression
• 1932 - Holodomor or forced starvation which killed upwards of 5 million
• 1943 - maybe the worst year of WW2 along with race wars in the US

So 2016 might not have been the best year ever, but definitely not the worst. 

Headaches are no fun. Tension headaches can really hurt. Migraine headaches can incapaciate us. But what do headaches have to do with posture?

Headaches can have a lot to do with posture. Headaches, like all pain, are messages from the body. These messages are not usually telling us something is broken, but rather something needs our attention, something is getting overloaded, something is out of alignment, and/or something is missing. ​

Interactive posture analysis of lower body postural alignment.
Anyone who is going through Egoscue University to become a Posture Alignment Specialist (PAS) or Advanced Exercise Therapist (AET), attending The National Posture Institute to become a Certified Posture Specialist (CPS), taking classes at the American Posture Institute to become a Certified Posture Expert (CPE), anyone wanting to become a Certified Posture Exercise Professional (CPEP) from PostureZone.com, or someone attending the Posture Restoration Institute with the goal of being Posture Restoration Certified (PRC) needs to understand posture. Anyone doing postural alignment analysis needs to understand what good, correct, or ideal posture looks like, what common posture imbalances are, and what causes those posture imbalances. 
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Oregon Exercise Therapy is happy to help you in your posture knowledge and application by offering  interactive posture analysis of different areas of the body. 

Look at the person below and evaluate his posture. Put your answers to the following questions in the comments section below this post to start a discussion about this posture and how it is affecting this client. 

What jumps out to you? What is not in good/ideal alignment? 

How would this posture affect his movement, function, and performance? 

What injuries might this person be susceptible to based on his misalignments?

​What do you think caused these misalignments?

What would you have this person do to correct his posture?

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