Possibilities with posture

A lady was reffered to me for some foot exercises as she has (had) dropped meta-tarsal heads and collapsed transverse arch in both feet - excrcuiatingly painful, particularly for an artist on her feet all day! 

The referral was from an osteopath who I'm dissappointed to say treated the feet, as that's where the symptoms lay. With one look at her I could tell her spine was misaligned and her pelvis was 'out' with a possible leg length difference. 

Now I use movement as a corrective therapy and rehab tool. Inside an hour, I managed to straighten up the spine, correct the pelvic alignment and balance out the leg length. I didn't treat her feet as they were simply in response to her posture and alignment. 

The feet responded to the treatment, arches back in place, standing tall and free: she had an emotional response which was to share a childhood experience - I suggested in a nostalgic kind of way, that her childhood was possibly the last time her body had experienced this state. 

We did a second session to bullet proof the work and she has remained pain free ever since re-doing the exercises we used on a regular basis. 

Working with motion and the full body is a fascinating way to work, and to see what the subconscious realm of the body is capable of is altogether a different ball game. 

I run courses to teach this work if you are interested www.anatomyinmotion.co.uk 

Our research basically highlights that isolating body parts is a slow and laborious process (good for business!) but success come sin leaps and bounds when working with the body globally and in 3D. 

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