Posturology

Posturology (from English / French posture = posture and gr. Logos = teaching) is an alternative medical concept for the treatment of pain in the musculoskeletal system that focuses on the functions of the tonic posture system with its peripheral receptors and its center in the brain.

Eyes, feet, inner ear, skin, joint and muscle receptors enable the brain to interpret the position of the body in space and to create a balance. They inform and shape the tonic posture system that sets the upright posture. According to posturologists, dysfunctional receptors cause incorrect posture. In the case of postural disorders, there is a false perception of our position in space.

According to the representatives, the first posturological studies should come from the Tübingen doctor Karl Vierordt (son of the well-known physiologist Karl von Vierordt ), who later taught at the Charité in Berlin and founded a posturological school there in 1890. The main representative of this method today is the French orthopedist Bernard Bricot (born 1948). Bricot calls his treatment "global postural reprogramming". He believes that he can reprogram the tonic system and, as it were, put a new update on him. Pain and movement restrictions arise because the statics of your body are disturbed due to malpositions, curvatures and / or relieving postures.

Therapy tries to improve eye convergence. There are also “special insoles according to Bricot”. Scars should be "suppressed"; If necessary, a dental treatment of the chewing apparatus is recommended.

There is no scientific evidence to support the assumption that slight improvements in posture based on posturological tests can relieve back pain or muscle pain.

Individual evidence

↑ Vierordt, Karl Hermann: The walking of people in healthy and sick states. According to self-registration methods. Tübingen, Verlag der H.Laupp'schen Buchhandlung, 1881
↑ http://www.postura-web.de/index.php?main=geschichte
↑ L. Gori, F. Firenzuoli: Posturology. Methodological problems and scientific evidence. In: Recenti progressi in medicina. Volume 96, Number 2, February 2005, pp. 89-91, ISSN 0034-1193 . PMID 15844769 .

[1] Vierordt, Karl Hermann: The walking of people in healthy and sick states. According to self-registration methods. Tübingen, Verlag der H.Laupp'schen Buchhandlung, 1881

[2] ttp://www.postura-web.de/index.php?main=geschichte

[3] L. Gori, F. Firenzuoli: Posturology. Methodological problems and scientific evidence. In: Recenti progressi in medicina. Volume 96, Number 2, February 2005, pp. 89-91, ISSN 0034-1193 . PMID 15844769 .