“All Shoulders Are Swayback,” – Chris Batten
A theoretical analysis of the association between the sway back posture and shoulder conditions.
In the first part of this analysis we have to establish is to a description of the swayback posture. This is where an individual has a posterior type of posture, that is to say that their body weight is essentially posterior to the normal centre of gravity line. If a person is viewed from the side, the centre of gravity line should be seen to pass from behind the ear through the centre of the shoulder joint, through the spine, the hip joint, centrally through the knee joint to the anterior part of the ankle. Read More…
A Talk By Dr. Martin Littlejohn
An Address Before the Graduating Class of February 1899, by Dr. J. MARTIN LITTLEJOHN, Ph.D., LL.D., F. S. Sc., F. R. S. L. (Lond.), Dean of the American School of Osteopathy.
TONIGHT I appear before you to offer you my own and my colleagues’ congratulations upon this auspicious event in your history. After twenty months of careful study and patient waiting you have reached this climax in your career and now you are ready to go out into the arena of professional life to take part in the healing art.
The Mechanics of Posture and Disease
Classical Osteopathy is unique in its approach to and understanding of disease. No other system of healthcare can recognise with the same depth the relationship between posture and health.
An enormous amount has been written about the subjects of posture and ‘body language’ from the perspectives of the Alexander technique, Yoga, the martial arts and physiotherapy, with some useful and positive ideas. There are also great volumes written about the psychosomatic origin of disease, but there seems little to connect these schools of thought. Read More…