A postural assessment can also be known as a postural analysis or alignment assessment, this is an observational assessment that is carried out as the first step of a full physical assessment. Postural assessment is used to analyse your static posture and alignment. Performing a postural assessment allows you to look at your body’s alignment, assess how the body is moving and functioning, look at how the muscles and joints are working together or being resisted in any way. This means looking for any abnormalities and/or imbalances that may be present. This will show how you are being affected through your body movements and functions.

Do you feel pain in your joints or have tight muscles?

Do you feel yourself getting stiff in the neck, shoulders, or back?

Do you feel yourself slouching in a chair at the desk or on the sofa?

Is your walking gait free flowing?

Are you struggling with your squat and deadlift technique, due to muscle imbalances?

As the general public is now sit at desks for longer, on mobile phones, doing repetitive work movements, lifting incorrectly at the gym, we all get abnormalities or imbalances within our body’s. If we leave the problem for long enough the body adapts to the new position and this is where muscles start to become tight and over stretched. When this happens your movement, pattern changes and you may lose some ability to do everyday activities or exercises like a squat.

There are various ways of helping the body to remember what is correct posture alignment for your body. Through training programmes, stretching, myofascial release, sports massage etc. After the assessment we use the findings that will enable us to provide you with a comprehensive service to aid in giving you as much movement, function and alignment your body needs. Also giving you the knowledge on how to continue to keep your true body’s posture and alignment.