“Sit up straight!” Anyone who works in an office has heard it many times. The MozgásKlinika approach is more nuanced: posture cannot simply be called good or bad. This article sums up how MozgásKlinika Retek utca, in Budapest’s 2nd district, thinks about it.
What is posture, really?
In the MozgásKlinika approach posture is:
- dynamic, so it changes all the time;
- a continuously regulated function, not a pose to be held;
- dependent on load;
- linked to both nervous system and musculoskeletal processes.
It follows that there is no single “correct” way of sitting that you should hold for eight hours.
Then what can influence the complaints?
Staying in the same loading position for a long time, reduced variety of movement and individual load tolerance, together. So the question is not exactly how you sit at a given moment. It is how long you stay in the same position, how varied your movement is during the day, and how much load your body can take.
Pain also depends on many factors. The same neck or lower back complaint can appear alongside different functional problems, which is why it is worth having it examined.
What can a physiotherapist do?
The clinic’s physiotherapists list posture-improving physiotherapy and the treatment of posture changes among their areas of interest. The work starts with a first assessment, which includes a posture analysis. According to the clinic, the exercises of physiotherapy strengthen the postural muscles, and manual techniques help to improve movement patterns.
The goal follows the logic of the MozgásPiramis®: proper muscle activation, movement control, strength and stability, in other words greater load tolerance. The focus is on helping your body cope better with everyday load, not on learning one pose.
Will you get home exercises?
Home exercises may be part of your treatment plan if your physiotherapist has chosen them, taught them and checks them. For this reason you will not find a general exercise list in this article either: it would not replace an examination.
When is it worth booking?
When a complaint keeps coming back, lasts a long time or gets in the way of work and movement. Neck complaints have their own article, and manual therapy is described on its own page.
