The Chasm between Posture &
Chiropractic Education and Treatment (cont.)

What Should We Do about Bad Posture? (cont.) What is our standard chiropractic approach for addressing poor posture? Unfortunately, there isn't one that is universally taught in our chiropractic educational institutions. For the most part, we do what grandmothers do, i.e., admonish patients to "stand up straight." Such awareness training is an important first step, but an inadequate approach by itself.

Can standard diversified adjusting, Activator adjusting, SOT adjusting, or similar adjustments correct longstanding postural imbalances? Unfortunately, there is little evidence to suggest that adjustments of any kind will substantially influence a patient's postural alignment. This leaves the chiropractic profession between the proverbial rock and a hard place. We know posture is an important factor in health, but we have no real effective tools in our standard chiropractic arsenal to address the problem.

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