User:Paoloplatania/postural disorder

Postural disorder is a sub class of posture, it is defined by the differences in the postural model of an individual with an ongoing pathology against the postural model of the same individual in healthy condition or, with more approximation, against the average postural model of healthy individuals of the same class.

Although posture consists of reflexive (involuntary) as well as voluntary motor tasks, postural disorder concerns the disorders of the involuntary motor component only, as disorders of the voluntary motor component are more related to behavioural disorders and are approached differently.

development

Postural disorder must NOT be approached as a cause NOR as a symptom, but as a mediator between the root cause and the symptoms, this is why therapies directly addresset at the visible postural deviations are ineffective or temporary, and, however, never resolutive.

The harmfulness of postural disorder is owed to muscle imbalances, or, in other words, to muscle spread hypertonicities (contractures) and inhibitions. This condition is chronic and leaves patients unaware until it induces enough joint and soft tissue degeneration and sufferance to provoke symptoms.

Postural disorder develops according to the following process:

• postural disorder etiology: the root threat
• postural disorder pathomechanics: the way the Central Nervous System (CNS) detects the threat
• postural disorder mechanics: the defensive motor reaction set up by CNS
• postural disorder symptoms: the anatomy degeneration induced by postural disorder

There is poor if any reliable literature around the Postural disorder, the commonly observed disorders, today, are named after the alleged diagnosis of the underlying pathology affecting posture or the way it displays itself and usually result in combined naming such as as for example stomatognatic postural disorder or head forwarding postural disorder.

In the existing bibliography plenty of alleged root causes are treated (TMJ, ocular, plantar, scar tissue.....), although there is evidence of posture impacts after the specific treatments, none the of treatments has proven to permanently improve or reverse the disorder. This means that those alleged root causes are instead mediators, and that higher level root cause, that none of those studies has been able to observe, is still outstanding.

The highest level root cause so far alleged in literature is the one described in Posture, etiology of a syndrome, not only this hypothesis is unique within the existing bibliography and is capable of theorically explaining all the observations, but any attempted interaction with the root cause has yielded reproducible cause/effect correlations with the underlying disorder. Sadly, given the complexity of the lesion location, a resolutive approach may not be attempted without further research and resources.

references

• Published: Bibliography
• Ahead of peer review: Posture, etiology of a syndrome