What is Posture Alignment Therapy?
Postural Alignment Therapy (PAT) is a long term and pain free restoration of physical health and wellness. PAT is based on the premise that the human body has a fundamental blueprint design. Taken from Pain Free For Women by Pete Egoscue. This design is a neutral posture of form and function which includes anatomical, physiological and biomechanical principals of motion. When the body deviates from this blueprint for any reason (past trauma, injury, pregnancy, weight gain/loss, activity or lack of) muscular compensation begins to occur. If this compensation (muscles, bones and joints performing work they are not designed to do) continues, a deviation of body’s blueprint of form and function occurs. This is the framework of the symptomatic pain cycle. Postural deviation at one or more weight bearing load joints can cause muscle, bone and joint compensation both directly at the site, and throughout the entire body. Normal form and function becomes impaired resulting in undue stress and d
