13: Should We Teach Alignment?

In this episode, Laurel answers a listener’s question of whether or not it’s within a movement teacher’s scope of practice to help people with their posture. Her answer is yes and no depending.

Here’s what else this episode gets into:

• How Laurel formerly identified as an alignment-based teacher and why she no longer does.
• The difference between “default-mode” alignment versus deliberate alignment.
• Alignment less in binary terms of good v. bad and more as a neutral tool for helping to restore variability and influence adaptations toward specific skills.
• Theory-induced blindness and the difficulty of noticing flaws in theories that inform your professional work.
• How our beliefs about posture can produce a nocebic effect.
• How Laurel sees posture and alignment instruction as well within a yoga teacher’s scope of practice, but how she also sees movement teachers stepping outside of their scope of practice in providing instruction. 

Reference links:

SITE WIDE SALE

Paper: Therapists Perceptions of Optimal Sitting and Standing Posture

Paper: To flex or not to flex? Is there a relationship between lumbar spine flexion during lifting and low back pain? A systematic review with meta-analysis

Paper: Posture and time spent using a smartphone are not correlated with neck pain and disability in young adults: a cross-sectional study

Paper: Is neck posture subgroup in late adolescence a risk factor for persistent neck pain in young adults? A prospective study

Paper: Clinical measures of foot posture and ankle joint dorsiflexion do not differ in adults with and without plantar heel pain

Todd Hardgrove: Great New Paper on Targeting the Brain for Treatment of Pain

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