What is Postural Alignment Corrective Exercise?

Do you suffer with chronic pain?

What does your posture say about you?

The Egoscue Method of Postural Alignment Corrective Exercise Can Help You!
"The sight of pain is rarely the site of the problem"
Pete Egoscue

The Egoscue Method of Postural Alignment Corrective Exercise is based on the principal that the body works as a unit, not as individual parts. Your body may have a dysfunction in one area which it compensates for in another area of the body. Thus, the pain you may experience in one area of your body may actually be originating in an entirely different area. For example, the pain you may feel in your right shoulder may be caused by a rotated left hip. Rather than treat pain for short-term relief, Postural Alignment Corrective Exercise seeks to indentify and treat the cause of the pain to restore full, pain-free functionality.

Ideally, we would all have perfect posture. All of our joints would be aligned as shown below:

Knees would be aligned over ankle joints, hips over the knee joints and shoulders over the hips.

But most of us don't have perfect postural alignment. We have a rotated shoulder, elevated hip, everted feet, forward lean or one or more of many other postural misalignments. As a result we suffer from aching joints, painful muscles, fatigue, decreased range of motion and many more ailments.

The Egoscue Method of Postural Alignment Corrective Exercise works by identifying the areas of postural dysfunction and then targeting the dysfunction by doing Egoscue Exercises ("Ecises"). The correct and consistent use of Ecises eliminates the pain that results from postural compensations.