Whatever your sports goals, professional or amateur, Posturology can help you!
To be on good terms with gravity, once the feet touch the ground, the spine should automatically align so that the eyes look at the horizon.
Very often sports coaches try to finetune the practice and find what brings maximum performance and minimum injuries and quite naturally, while searching for precision, they discover Posturology.
Postural assessment, the ideal complement for athletes
A postural assessment allows the coach to have a clearer idea of the structure of his athlete and to direct him towards personalized training, which makes coaching more adapted and fun.
With the Barré’s vertical test, the coach can simply visualize the alignments of the body as well as the athlete’s self-correction potential. This test guides him towards postural exercises specific to everyone that target precise muscle chains.
Neurosensory sensors and proprioception
Then by focusing on each body sensor, we can test the ability of proprioception and awaken the intrinsic muscles with, for example, specific massages or stretching.
The new generation podoscope reveals the footprints, the left/right symmetry and much more information on the foot support. In bodyweight dynamics, a squat or deadlift indirectly shows the foot muscles strength through their collapsing state. Dr. Bourdiol’s posturology poster perfectly illustrates these different cases.
It is no coincidence that today, right before the precious ‘leg day‘, we see more and more athletes rolling their feet on spiked balls or grabbing towels with their toes!
The foam platform is coaches’ favorite equipment, as it’s the most versatile tool. On the one hand, it can frankly accentuate postural imbalances and on the other, it can test all cephalic sensors (eyes, jaw, inner ear) to identify which one needs to be worked on first. In addition, it is very useful as a training material for proprioceptive exercises.
For the most demanding ones, the Maddox test provides new postural training paths for one of the most fundamental sensors: the eyes.
We often come across high-level athletes who “warm up” the small muscles of the eyes before starting their discipline and this for optimal results.
Whichever the specialty of the coach or the level of the athlete might be, POSTUROKiT finally gives the possibility, with different kits, to put together all Posturology tests which allows a precise audit to bring any athlete to the maximum of their potential!
