Changing How You Look at Posture 

What's the point of this video? Which posture is good? What is bad? This isn't clear

Yup, that's why I said you got a little ahead of me!

Exactly. The bite has a direct effect on posture imo. When there is lack of posterior dental height the skull collapses inward and crushes the brain, the neck suffers too. When there is sufficient posterior height in molars the skull expends outwards. I don’t know why no one is talking about that.

I don’t know that “what comes first?” is really the relevant question. In my view, a problem anywhere is a problem everywhere. You cannot, for instance, have severe lateral pelvic tilt without also having a tilt of the ribcage, problems in the limbs, and problems in the breathing mechanism/mouth/head/neck. There is not one problem that is causing all the others. All the problems are connected because the human body is all connected and must compensate to keep from falling over. That said, I do not see how correcting your bite could correct your pelvis. While correcting the bite could surely be beneficial to the pelvis and the rest of the body, it’s not going to fix how you’re using your pelvis. In my view, working with the torso (from the bottom of the pelvis to the top of the ribcage) is primary because it’s the largest and heaviest section of the body, and the all the other parts of the body connect to it. I would expect working with both the pelvis and the ribcage to help with the bite, though I wouldn’t expect it to completely solve the problem. When the torso is lengthened and sturdy, it will support your neck and head in a way that it is not when it’s twisted and shortened. Further work on the neck, head, jaw, tongue would be needed, but getting control of your torso would provide a starting point from which you could begin to take control over the jaw.

Strangely, how we use our body is something that has not been studied well by modern science. It was a field dominated by artists and thinkers throughout the 18th-20th centuries, and many interesting propositions and hypotheses were put forward. Yet scientists are, for the most part, locked into the concepts of the mid to late 20th Century, despite these concepts having very little practical or experimental backing. Similar to what happened in dentistry, whatever is common is deemed to be appropriate, and so crowded teeth are considered normal as is poor posture. People looking for help are guided towards the “average,” but the average person has back pain and rather poor posture. Unfortunately, many people get fed up and assume posture is either too abstract to understand or something that is unfixable. I, of course, welcome discussion and debate. It’s commonly said that the curves of the spine are essential, yet if you look for an explanation of why, you’ll find there is very little even in the way of an argument. Further, everyone agrees too much bend of the lumbar spine, for instance, is a problem. In the model I support, there is a small curve to the lumbar spine (which is visible in x-ray, but not visible under the muscle and fascia) as well as a curve at the upper end. The basis for the model is what will lengthen the fascia of the body. If you pull your lower ribs too far back, for instance, you will round the back, lose height, and lose the support of your thoracolumbar fascia. If you push your lower ribs too far forward (as most people do when standing), you will hollow your back, lose height, and lose the support of your fascia. The model I use (which comes from Jeando Masoero) is based around getting the maximum height through lengthening, so that the fascia is taut and not slack. When the fascia is taut, the muscles have more mechanical advantage (since they get their leverage from the fascia that they’re connected to). Another thing to consider is that the “ape” like quality you seen in the model I use is possibly due in part to the fact that it is sort of inside out compared to the standard model of posture. Our eyes are conditioned to what we’re used to seeing. That’s part of what this video is about. We might not see how bent a person in the standard model is, or that their head is tipped back and their ear is angled, because that’s what we’ve always seen as “right.” Seeing something different naturally seems wrong. I’ve of course spent a lot of time looking at others and myself, specifically from a 90 degree angle, and to me, the standard model looks very drooped and bent. The point being, our mental model and our past experience colors our interpretation of a posture.

Getting the head and the torso in the correct orientation and relative positions will tend to have a normalizing affect on the entire structure of the body from the jaw, to the maxilla, to the ribcage and beyond. The bite can be improved, but I can’t say for certain it would correct your issue with your incisors. In my opinion, it probably could, depending on your age and how seriously you implement your directions to improve your posture.

@@delsartealexandermasoeroyo9147 I have a slight thought that my lip and cheek muscles are involved. I've lately been trying to relax my lips and distance them from the teeth, but it's a long process to see any results

Yes that’s tricky part. If you pull in one direction without an antagonistic pull, you’ll correct yourself in one direction while getting worse at the other end. That’s why I would say the biggest skill to develop in correcting your posture is being able to give yourself multiple directions at once. Two is good, three is better, and a dozen is right on. 😂

@@delsartealexandermasoeroyo9147 yeah, I’ve noticed!! Why does simplicity have to be so complicated!?!

@@TheBrucepix One thought that may or may not be helpful is that sometimes when we are overdoing one direction and losing the other, it’s because we’re trying to really feel the direction we’re overdoing. Then we notice we’re missing the other direction, so we try to feel that one too. If you can put the directions into action without needing to feel that you’re doing them, you may find that you're better able to do the two together. You may not, in the moment, feel like you are, but you can verify with visual feedback.

We do use a direction for lifting what we call the “upper wisdom tooth” spot up away from the lower wisdom teeth, and also forward of the lower wisdom teeth. But I’m not sure that the bite is causing the skull to collapse so much as the skull collapsing causes the bite problems.

Yes, it produces a small but easily visible increase in height (which can be seen by taking video/pictures).

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No he said in one of the videos you can't just work on the neck but the torso and the back

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When you say outwards do you mean forward? Most people are already lifting the front of their chest too much, which coincides with the back of the chest being rotated back and down. You do want to lift the upper end of the ribcage forward and up when you bring the lower end of the ribcage back and up.

Not for the better, I don’t think. From what I’ve seen, hypopressive breathing asks you to cultivate rather poor habits of breathing. I would not recommend expanding the abdomen and the front of the lower ribs, or dropping the pelvic floor while breathing in. In my view, good breathing is a result of good posture. Breathing exercises are typically misguided in that they have very little care for what you’re doing with your posture as you do the exercise. If your pelvis is spilled forward and your ribcage is tilted back the whole time you’re doing the exercise, you will certainly not be improving your posture, and in all reality, you’ll be making your breathing worse.

Essentially every image is portraying poor posture. I reorient the images based around either the skull, ribcage, or pelvis. This makes that one part of the body correctly oriented, which makes it easier to see how the other parts are misoriented.

Exactly. Didn't understand the point of this video