Posture assessment: wholelottaadultsht

Assessment request and image originals: https://www.reddit.com/r/posturepals/comments/14mhutb/how_fucked_up_am_i/

1Posture assessment

You seem to be healthy and athletic. I would guess you work out either in a gym, do another sport, are a tradie or are otherwise active. 

From our perspective, that is a position of mechanical advantage, you have few problems going on. 

  • Feet are in a wrong position. We would like the outsteps (blue lines) to be parallel, not converging at the back. 
  • Ankles and knees are released.
  • You are shortening and narrowing your back (red curve). 
  • The blue and white markers (ankles, knees, iliacs (anterior superior iliac spine), bottom and top sternum should all be aligned on the green plumb line. 
  • Plumbline (green) has been adjusted to the vertical of the door jamb, on both images. 
  • Yellow line is your sternum. It's leaning back at the top. And so is your ribcage. The ribcage is literaly between the yellow line and the straight bit of the red curve.
  • Your pelvis is also rotated - you are lifting your sacrum up, pushing the iliacs forward and down. 
  • The rotation of the pelvis (clockwise on image) and the rotation of the ribcage (counterclockwise on image) is what is bending your spine into the shape of the red curve. 
  • You will also be shortening your neck (pink curve), but due to shoulderblade, we can't really see it. 
  • You are not fully square to the camera. 
  • From the anterior view, you seem reasonably centred, but if you look closely i think you will find that you are shifting your weight onto your left side / leg. Posterior image would confirm that. 
  • You certainly shift most of your weight to the front of your feet. 
  • You may or may not be in pain / discomfort. It's not possible to tell from the images. 
  • All of that can be corrected.