What Can We Learn by How We Sit and Stand?
Watching how someone's legs and knees change position as they sit and stand can reveal clues about their health, says Louis G. Pack, DPM, Author of The Arthritis Revolution. In this video, he explains why body alignment is so important.
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We tend to see an older person standing with arthritis and assume that's a fixed, rigid deformity,
and there's not much we can do about it. One of the important keys is to see the difference in the patient sitting and standing.
Here's an 80-year-old woman that's already had the knee replaced, but if you sit her down, you can see that that leg straightens up
to a great extent. That means that this is a functional problem not a rigid fix problem. And again, it begins much, much earlier in life.
Here's a patient who's in his 40s, and if you watch this individual stand up and watch him sit,
you'll see how the knee changes positions based upon his function-- how he stands and how he walks.
And here is a girl who's 12 years old, sits perfectly straight, and when she stands,
you can see what happens. So now imagine what this girl will look like when she's 60, 70, or 80 years old and will blame it on age and weight
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