Exceptional Human Design
Human beings are extraordinarily complex functional organisms with a high level of intelligence. The human body is made up of many complex systems working together in synchronicity to keep the person within their normal range of homeostatic function.
These auto-regulating systems include the neurologic system, respiratory system, digestive system, circulatory system, lymphatic system, and many more to produce life-sustaining actions.
Each system works together allowing the body to move, breath, digest food, produce energy, have clear thoughts, stay upright, and adapt to the world in which we live. In addition to these life-sustaining systems of the body is the Posture System.
The Posture System is as equally complex as the other physiologic systems of the body. The purpose of the Posture System is to keep the body upright and erect against the ever-present force of gravity; stabilizing the core of the body while the limbs perform coordinated movements. The Posture System integrates sensorimotor feedback from the brain to the body to adapt, balance, and stay upright in response to an ever-changing environment.
Anatomy of the Posture System
Anatomically, the Posture System of the body is integrated system composed of osseous components, postural muscles, and neuroanatomical tissues such as the cerebellum, the reticulospinal spinal tracts, the vestibular system, and the eye muscles associated with vision.
Physiology of the Posture System
Physiologically, the Posture System combines certain components of the neuromusculoskeletal system. The structure and function of the body are inter-related at all levels. Human function is an interrelationship between neural, skeletal, and muscular function for postural control.
Closed Loop System
The Posture System, like all other systems of the body is a closed loop system. Consider the Control Theory of Closed Loop Systems. The Control Theory explains that dynamic physiologic systems behave based upon their inputs, and they respond via feedback.
Your unique postural presentation is due to the sensory inputs received from your environment, particularly the repetitive inputs. These inputs are received and processed, and a response is produced. The response is sent to the appropriate anatomy via feedback, feeding the loop of adaptation.
The closed loop represents your posture in equilibrium. In postural equilibrium stabilization and orientation is happening in perfect synchronicity to hold the body upright.
The Control Theory of Closed Loop Systems is an innate function of protection to maintain equilibrium within the body. This feedback-adaptation pattern is constant and continual among the inter-related components of the Posture System.
