• Sexual Selection: A Mechanism for Human Upright Posture? (behavior.net)
  • Sexual selection, inter- and intra-, was possibly a factor in the evolution of bipedalism, an upright posture, and perhaps the refinement of modern skull characteristics. (behavior.net)
  • however, the selective advantages of an upright posture are still unclear. (behavior.net)
  • For example, suppose that a person is lying in the upright posture, and we found the body parts belonging to the tier-1 as shown in Figure 1 . (hindawi.com)
  • Their confident, upright posture gave them more confidence in their own thoughts, whether they were positive or negative," Petty said. (scienceblog.com)
  • The end result of this was that when students wrote positive thoughts about themselves, they rated themselves more highly when in the upright than the slouched posture because the upright posture led to confidence in the positive thoughts. (scienceblog.com)
  • However, when students wrote negative thoughts about themselves, they rated themselves more negatively in the upright than the slouched posture because the upright posture led to more confidence in their negative thoughts. (scienceblog.com)
  • We talk to Ally Reynolds from Your Perfect Posture about home office ergonomics and children's ergonomics. (tunein.com)
  • Developing a perfect posture habit leads to greater confidence, health, and attractiveness. (lifehack.org)
  • In order to solve this, we'll need to make up our own cues to spark the perfect posture habit. (lifehack.org)
  • Walk to the bathroom and back with perfect posture. (lifehack.org)
  • Cheat Sheet: Two steps for perfect posture (and better contact! (golf.com)
  • Perfect posture is the first step to creating safe, efficient and functional movement within your golf swing. (golf.com)
  • The most helpful exercises for improving posture affect the core - the back, buttocks, and abdomen. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • You can improve your posture by practicing some imagery and a few easy exercises. (harvard.edu)
  • After doing the daily exercises needed to repair years of slumping, hopefully you'll realize the benefits of good posture, including more energy, better circulation, and less pain. (lifehacker.com)
  • Beyond these preliminary movements and postures there are the 108 specific gestures in Yang style Chi and there are other short and long Tai Chi forms. (healthy.net)
  • The point of this study is that, it can give us some insight about the relation of male and female human animals, thru their postures and gestures when together. (xahlee.org)
  • The anjaneya-asana combines several postures and mudras (gestures) in a fluid, evolving flow that combines motion, stretching and holds. (santosha.com)
  • The truly new in this NPR is that a good portion of it has very little to do with the U.S. nuclear posture and more to do with policies intended to curtail the spread of nuclear weapons to others. (fas.org)
  • Having good posture is very important. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Prolonged standing can also be stressful to the low back even with good posture. (post-polio.org)
  • Good posture not only protects you against back pain, it also improves your overall health and appearance. (harvard.edu)
  • If your posture is good, the bones of the spine - the vertebrae - are correctly aligned (see illustration). (harvard.edu)
  • Good posture means keeping the cervical, thoracic, and lumbar curves in balance and aligned, with weight distributed evenly over the feet. (harvard.edu)
  • We take a look at your what good posture really means, and if your chair is really up to the job of keeping you in tip-top shape. (tunein.com)
  • Good posture is tricky though…it doesn't have the obvious cue-routine-reward relationship that sleeping in does. (lifehack.org)
  • You want good posture, so the routine is fixing your posture. (lifehack.org)
  • It can help to look in a mirror while you do this a few times to learn how good postures feels. (lifehack.org)
  • So how do we reward ourselves for good posture? (lifehack.org)
  • Before anyone rolls their eyes at yet another posture tip, or runs to find examples of great players with "bad" posture, let me say this: Good posture isn't a requirement for good golf. (golf.com)
  • It makes nothing but common sense to create good posture as early as possible. (golf.com)
  • Previous Next 1 of 9 Why is good posture important? (mayoclinic.org)
  • Good posture can also help prevent muscle strain, overuse disorders, and back and muscular pain. (mayoclinic.org)
  • Maintaining good posture. (mayoclinic.org)
  • COLUMBUS, Ohio - Sitting up straight in your chair isn't just good for your posture - it also gives you more confidence in your own thoughts, according to a new study. (scienceblog.com)
  • They provide oral health professionals with guidance on how to strike a balance between maintaining a good posture and providing efficient treatment. (fdiworldental.org)
  • Abnormal posturing of any kind usually occurs with a reduced level of alertness. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Anyone who has an abnormal posture should be examined right away by a health care provider. (medlineplus.gov)
  • What other symptoms came before or with the abnormal posturing? (medlineplus.gov)
  • The long-term impact of bad posture would be the deformation of the spinal cord from its normal "S" shape to an abnormal "C" shape. (kstatecollegian.com)
  • According to Sherwood, the common effects of bad posture include muscle fatigue, spine misalignment, stress on internal organs and pain on the skeletal structure. (kstatecollegian.com)
  • Poor posture may be responsible for other conditions, as well. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Poor posture can be habitual, and it may also stem from poor muscle tone and low levels of strength and flexibility. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Poor posture and limited mobility increase the likelihood of degenerative arthritis in later years. (post-polio.org)
  • Poor posture, on the other hand, promotes back pain and can affect the position and function of your abdominal organs, inhibit breathing and oxygen intake, and cause headaches. (harvard.edu)
  • Some of the classic signs of poor posture are a potbelly, rounded shoulders, and a jutted-out neck and chin (known as a forward head position). (harvard.edu)
  • According to Sherwood, poor posture can result in spinal discs being compressed out of alignment and exerting pressure on the spine, causing pain and restricting movement in certain limbs. (kstatecollegian.com)
  • Poor posture can also cause pain in other parts of the body, and muscle stress may also lead to tension headaches. (kstatecollegian.com)
  • A posture for the advanced practitioners of the yoga, this asana improves agility and flexibility as well as benefits the spine. (yogawiz.com)
  • Yoga, the Sanskrit word for 'union', is a practice that uses posture and breathing techniques to induce relaxation and improve strength, and its health benefits may surpass those of any other activity. (yogawiz.com)
  • People suffering from osteoarthritis or rheumatoid arthritis will see a noticeable improvement in their stiffness, pain, and other arthritic symptoms by practicing yoga poses and postures. (yogawiz.com)
  • The gentler forms of yoga lower your blood pressure because the asanas (yoga poses, postures, and yoga positions ) keep blood flowing evenly throughout your body while you focus on your breathing. (yogawiz.com)
  • How can Yoga help your posture? (tunein.com)
  • We talk to Libby Stevenson, a yoga pro and wellbeing specialist for all stages of womanhood, about how yoga can help your posture and help you feel better too! (tunein.com)
  • We talk to Posture Ellie, who is a Postural Alignment Therapist trained in The Egoscue Method (and a 200hr Yoga Teacher). (tunein.com)
  • Meditative postures or meditation seats are the body positions or asanas, usually sitting but also sometimes standing or reclining, used to facilitate meditation. (wikipedia.org)
  • Perfect your posture to increase your focus and strengthen your core. (entrepreneur.com)
  • NATO Defence Ministers took steps to strengthen the Alliance defence and deterrence posture on Wednesday (10 February 2016). (nato.int)
  • Some of the movements and posture which seem to have the least content or action are actually the most profound methods for generating Qi, circulating Qi and enhancing one's own awareness of Qi. (healthy.net)
  • One's posture is the first indication of body language. (kstatecollegian.com)
  • Improving one's posture is not very hard, said Devaney. (kstatecollegian.com)
  • Being aware of one's posture at all times, keeping one's core engaged at all times and putting in a conscious effort," said Devaney. (kstatecollegian.com)
  • Maureen Kerrigan, microbiologist at the School of Veterinary Medicine, said the same backpack that makes the shoulders slouch can also help fix one's posture. (kstatecollegian.com)
  • The Nuclear Posture Review enshrines nuclear disarmament as a real goal for U.S. nuclear weapons policy for the first time. (fas.org)
  • For the first time since the end of the Cold War, the United States has published a Nuclear Posture Review report. (fas.org)
  • Granted, it's a sanitized version, but the Obama administration's Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) contains strong language that commits the United States to work for nonproliferation. (fas.org)
  • By incorporating a broader range of policy issues in setting the nuclear posture, the review represents a break with the Bush administration's NPR, which was more focused on military capabilities. (fas.org)
  • As such, the new NPR is more a nuclear policy review than a nuclear posture review. (fas.org)
  • At the same time, the new NPR comes across as a surprisingly cautious document that recommends curtailing the U.S. nuclear posture further in the future but for now preserves many of the key nuclear weapons force structure and policy elements of the previous administration. (fas.org)
  • In the end, however, the NPR illustrates that proliferation is a side-chapter for the sizing and characteristics of the U.S. nuclear posture, which continues to be dominated by planning against Russia and China. (fas.org)
  • This paper looks freshly at how to evaluate future nuclear forces and postures. (rand.org)
  • Since the end of the Cold War, there have been four Nuclear Posture Reviews (NPRs). (thebulletin.org)
  • They were told the arts study was examining factors contributing to people's acting abilities, in this case, the ability to maintain a specific posture while engaging in other activities. (scienceblog.com)
  • That suggests people's thoughts are influenced by their posture, even though they don't realize that is what's happening. (scienceblog.com)
  • How Can an Egoscue and Ergonomics Expert Help Your Posture? (tunein.com)
  • We talk to Zeena Dhalla, an Egoscue and Ergonomics expert, about how ergonomics and posture improvements can help you feel better and work better too! (tunein.com)
  • How can Ergonomics Help Posture? (tunein.com)
  • We talk to Niamh Pentony from Boyne Ergonomics about posture and ergonomics, hybrid working and working from home. (tunein.com)
  • Let's find out, how can ergonomics help posture? (tunein.com)
  • on the other side, a restful posture like Savasana (Corpse Pose) might be comfortable but would more likely lead to sleep than meditation. (wikipedia.org)
  • Come back to the vajara-asana (thunderbolt pose) then reverse the posture by alternating legs. (santosha.com)
  • Proper posture also maintains the curves in the spine. (post-polio.org)
  • If you can easily move your hands forward and backward more than an inch or two, you may need to adjust your posture to restore the spine's normal curves. (harvard.edu)
  • A determination of 3 basic lying postures and the corresponding distribution curves. (hindawi.com)
  • In China there are literally thousands of movements and postures with variations depending on whether they originate in northern or southern China, in specific families, specific monastic traditions or in one of many lineages of a simplified, preliminary approach that is easy to learn and use to support practitioners toward better health. (healthy.net)
  • Use these movements and postures as a seed to grow your own passion and devotion to your personal practice. (healthy.net)
  • OBJECTIVES: To investigate exposure-response relationships between measured movements and postures of the wrist and the incidence of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS), and any modifications by sex. (lu.se)
  • These include Padmasana (full lotus), Ardha Padmasana (half lotus), Siddhasana or Muktasana (also called Burmese posture, sitting with the knees on the ground and the feet tucked in close to the body), and Sukhasana (any easy cross-legged position). (wikipedia.org)
  • Is the body posturing always the same? (medlineplus.gov)
  • Natural News) Recurring or chronic pain in the back, jaw, and neck usually comes from adopting a crooked posture that favors one side of the body. (naturalnews.com)
  • Then, remove the background, color, faces, hair, and body shapes, so it is simply a skeletal outline of 2 human bodies, showing their posture and relative position to each other. (xahlee.org)
  • Is the learning process strictly relying on repeated word-object associations, or do things like spatial location and body posture have an impact as well? (europa.eu)
  • Posture is the positioning of the body when a person is sitting, standing, lying down, or performing different tasks. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • She works with her clients (of all ages and with all sorts of conditions) to improve their posture and restore a greater range of movement through each joint in the body. (tunein.com)
  • https://acatoday.org/content/posture-power-how-to-correct-your-body-alignment. (mayoclinic.org)
  • In some typical lying postures, these body parts maintain a straight line. (hindawi.com)
  • There are many postures in bed: lying on either side, with the body straight or bent/curled forward or backward. (hindawi.com)
  • The key idea of the method to be proposed here is to determine the lying posture based on the upper body. (hindawi.com)
  • In other words, it is advantageous to discriminate based on the upper body when recognizing the lying postures using the pressures sensed. (hindawi.com)
  • A process of discriminating lying posture based on the body parts belonging to the tier-1. (hindawi.com)
  • The results show how our body posture can affect not only what others think about us, but also how we think about ourselves, said Richard Petty, co-author of the study and professor of psychology at Ohio State University. (scienceblog.com)
  • According to Chris Sherwood on livestrong.com, "Posture is the way you physically carry or hold your body. (kstatecollegian.com)
  • These conditions can be met by a variety of postures with or without support, whether a cross-legged posture such as Muktasana, a kneeling posture, or sitting on a chair with the back vertical and the feet on the ground. (wikipedia.org)
  • Lorna was so dismayed by the state of teacher's posture that she developed her own range of products to help, including the popular Jolly Back chair. (tunein.com)
  • A recent study of college-aged males found that an exercise program for posture correction relieved shoulder pain, mid back pain, and low back pain ( 3 ). (healthline.com)
  • e.g. thru online personal photo sites such as flikr) This way, the result gives us a definitive characteristics of postures of sexes and their posture proximity relationship. (xahlee.org)
  • According to Harvard Health , researchers are investigating possible connections between bad posture and sleep disturbances, fatigue , and mood disorders. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Researchers have linked bad posture with some uncomfortable health conditions and a high risk of injury, especially during exercise. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • In selecting a vertically orientated cervical column in many vertebrates, evolution has provided them with mechanical advantages in relation to eye and head movement coordination, head posture, balance and stability. (positivehealth.com)
  • HeadsUp is an app that detects head position by AirPods and helps to keep sitting posture. (apple.com)
  • For the biophotogrammetric analysis, photography were analyzed in right profile being two angles related to the head forward posture (A1 and A2) and one related to flexion-extension head position (FE). (bvsalud.org)
  • The biophotogrammetric analysis can be preferably chosen for assessing the head posture. (bvsalud.org)
  • Occlusal registrations were performed with the T-Scan III system in a normal, neutral head posture (NHP), as well as in the TNP. (bvsalud.org)
  • The comparison of the characters' growth into manhood and womanhood showcases Tom Tulliver's increasing compliance with correct masculine posture and his sister Maggie's persistent tomboyism in adulthood. (lu.se)
  • The outcomes were not related to non-neutral postures or exposure duration. (lu.se)
  • Natural News) Bad posture leads to a plethora of major health problems. (naturalnews.com)
  • If you're not sure if your posture needs fixing or are sure and want some help, this guide from Men's Health is for you. (lifehacker.com)
  • In this paper, we propose a lying posture discrimination algorithm to monitor the behavior pattern of a person lying in bed. (hindawi.com)
  • The purpose of this study is to analyze sleep behavior pattern by monitoring the posture of a person lying in bed in real time. (hindawi.com)
  • Experimental results show that there is a correlation between pressure distribution and lying posture. (hindawi.com)
  • To investigate the correlation between the craniocervical posture measurements obtained by the biophotogrammetric and cephalometric analysis. (bvsalud.org)
  • Recent studies have sought to investigate the correlation between measurements of posture, obtained by biophotogrammetry and by visual analysis 3,5 . (bvsalud.org)
  • Lindsay is an Alexander Technique teacher who specifically helps office and desk workers overcome the pain caused by bad posture. (tunein.com)
  • This type of posturing usually means there has been severe damage to the brain. (medlineplus.gov)
  • This means that an ISE running in Inline Posture Enforcement mode (iPEP) is needed to dynamically change the network access policy of an end device. (cisco.com)
  • In presenting posture as the most important aspect of life, Schumacher examines how the terms of posture encompass all the major disciplines and provide a means for resolving human dilemmas through a humanistically oriented philosophy of inquiry. (sunypress.edu)
  • Speculations about our posture include its allowing us to detect prey or predators further away, to move with greater agility, carry tools and children, (6) or to survive intermittent floods. (behavior.net)