Oksana Slinko’s Centre for Posture Correction “Akademia Gracia”
His majesty the Spine
The Spine is:
- A hard stem which supports the body, head and waist with the upper extremities;
- A reliable support for all levers of bones and muscles, ensuring different motions of the body and extremities;
- A strong “protective case” for the spinal cord.
The spine is exposed to constant loads, since it participates in almost every motion: during walking, during different moves of head or limbs, which produce dynamic loads on the central axis of the body.
The spine has to adjust to various life conditions: to uncomfortable furniture, car seat, to the work behind the counter or at a factory machine, to heavy bags and bus trips in rush hours.
The spine also works as an amortization system, which, similar to the springs of a vehicle, lightens a vertical load.
The spring function is caused by the elastic intervertebral cartilages and physiological (natural) curvatures of the spine – lordoses and cyphoses. A lordosis is the spine curvature turned forward, and a lordosis – turned backwards. A wave-like form of the spine helps to amortize vertical loads.
Weak muscles and joints cannot sustain vertebral motions, a feeble posture causes higher pressure on the intervertebral disks thus leading to the adolescent osteochondrosis, which differs from the “ordinary” one only by the age of the patients. According to medical statistics data, from 40 to 80 % of all people around the world suffer from osteochondrosis. About every third person over 30 years old complains of pain in the spine or a headache, which is connected with osteochondrosis.
Thus, the two most widely spread problems connected with the spine are: deformed posture and osteochondrosis – these are the two sides of one coin or parts of one chain. Since there is no spine disease which would not influence all other organs and systems of the body, it is possible to say that spine stem is really the “health stem”.
One of the most outstanding Ukrainian scientists M.M. Amosov said that more than 50% of all diseases can be cured with physical exercises.
Oksana Slinko’s “Centre for Posture Correction”, for the first time in Lviv and