Postural Re-education
This is an active physiotherapeutic treatment, based on performing a series of gentle exercises and general stretches together with breathing and proprioception exercises.
The concept of “chain drives with static function” helps us to understand the method of “Global Postural Re-education”, as we have a series of muscles that are continually working against the force of gravity and therefore influence our posture.
GPR is, above all, a proprioceptive inhibition method, working on the antigravitational muscles, which tend to be shortened and rigid. Attention to breathing is fundamental during this work because the inspiratory muscles also fight against gravity and also have a tendency to become rigid and cause shallow breathing.