Sammons Preston PosturePals

Innovative adhesive spinal supports, designed by a musculoskeletal physiotherapist, help manage spinal alignment or posture.Learning how to maintain the correct posture helps patients to move, feel and look better.

They work in three ways:

1. RESTRICTION. Helps to prevent poor posture by maintaining the spine at or near its neutral (unloaded) position.

2. RECOGNITION. Aids in drawing the user's attention to the positions or activities that take the spine out of the neutral posture. Being mindful of problem activities, the patient can then modify activities accordingly.

3. RE-EDUCATION. By force of habit, slouching feels normal or comfortable and correct sitting feels abnormal or awkward. To correct this anomaly, the elastic characteristic exerts a gentle correcting force whenever posture starts to slack. The slight pull prompts users to improve posture, using their own muscles to improve strength and endurance. Through repetition and constant correction, a new "healthy" posture will be learned. Posture Pals are not meant to hold the body rigidly in a upright position.They rely on you responding to the corrective feedback.The goal is to maintain good posture while feeling little or no stretch from the device.