Beth Linker

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154 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 20 Jul

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How do we define good and bad posture?

You know, if you think about the human body, there's a lot of variability in the human body.

a lot of diversity.

And then if you think of the spine, it's the same thing.

There's a lot of diversity.

The spine is very pliable.

But yet we walk around with these words, good and bad.

And it's probably been culturally taught to us what is good and bad.

So good is upright, whatever that means or looks like.

And bad is slumped over or curved to one side or the other.

But that's pretty imprecise.

So what does that even mean to say, to do a study on bad posture?

What would that look like?

I don't even think we've agreed on a universal standard of what good and bad posture is.

Now, in the past, there was this group called the American Posture League.

They were founded in 1914.

They grew out of this eugenics movement of a belief in bodily perfectibility.

And they were also, I should add, they were anti-surgery.

So they wanted to develop posture standards, human posture standards, so that there could be fewer... At that time, back surgery was very new.

So fewer back surgeries.

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