Beth Linker
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
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We all move.
The spine is incredibly dynamic.
No, it's not just Harvard, but I think they just all repeat it's an echo chamber because no one has bothered to look into it.
No one questions it.
It is such a truism.
That no one questions it except for, I think if you asked any physical therapist trained in the last 20 years, they would tell you that this is not valid.
That this is something that people want to believe in, but it has not been scientifically proven.
It's benign until it's not benign.
It's benign until as people come into a clinic, I'll never forget in the 90s when I was in the clinic, it was the first, I don't know, I don't know if it was the first, but a real resurgence in general population doing Pilates.
Pilates came out of the same eugenics movement, was primarily initially in the early 20th century and mid 20th century for dancers.
people in prime physical shape.
In the 90s, it kind of came out along with Jane Fonda and her aerobics, you know, as Oh, this is a great new fitness thing for people to do.
And as a physical therapist, I was seeing so many people with back pain.
Similarly, yoga can cause people a lot of injuries and back pain.
So it's not always benign.
And if somebody takes it to a great extreme, you know, somebody becomes really self obsessed about their posture, and they don't understand their own body and body alignment, it can create problems.
The other way that I do not think it's benign is I think
going back to what you asked about in a lineup of people, and you see people slouched over, it leads to this irrational bias against people who don't have perfect posture.
Well, you changed your position.
Yeah, yeah, that's good.
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