Digital Postural Assessment

ActionPotential is a Certified Biotonix Evaluation Center.

To provide the most comprehensive postural information and strategies for clients, ActionPotential provides BioPrint™ postural analysis and corrective reports.

Rolfing is extremely good at lengthening the chronically shortened connective tissue that keeps pulling you into familiar, if dysfunctional, postural patterns. Incorporating Rolfing to change posture can be better than just stretching because a Rolfer can affect very specific areas of anatomy. Without appropriate instruction, individuals often try to stretch tight areas using well-worn movement patterns. The result? They end up lengthening tissue that is already long and strengthening structures that are already strong — taking them further into their existing pattern.

So if we really want to overcome postural patterns, specificity is key. We don't want to lengthen everything, just the stuff that's pulling you out of alignment. Correspondingly, we want to target weak postural muscles and get them working the way they're supposed to. This is where BioPrint comes in.

What’s a BioPrint?
BioPrint is the most advanced digital technology being used for detecting postural dysfunction and designing exercise programs to correct alignment. Check out the Biotonix website at www.biotonix.com.

Data collection is quick and non-invasive. We place light-reflective anatomical markers on specific body landmarks and take four pictures from different perspectives. That’s it.

The BioPrint report calculates joint compression forces, deviations from vertical and horizontal alignment, and center of gravity. The report presents these results, identifies causal muscle patterns, and — if you choose — creates a 10-week stretching and strengthening program designed to improve your posture.

BioPrint Helps You:
Detect structural problems that may have developed over time
Identify exactly how your body is out of alignment
Pinpoint specific muscles that have been adversely affected
Access a personalized exercise program to improve alignment
Monitor improvement over time by comparing follow-up reports.

Click here to access the American Medical Review Video with Morley Safer presenting BioPrint Structural Assessment Technology.

CURRENT RESEARCH

Sports Medicine & Performance Implications of Alignment

• Biotonix is currently engaged in a collaborative project at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center to explore the potential of the BioPrint to address injury and performance related to issues of concern to professional golfers.
• Additional collaborative work is underway at Stanford University to further explore the application of the BioPrint to collegiate and other professional sports.

System Reliability & Reliability

• A collaborative study with McGill University and Universite de Montreal was completed to test the within and between examiner reliability of the placement of the anatomical markers of Biotonix. The accuracy of the angular and distance measures provided by the system was also compared to a highly sensitive and well-established kinematic measurement system, the VICON. The results of this study indicated high reliability within and between examiners and high accuracy. An abstract of this work was presented at the IV Word Congress of Biomechanics conference in Calgary (in collaboration with the American and Canadian Biomechanics Societies) and an article based on this work was submitted to the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.

Lower Back Pain & Biotonix Exercise Efficacy

• Biotonix exercise regimes were recently evaluated and refined by Dr. Cheryl Hubley-Kozey of the School of Physical Therapy of Dahlhousie University. Dr. Hubley-Kozey collaborated with Biotonix on an extensive review and synthesis of the effectiveness of exercise treatments for lower back pain. This lead to a presentation and published abstract at the 4th Interdisciplinary World Congress on Low Back and Pelvic Pain in Montreal, and a paper summarizing these findings has been submitted to the Journal of Manual and Manipulative Therapy.