You think you're working on posture. In reality, you're just tinkering with the final result.

You want to work on posture? You must first understand what precedes posture.

Before a muscle contracts, before a body stands, there is a decision made by the nervous system.
And that decision is based on the quality of sensory information you have provided to it.

This is the sensorimotor loop:

• → An automatic decision loop between the brain and the body's sensors.
• → A real-time adjustment circuit that influences every movement and every millisecond of stability.

The problem?

90% of professionals only train the motor response (exercises, chains, tone...).
Whereas the real lever is the quality of input signals.

An example that changes everything

You test a plank with your patient, your client.
He trembles, compensates, cannot hold for more than 10 seconds.

You think: "he lacks strength or motor control".

But look what happens when you do a simple ocular convergence test before the exercise:

→ The person holds for 25 seconds without changing the instruction.
Study result.

Why?

Because convergence engages the frontal and subcortical circuits involved in spatial orientation, which enhances the coherence between visual, vestibular, and proprioceptive signals.

Result: the brain adjusts the perception of verticality as well as the center of the body more finely and stabilizes the overall postural pattern.

And without even realizing it, you just stimulated the sensory input that organizes all of his postural response.

This is working in a sensorimotor loop

Not adding an exercise.
Change the order of the information in the system.

What you need to remember:

• Posture is not a fixed point, it is an adaptive response, second by second.
• It depends on the calibration between three sensory streams: visual, vestibular, somatosensory.
• If you do not analyze the inputs, you remain dependent on motor compensation.

And you cannot learn that by following recipes.
You need to restructure how you analyze, test, and understand.

This is exactly what LabO-RNP allows:
A systemic method to read, test, and correct the sensorimotor loop in all profiles (patients as well as athletes).

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Sources

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• Kapoula, Z., & Lê, T.T. (2008). Effects of distance and gaze position on postural stability in young and older subjects. Experimental Brain Research, 187(4), 567–577.
• Bringoux, L. et al. (2004). Influence of ocular convergence and accommodation on the subjective visual vertical. Vision Research, 44(23), 2557–2564.
• Sober, S. J., & Sabes, P. N. (2005). Flexible strategies for sensory integration during motor planning. Nature Neuroscience, 8(4), 490–497.
• Kapoula, Z., et al. (2010). Role of ocular convergence in the control of posture. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1164(1), 298–302.