Posture-After Aqualizer®

Dr. Steven Olmos shows the results on the head, neck and back after using Aqualizer®.

DR. STEVEN OLMOS: If the origin of the postural adaptations, in other words, a change in posture, is coming from the jaw joint and proper decompression using the Aqualizer will make changes. In this patient, we had a TM primary. That means the primary reason for her structural adaptation or poor posture was coming from the jaw joint. So with the proper titration of the Aqualizer, we now come back, and even in this short period of time, we can see some postural changes, and one of the changes that we see is the hands because, now, we can see the thumb and forefinger, when previously, we were seeing the back of the hand. In other words, previously, she had rolled shoulders, but as the jaw, which is now not inflamed, sets back, then the arms come back around like so, okay, so that she doesn’t have as much rolled shoulders as she did previously. That's what you're looking at. Now, this isn't clearing all the responses, but she still has some divergent feet, but in such a short period of time, this is nice to see, and may be a nice basis for either chiropractic/osteopathic therapy who might be treating shoulders, backs, or other kinds of injuries, and not understanding that the TM joint could be the initiator for the dysfunction that they're seeing. If we look at the center line, as we go up, she's still off center, and certainly needs some treatment, although that is a bit better than it was previously, and the shoulders are a little more level. So, again, this is a starting process, and of course, it's only been a very short period of time, but with these clear indicators, this a very exciting example of how quickly this effect can take place. And now, we'd like to show you the sagittal view. Now, we'd like to show the changes in posture in a sagittal view after 10 to 15 minutes of wear with the Aqualizer. Some of the things that we see immediately, if we line the plumb line here with the shoulder, is the difference in the head position, how much more it has come back, just in the short period of time. In other words, if there's inflammation in the jaw, we know 96% of the time that the person is leaning forward, so therefore, 96% of the time, it's going to hurt right there on a patient with a jaw joint problem. And you can see that now, just by decompressing that, how far her head has come up, and how much more in line it is. That means there's less of a bow right here. So if we take a look at a position from a point on the heel, to the hip, to the shoulder, to the ear, the W that was quite accentuated in our first presentation is flattening out to becoming almost a line. Okay? There still is a little bit of forward head posture here, but this is significantly better in the short amount of time that we've had to decompress this joint.