Alignment Matters: The First Five Years of Katy Says

Unwittingly, our organisms are literally being shaped by these kinds of factors: negatively, when they exaggerate curvatures in our bones, webs of restriction in our muscles and ligaments, and restrict our digestion and respiration; and positively, when they augment our liveliness, expand our ranges of movement, and comfort our eyes, etc.

Understanding the process should eventually help clinicians recognize many common health issues (including such diseases as osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, cancers, and collagenopathies) as diseases of mechanotransduction—and, more importantly, aid scientists in designing more specific load-intervention therapies. Until then, we can consider how we l