As the world becomes urbanised the majority of the population is walking in shoes on hard surfaces. This does not allow for the proper reflex stimulation of the growing foot and muscular imbalances will occur.
This is easily evidenced by simply looking at the shoes. An uneven wearing at the heels means that each side of the body is getting a different stimulation with every footstep.
Dr Edward Butterworth & others believes that Idiopathic Scoliosis is caused by postural muscle chain imbalance acting on spinal ligaments weakened by the oestrogen surge of puberty. This starts in the feet.
POSTUROLOGY Posturology is the name of health science discipline that studies the holistic relationships between all the inputs that maintains the upright position of Homo Erectus. These include information derived from the eyes, ears, the bite and most importantly the feet - the prime connection with Mother Earth.
Posturology is alive and well in Europe where doctors, dentists, chiropractors, osteopaths, physiotherapists and other allied practitioners study, co-operate and exchange information on this vital human attribute of posture and movement. Anglophone medicine has yet to fully embrace the concept of Integrative Medicine.
For those that understand French there is an excellent interactive website called Posturelist that has about 150 members from all over the world. To join the site send an e-mail to Posturelist.
Dr Edward Butterworth
The Healthmarque Clinic was established by Dr Edward Butterworth in Sydney Australia in 1995 to introduce the use of reflex foot orthotics for the treatment of all postural problems and scoliosis in particular.
Dr Edward Butterworth is a graduate of Edinburgh Medical School and has practised General Medicine for most of his professional career. A chance attendance at a conference in Europe introduced him to the use of reflex orthotics for the treatment of scoliosis. As the technique used kinesiology as part of the patient examination he was extremely sceptical. However as a father of a daughter whose scoliosis had required the insertion of steel rods some years earlier he was naturally interested and decided to take the technique back to Australia.
Further study and experience in the use of foot stimulation in the control of human posture has led to the development of the Healthmarque PZ Prescriptive Orthotic.
The Healthmarque Clinic has expanded to include other Integrative Medical activities including Natural Hormone Replacement for men and women and Nutrition based on hair analysis.
Dr Butterworth has trained practitioners throughout Australia including the Wellness Centre in Thirroul NSW and now offers a distance learning service to teach the technique to practitioners throughout the world.
The Healthmarque Clinic has an association the Anti Aging Clinic based in London.
Scoliosis
Scoliosis is the S shaped spinal deformity starting mainly in pubescent girls due to postural imbalance at a time of rapid growth. Such imbalance can be detected early by looking at the shoes. At this time the surge of oestrogen from the newly activtated ovaries causes a slackening of the pelvic and lumbar ligaments so that the little girl changes shape to that of a young women. The unbalanced stimulation causes a pelvic tilt followed by a correction at the upper spine to maintain the horizontal pisition of the head to casue the well-known deformity.
Early intervention with Healthmarque Othotics will often reverse the deformity and even the advanced cases can be checked.
How do they work?
The pivotal role of fascia
Fascia is the all-pervading connective tissue that initially surrounds the original fertilised egg and continues to cover and connect with each subsequent cell division as the embryo grows. Thus this fascia connects with every structural and organic cell in the body.
The foot muscles are the first links in connective tissue chains that run up and down within the postural muscles that control posture and movement.
Connective tissues make up the bulk of our bodies and most of this COLLAGEN. Collagen is a liquid crystal, and is a semi-conductor capable of transmitting electrical impulses at rapid speeds. This represents a seperate Body Control that is functionally interconnected with the Brain.
Although there are several types of proprioceptive sensors in the sole of the foot that exert theirinfluence through their connections to the Central Nervous System (CNS) another source of postural information is the generation of electrical charges in the collagen fibres of the plantar muscles. This is the piezo-electrical property of liquid crystals. The collagen responds to footstep pressure causing a piezo-electriacl conversion of mechanical force into electrical communication along the musculo -fascial connective tissue chains mentioned above to modify posture. Thus it can be easily understood how weak or abnormal feel will affect posture and how the Healthmarque orthodics can help.
What happens now?
A kinesiological testing of the plantar muscles allows an accredited Healthmarque practitioner from the Wellness Centre to identify which foot muscles are nor repsonding correctly and be able to prescribe the appropriate Healthmarque orthotic. Almost everybody. All painful postural conditions casued my muscular imbalance as a result of faulty foot stimulation.
The Healthmarque orthotic is a thin combination of rubber and suede containing pockets that can be filled with a crumbled synthetic rubber designed to stimulate but not support selected the plantar muscles to produce a postural correction. We believe hard supporting orthotics will weaken the arches by taking over their muscular function. Who should wear them?
As the world becomes urbanised the majority of the population is walking in shoes on hard level concrete surfaces. This does not allow for the proper reflex stimulation of the growing foot and muscular imbalances will occur. This easily evidenced by simply looking at the shoes. An uneven wearing at the heels means that each side of the body is getting a different stimulation with every footstep. What conditions are treated?
These include: Flat feet, claw feet, knock knees, excessive pronation and supination of the feet,scoliosis, plantar fasciitis, Achilles tendonitis, painful knees and hips.
Success using Healthmarque Orthotics
| This 17 year old girl has had steel rods inserted 12mths earlier. The lumber scoliosis was still progressing, the upper ends of the rods were becoming more prominent. The girl required daily analgesics | A remarkable improvement after 6 months of wearing PZ orthotics |
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