title: The prevention of selected and imposed posture-caused injury.
abstract: It has been recognized for centuries that posture and health are interrelated. Poor health and injuries impose their own specific postures, and poor posture can contribute towards injury and poor health. The correlation between posture and health is not absolute. We can say that a certain posture will increase the probability of injury. Individual differences of age, sex, somatype, fitness, fatigue, load and frequency of posture adoption will dictate if injury will occur, or not, with any individual. There is no doubt that some postures are more stressful than others. The individual factors mentioned dictate whether the resulting strain is above or below the critical amount required for injury.
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health, Perth.
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authors.lastname: Kemp