Upgraded Posture Assessment

How to get the most out of your Upgraded Posture Assessment:

First, let's talk about how you are going to prepare to take your photographs.

Back view of a shirtless person with light skin, shoulder-length hair, wearing gray shorts, standing in a living room with a colorful rug, couch with pillows, and a window with natural light.

The process of obtaining your pictures should take no more than 2-3 minutes after you have set up your camera and gotten dressed.

Things you will need:

1. Smart phone/computer with camera

2. Open space in your home

  • we need to be able to see your entire body, from your head to toes.

  • good lighting

3. Internet connection to upload or email your photos.

How to Prepare for Quality Posture

Assessment Photos.

1. CAMERA LEVEL

Your camera needs to be as level as possible- not rotated, angled, or tilted. You must be perpendicular to the line of sight of your camera! The further you are away from the center of the lens, the more distorted your images will be.

2. CAMERA HEIGHT

Keep your phone’s camera between belly button and chest height. If not, your body will look distorted, and our data/analysis will be less accurate.

3. MINIMAL CLOTHING

The less clothing you are wearing (please wear sports bra/shorts, no underwear), the better information we will get. We want to see your body’s bony landmark points (knee caps belly button, spine, elbows, etc…).

How to Take the Photos

(for those of you doing this on your own)

After you have gotten your camera squared up and are wearing the appropriate clothing as explained above, you will want to start recording a VIDEO.

1. Step into the frame of your camera, making sure that we can see you from the bottom of your feet, to the top of your head.

2. First, face forward toward the camera, standing as relaxed as possible with your arms at your sides.

3. Then, after pausing here for a few seconds, turn to your side so that your right shoulder points directly at the camera lens. Look straight ahead (not at the camera). Pause for a few seconds.

4. Then, you will turn 90 degrees so that your back faces the camera. Pause here for a few seconds.

5. Then, turn 90 degrees, again, so that your left shoulder is pointed right at the camera lens. Look straight ahead (not at the camera) and pause for a few seconds

6. Stop recording your video

How to Obtain Photos from your Video:

Click this link to watch a video on how to do this (written instructions below):

1. Begin by opening your photos app on your iPhone or Android device.

2. Then, begin playing your video.

3. Pause the video, and take a screenshot of you facing straight ahead, from the sides, and from behind.

a. To take a screenshot, press the volume and power button simultaneously.

b. You have to press them at the same time for a screenshot to be saved to your photo library.

Your photos should end up looking like this:

Woman in black workout outfit standing on a yoga mat indoors near a sliding glass door with plants outside. Exercise equipment is visible on the floor.
A woman standing on a yoga mat in a sunlit living room, facing a blank wall, preparing for yoga or meditation.
A woman in workout clothes standing on a yoga mat in a sunlit room, with large green potted plants and a television in the background.
A woman in black workout clothes doing a standing yoga pose in a sunlit living room with large glass doors, a potted plant, and scattered yoga props.
A woman stands on a yoga mat in a bright living room, with a large window and green plants nearby.
A woman in black workout clothes and a headband practicing a standing balance pose on a yoga mat in a bright living room with large potted plant and sliding glass door.

Pay and Submit Your Photos

You’re almost done!

Click the link below to be redirected to the page where you will pay for your premium posture assessment. You will be emailed the instructions above and at the bottom of the e-mail you will be provided a link to submit your photos.

Upgraded Posture Assessment Upgraded Posture Assessment
Upgraded Posture Assessment
$40.00

The Upgraded Posture Assessment looks at how your body is creating compensation in both rested and active positions. We will look at two types of assessments in this analysis:

Rested (standing)

Active (single-leg stand)

The upgraded posture assessment gives us more information than the basic assessment (rested/standing positions) by asking each side of your body to do work in different ways than one another.

The way you walk, or stand on one leg and lift the other, is largely dependent on the body you bring in to walking: aka the body we see in your resting (standing) photographs.

This assessment helps us look deeper into the way your body functions as you move throughout your daily life.

This posture assessment will help us decode the messages your body is sending in two simple positions: standing and walking.

Click below to read the instructions on how to take your photographs.