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What if posture isn’t about “standing up straight,” but about how your brain reads the world through your feet and eyes? We sit down with Dr. Bernard Bricot—orthopedic surgeon and pioneer of posturology—to rethink back pain, performance, and the myths that keep people stuck. Instead of chasing symptoms or relying on phasic muscles to fix a tonic job, we examine posture as a sensory integration problem: the nervous system blends signals from the foot’s ultra-sensitive skin, the extraocular muscles, and the vestibular system to set tone and organize movement against gravity.

We dig into why tonic muscles quietly do the heavy lifting, why frequency-based foot stimulation can recruit better support than rigid inserts, and why testing eye convergence all the way to the bridge of the nose reveals asymmetries most exams miss. You’ll hear how disharmonic feet can tilt the pelvis, load L5-S1, and ripple through the thoracic spine and C2—patterns that return unless the upstream sensors are addressed. Fascia takes center stage as the tissue that “locks in” bias, explaining chronic, recurring misalignments and why gentle, ongoing sensory inputs can override those fixations more reliably than forceful adjustments or isolated stretching.

We also tackle the genetics debate with an epigenetic perspective: uncorrected sensory imbalances may echo across generations, which reframes prevention as early, sensory-aware care rather than late-stage correction. Along the way, we challenge the “correlation isn’t causation” refrain by highlighting silent lesions—objective tissue changes that exist without pain—and how relying on symptoms alone misguides treatment. If you’ve tried posture drills without lasting change, this conversation offers a clearer map: assess the feet, test true convergence, tune tonic support, and let the nervous system reorganize from the ground and the gaze up.

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