Head over heels? The forgotten art of posture
Santiago Calatrava, the Spanish engineer and sculptor, describes what he terms as the 'the aesthetic problems' in constructing skyscrapers as two-fold: "how to meet the ground and how to meet the sky". To me as an osteopath [and practising human being] I find his phrasing a perfect description of the challenges of human posture. Evolution has pulled us up to be the high-rises of the animal kingdom: lifting us up onto our hind legs, opening out the backs of our knees, prising
