We exist in a gravitational field. You may not appreciate it for the most part but it has influenced your evolution for the past few billion years.

What we don’t tend to do it treat clients or patients in the appropriate gravitational plane. We barely even consider it.

And yet we wonder why we sometimes don’t have the success that we want when resolving issues.

We assess and examine while the patient stands or sits, then lie them down for our convenience.

Instead, why not examine and treat them in the plane that leads to dysfunction. This may lead to insights and interventions apparently disconnected from the presentation but linked and required.

Swimming problems? Standing exam is fine, but clarified in prone, sidelying or supine. Running issues? Listen to the body then treat sitting at the very least. Lower back pain? Get the patient to demonstrate relieving and exacerbating positions and listen, then apply your skill.

Want to create a relaxing outcome, then perhaps removing gravity is a good thing, unloading the heart and helping the lymphatic and venour drainage systems work effectively. But for more active therapies, it may be that following the gravitational field is a good idea.

Using gravity may well offer that differnce that can improve your practice.

Using gravity to change the relationship of the patient can pay dividends.