Mobility and Stability in Relation to the Basic Concepts of Posture, Local and Global Stability and Core Stability

As an introduction to the Posture Cultivation Department study day, I have chosen to refresh and clarify some basic concepts whose verbal meanings, taken at face value, might be perceived as extremely far removed from human flexibility and mobility. But that`s not the case! In fact, there is nothing further from the truth than the perception that `posture` and `stability` represent static entities.

One of the major aims of this lecture will be to present the essential connection between posture, movement and stability, and to corroborate the aim of human posture as maintaining the balance between mobility and stability.

I had many reservations about whether to enter into the fray about the interpretations of these concepts. On the one hand they are very familiar and widely used, but on the other they can be confused and confusing. There is still less clarity about what exactly constitutes the core; either anatomically, physiology or functionally.

Some glorify the terms and represent their entities as if they were methods by themselves, while others see them with perplexity and question marks as they appear in the following titles:

`The myth of core stability`, or `What`s all the buzz about core stability`?

`If you asked 100 different sport scientists what is core stability, you would get 100 different answers.`

This statement challenges me to offer my interpretation – number one hundred and one – in an attempt to put these matters into order, perhaps a new order.