Assuming an inadequate posture: is it a bad costume or part of the normal development?

Abstract

Children adopt different postures as a normal consequence oftheir development, sometimes these attitudes are erroneouslycalled postural vicious. This article summarizes the childrenpostural development, explains why most of the positionsadopted by children are normal, and invite health professionalsto analyze critically postures before categorizing them as apostural vicious.

Keywords

• Postures
• vicious
• children
• normal
• development