What does automatic posture mean?

Autonomous posture: the body can move freely and freely, which is found in normal people, patients with early illness or mild illness. Posture classification: Posture is divided into autonomous posture, passive posture and forced posture.

Body position refers to the position that the body should be in during acupuncture treatment. There are sitting posture, lying posture and standing posture, among which sitting posture and lying posture are commonly used, and standing posture is easy to cause dizziness. Clinically, it refers to the patient's position in the hospital bed or the position maintained during examination.

The basic posture can be divided into active posture and forced posture, and forced posture is more common in clinic, that is, a posture that patients are forced to maintain because of disease needs.

Common forced postures are supine position, concave position, semi-sitting position, sitting position, lateral position, head high and feet low, head low and feet high.

Extended data:

Forced posture, in order to relieve the pain, the patient has to take a certain posture:

1, forced supine position: often accompanied by leg flexion to reduce abdominal muscle tension, seen in acute peritonitis.

2, forced prone position: can reduce the tension of back muscles, seen in spinal diseases.

3, forced lateral position: seen in unilateral pleural lesions, such as a large number of pleural effusion or pleurisy.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-body position