Our daily life habits changed a lot as consequence of modernization process which has unfortunately modified in negative way the posture shape of human being. To restore a new balance in accordance with these changes human body performs several compensatory actions which often become the reason to occur incorrect posture. Because of that “Incorrect Posture” not only becomes one 6 of the most studied issues by many scientists but, its incidents have recently increased especially among young generation. (Motow-Czyz et al., 2014; Brianezi et al., 2011, Balamurugan, 2014)
The human body is changing throughout life, but the greatest challenges are recorded during puberty when posture as a result of the dynamic changes appears to be more flexible. In addition to that posture can easily be modified even from negative factors such as: standing for hours in front of computers or video games, the way they seat in class, how they do homework, heavy school bags or ways of holding the bag, using urban transport, unhealthy food, low level of physical activity or wearing uncomfortable shoes. The degree of postural deviations may deteriorate more if these negative factors influence continuously and for a long time. So we emphasize that being aware of “negative factors” or “health problems” that postural deviations can cause over time, have a special importance to challenge this phenomenon.
There are several health problems that children may face especially if their posture displacement is not corrected in time and affects their posture shape for a long time such as: insufficient circulation in the brain (forward head); breathing difficulties (kyphosis), malfunction of heart (kyphosis and scoliosis, both of them); stomach inflammation or nausea (rounded shoulders reducing space between sternum and pubic bone). (Wiggins & Victoria, 1931: Loveless, 1999; Dickson, 2004) There are evidenced that most of the postural deviation are caused by “lack of information” about posture.
By many researchers, the ability to keep the body straight during dynamic and static movements is considered as a relative relationship between the different parts of the body in order to keep it upright. (Bloomfield et al., 1994; Norris, 2000; Kendall et al., 2005; Penha et al., 2005) Posture is considered too as a behavior that is performed mechanically which can easily be modified and affected by various actions or habits. (Kratenova et al., 2007)
Having a “good posture” means also having a muscle balance in order to protect the supporting structures of the body against injury or progressive deformation. (Bloomfield et al., 1994; Norris, 2000) These last two decades is identified that young generation is frequently attracted by the use of electronic devices (eg: Mobile, iPad, video game act) which is identified to affect the upright standing that professionally is called “Posture”. (Tremblay & Willms, 2000; Banfield, 2000; Misra et al., 2012)
This evidence are revealed even by another author who emphasized that children, who were spending 14 hours a week watching television or playing video games, had the highest probability of incorrect posture occurrence. (Kratenova et al., 2007) Furthermore, it is observed that a significant relationship exists between body weight and lumbar lordosis; how to do homework and thoracic kyphosis, sitting position or the way they hold school bag and scoliosis. (Minoo et al., 2013)
After a detailed review of the poor posture prevalence among children we identified a variety of reports about the incorrect posture level. This variety comes out because of different postural tests used by each author and the age groups were the studies were focused on.