In Europe, Postural Reconstruction is taught in tandem by the INSTITUTE OF POSTURAL RECONSTRUCTION and the LOUIS PASTEUR SCIENCE UNIVERSITY of STRASBOURG where physiotherapists from around the world come to study this new form of physiotherapy. Licensed physiotherapists are granted a specialized university diploma after three years of study.
Since deformation is caused by the shortening of the muscle chains, the only way to relieve pain in the locomotive system and in the spine is by minimizing the shortening. Most spinal problems are expressions of the hypertonicity of the muscle chains. The recovery of a normal morphology is then an essential condition for good functioning of the body and for freedom from pain.
Postural Reconstruction works to recover good functioning through a return to normal postural tone. This entails first and foremost normalisation of the morphology. We can then say that we practice therapy through morphological reconstruction.