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An integrative Blue Portance concept referring to the body’s capacity to adjust its postural organization and its tissue responses to stress, while preserving balance, mobility and load distribution.
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The possibilities available to a person in a given situation to change their postural organization and vary the stresses placed on tissues, without losing balance or concentrating those stresses over long periods.
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In the SBNFA™, adaptive reserve refers to the functional margin still available that allows a biological system to change its organization when a load or a situation changes.
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Alcock’s canal, or the pudendal canal, is a fascial passage on the lateral wall of the pelvis through which part of the pudendal nerve runs together with the internal pudendal vessels.
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Algophobia is an intense, persistent or disproportionate fear of pain itself. It differs from the ordinary fear of getting hurt and from kinesiophobia, which concerns movement.
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Allodynia is pain caused by a stimulus that is normally not painful: a light touch, the contact of clothing, gentle pressure. It is a descriptive clinical term: it describes what the person feels, without by itself designating a mechanism.
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Anterior pelvic tilt refers to a forward tilt of the pelvis, which increases sacral slope and is usually accompanied by a deepening of the lumbar curve. It is an orientation or a movement, not a disorder.
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