Yes — but only if you address why posture breaks down in the first place. Most people think posture is a “muscle issue,” but the real source of postural collapse is a neurological issue. Your brain decides which muscles fire, in what order, and how long they hold. If those signals are distorted by stress, injury, or years of sitting, posture breaks down — even if you stretch or strengthen diligently.

At Body in Balance, we combine chiropractic alignment with neuroplasticity-based retraining to teach your brain how to activate your stabilizing muscles correctly. Instead of forcing posture with effort, your body learns to hold alignment naturally and automatically.

Many patients notice changes in how they stand, feel, and move within the first few sessions, especially in reduced tension and improved alignment. But long-term posture correction happens as the brain learns new movement patterns and adopts them as the new “default setting.”

Because our approach retrains the nervous system (not just the muscles), improvements feel more natural, more sustainable, and less effortful than traditional stretching or strengthening programs. You are teaching your brain a new way of organizing your posture — and once it learns it, it tends to stick.

Most posture programs only address the hardware (the muscles). We address the software that controls them — the brain and nervous system. Poor posture is caused by poor neurological sequencing: the wrong muscles tighten, the wrong muscles shut off, stabilizers don’t fire in the right order, and compensations take over.

Our MAPS Protocol focuses on retraining the brain-based control of stabilizer muscles, improving sequencing and activation, restoring automatic stability, and integrating alignment, muscle therapy, and neuro-motor training into one cohesive system.

We’re not just trying to “strengthen a weak muscle” — we’re teaching the brain a better movement strategy.

Yes. When posture breaks down, the nervous system shifts into protective, compensatory patterns. This increases stress on joints, discs, and muscles, causing tightness, fatigue, inflammation, or chronic pain. Common issues linked to posture include neck pain, upper back tension, low back pain, headaches, shoulder issues, and generalized fatigue.

By correcting posture at the neurological level, you remove the source of mechanical stress — not just the symptoms. Patients often notice reduced pain as soon as their stabilizer muscles begin working correctly again.

No. Traditional symptom-based care often creates dependence because it never fixes the underlying control problem. Our MAPS Protocol is designed to reduce dependence on healthcare by teaching you how to maintain stability on your own.

As your brain learns new postural patterns, you gain better body awareness, improved movement efficiency, automatic stability, and the tools to maintain progress independently. Our goal is always to put you in control — not keep you coming forever