Integrative Postural Therapy: We balance bites with bodies! The body’s natural asymmetry of the internal organs sets all of us up to compensate as we attempt bilaterally symmetrical activities like walking. Though the root cause is the same, how each of us adapts varies: some slouch forward, others become hyper-erect, and yet others tend to favor one side over the other. These different physical states are not the problem — the problem is when a person can’t get out of that pattern and thus becomes “locked.” As a person lives in a locked body position, many of the references needed for healthy function are lost. When the bite locks a patient into that position, we fit him with a custom dental orthotic (lower bite splint), building in specific biting patterns to help the patient to feel how the jaw and neck position can change — simply by feeling the teeth touching the bite splint in that pattern.