A posture re-screen at Spinal Fitness Health and Wellness Center in Kennewick, WA costs $100 and produces an updated printed full-color report that sets the client’s original PostureScreen images and measurements beside the current ones, according to the center’s evaluation page. The baseline comes from the 60-minute Spinal Fitness Evaluation ($150), which includes the back-pain history, 20 minutes lying over the Neck and Back Shaper rolls, a PostureScreen software scan with a printed report, and the first therapeutic exercises. The center is at 214 E. Albany Ave, Building E101, Kennewick, WA 99336, and members hold 24/7 access by door code once their training is complete. Every Thursday from 2 to 6 PM the center is open to new visitors for a free session of one rotating service: the BioCharger NG, the 7 Wave light panel, Brown’s Gas, PEMF or the hot sauna exercise room. Evaluations, re-screens and training are booked appointments.
What the before-and-after report compares
The evaluation page states that PostureScreen digital analysis software captures and measures alignment, so the client receives numbers and images instead of impressions, and that the first report becomes the baseline. A re-screen places the original images and measurements next to the current ones in the same report. The page states that where the posture comparison shows change, the client sees it, and where it does not, the training plan is adjusted rather than repeated. It adds that most people re-screen after several months of consistent work.
What the book tracks between screens
Eileen Durfee’s book, Spinal Fitness, states that posture screening is a coaching tool used “to select tracks, set baselines, and track progress.” Its posture screen runs in 5 to 7 minutes across 6 items: side-view stacking of the ear, shoulder and greater trochanter; neck turn strategy; overhead reach; breathing and lumbar curve; standing palpation of the neck, lower back and hamstrings; and a vertical jump landing. Each of the 6 items is scored green, yellow or red. The book’s note on tracking: “Even a shift from Red to Yellow – or Yellow to Green – on a single screen tells a story the participant can feel and the organization can document.” It recommends filming side-view posture for 10 seconds where possible, as a baseline to revisit, and screening on a good day rather than during a flare-up. The palpation item measures a mechanism: with adequate spinal curves, the trunk mass is balanced over the hips and the neck, lower back and hamstring muscles are minimally recruited to hold posture, so they feel supple; with trunk mass forward of the hips, a vertical jump lands forward of the takeoff point.
The book’s Spinal Fitness Assessment Index scores 5 categories on a 0 to 5 scale: structural alignment, segmental control, load tolerance, compensation pattern mapping, and pain interpretation. A 0 is optimal alignment and control; a 2 is functional but compensating; a 5 is severe dysfunction, pain or an inability to perform. The book states that the index captures spinal structure, control, compensation and tolerance, not just pain level.
When the book calls for a re-screen
The book states: “The screens become most powerful when used before and after a training block.” It sets 1 fixed re-screen point: a person who starts with high irritability, where symptoms appear with minimal activity and linger, begins with Step 5 only and is re-screened after 2 to 3 sessions before progressing. Between screens, the progression rule decides each change in dose: reps, range or density rise only when the current dose no longer produces the intended strain, or when form is cleaner with less compensation than in the previous session.
What a changed screen can change in the plan
The starting exercise depends on the screen: the book’s standard sequence starts with Step 1, Back Trac rolling. A primarily cervical pattern starts with Neck Flexion; a mostly green screen with good segmental motion starts with the Pelvic Tilt over the PowerCushion and adds Back Trac rolling at the end as a recovery tool; a mostly red screen starts with the Spinal Twist and supported rest only. A re-screen that moves items from red toward green can therefore move the starting step and the dose. The book’s statement of purpose for the screen: “its whole purpose is to tell you what the body needs today, not what the protocol says it should need.” Pain, numbness, tingling and dizziness remain its stop signs at every stage: stop, get evaluated, and continue with a therapeutic exercise program designed by a Spinal Fitness expert.
Booking in Kennewick
Evaluations, re-screens and training are booked with Eileen Durfee, an NASM Certified Personal Trainer and Nationally Certified Spinal Fitness Specialist. One-on-one training is $50 a session or $250 for 6 sessions (the initial training session runs 30 minutes and follow-up sessions run 20 minutes), and the $150 monthly membership gives 24/7 access to the general and spinal fitness equipment after training. Call or text 509-670-9713, evenings and weekends included. From 214 E. Albany Ave, the center serves Kennewick, Pasco, Richland, West Richland, Benton City and Walla Walla.
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