What is Interactive Abdominal Scanning (IAS) ?

IAS is a biofeedback tool using an ultrasound scanner to teach and fine tune efficiently, the correct use of the corset muscle - transversus abdominus.

The corset muscle can be easily trained, though the effort required is so slight, that most people end up training other muscles instead. Back pain has been shown in experiments at the University of Queensland, to be linked to this muscle's weakness therefore its' correct use is imperative.

Biofeedback, devices designed to give information back about one's own body, is employed to enable a definite measure of changes rather than imprecise feelings. It enables a subtle sensitivity that is replicable. A physiotherapist can be sure that the client has understood the concept if the biofeedback device confirms it.

Interactive abdominal scanning allows the client to experience and visualise on the scanner, an abdominal contraction at varying degrees of effort. It shows when the corset muscle has been correctly employed or indeed if a cheat has been used.

Core stability is taught at Physioworks and IAS, in most instances, helps people to visualise the corset muscle and learn it's correct use.