Let’s consider the utility of the P-PAS for school students who are required to participate in a variety of activities during the school day. Quality of posture is scored “Yes” or “No” and takes weight distribution in all four positions into consideration using the sagittal and frontal view of the body. At Level 1, the client cannot be placed in an aligned position, and at Level 7, the client easily moves from a position. The client’s postural ability depends on his or her ability to be placed in, and move in and out of positions, and is classified on a seven-tiered scale. 2012)³, making it useful for assessing the postural ability of clients with significant physical disabilities. The P-PAS has excellent inter-rater reliability, internal consistency and construct validity (Rodby-Bousquet et al. Postural ability is defined as a person’s ability to stabilize the body’s segments relative to each other and a stabilizing surface in order to assume the most appropriate body configuration to complete a particular task within an environment. Posture, in this context, refers to the anatomical alignment of body parts in relationship to each other and the environment. The Posture and Postural Ability Scale or P-PAS (Rodby-Bousquet, et al., 2015)¹, is a tool that can be used to assess posture, postural ability and the quality of posture in prone, supine, sitting and standing positions.
