Abstract
Upright standing posture of an adult woman was studied on a number of different sorts of heel heights by moire topography method. Well-poised body surface configuration could be evinced by the least curve of the dorsum on the heel height of 40 mm. The woman felt instability in keeping the upright standing posture on the heels higher than 40 mm. The more lordotic posture was exaggerated by the higher heels by backward movement of the most protruded points of the calves, the thighs and the scapulae. A bulge or swelling of the lumbar part of the proprial dorsal muscles could be observed in the case of more than 80 mm of heel height. Approaching to 100 mm over 80 mm on the heel height, the nates aut dunes were drawn backward, while the kyphotic tendency of the thoracic column became more and more conspicuous. Extreme change could be observed around the under part of the calves on the heel height of 100 mm.
