The Egoscue Metho is a Postural Therapy program which involves a series of stretches and gentle exercises called E-cises. It is designed to treat musculoskeletal pain without drugs, surgery, or manipulation. This is accomplished through bringing the skeleton back into proper alignment. Certain E-cises relax overly contracted muscles, which are usually secondary muscles compensating for the weak primary muscles not fulfilling their role. At the same time those or different E-cises strengthen the atrophied muscles to restore proper anatomical balance. The goal of this method is to have all eight load-bearing joints, which are the shoulders, hips, knees and ankles, bilaterally aligned with a fully functional musculoskeletal system to keep it that way.