Why Do I Have Bad Posture & How To Fix Bad Posture At Home | 043
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Thank you for joining us for today’s livestream where we talked about how to fix bad posture.
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We’ll be going into what good posture looks like, how you can correct bad posture and how good posture can help how well your body is functioning. If you’re in our Back In Shape membership area, we did a video on good posture recently. Good posture protects our spine and nervous system. Ears over the shoulders, over the hips and over the ankles. Good posture doesn’t always lead to good alignment. You can stand against a wall to see how close your posture is too good. If you find it difficult to have the head against the wall, your posture may have deviated from normal. This good posture allows the body to effectively shock absorb the movements you make.
There can be articles out there that say posture doesn’t cause back pain. You can certainly get away with having bad posture, just like you can get away with having worn tyres or brake pads, but that doesn’t mean they won’t become a problem at some point. If it would hurt to have bad posture, we wouldn’t have this problem. If you spend a lot of time sitting down on a daily basis, you might sit during your commute, sit down to eat dinner and then sit down to do more work or relax in front of the TV in the evening. A lot of us don’t sit upright when relaxing on the sofa, it’s this semi-recumbent position or slouching in a chair. This compresses the front of the spine and squashes your discs. It leads to stretching of the neck which stresses the muscles and ligaments that keep your spine in good alignment. If you accentuate the thoracic curve in the spine, you will still stretch it further and stress out the area. If you have a straight neck, you have a 75% stretch on the ligaments. The muscles are stretched and not primed to take any stress away from the spine. We see significant neck alignment issues in the neck even though it looks like you have good posture. Rounded shoulders decrease our ability to fill the lungs and can give you chest pain. There’s a simple fix to just open out the chest.
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