Ideas on Posture Correction
Posture Correction
What is the Ideal Correct Posture?
Posture correction plays an important role in your health, strength and immunity.
Ensuring your spine is in the best possible alignment is the key to ensuring good posture.
If you were looking at the spine from the back the vertebrae should appear straight, however from the side view it should have 3 distinct curves.
Anatomically, each curve should offer a 60 degree arc to enable the human form to defy the forces of gravity and movement over a lifetime.
If you suffer from poor posture, it does not matter how flexible or fit you think you are, gaining the full benefits of exercise will be out of your reach.
Those 3 distinct curves that form your spine, act as a giant spring absorbing and distributing the load.
Constant stresses such as poor posture, being overweight and being too sedentary all contribute to stress placed on the spine, joint function and poor health that can be improved with posture correction.
Maintaining the Correct Posture While Seated
The fact is your spine does not appreciate or benefit from the seated position, especially when one is slumped over the desk while working.
It is very easy to allow the shoulders to slump, the head to lean forward and the back to relax into the seat. But there are many ways you can take steps in your daily activities to correct posture related issues that can lead to long term health benefits.
- Get up and move around every hour, or go for a 10 min stroll
- Make sure the computer is at eye level
- An ergonomic friendly office chair that supports the lower back is essential. Forget about using the dining room chair if you are home based.
- Your feet should be placed flat on the floor with your knees bent at approx. 90 degrees.
- Contracting your stomach muscles will force you to sit straighter.
Forward Head Posture Correction with Regular Adjustments
The correct posture for the head is when the ear sits level with the shoulder.
Unfortunately, the way we live our lifestyle has many factors that influence forward head posture in a negative way that force the neck and head too far forward creating many spinal problems.
A new term for this condition is being known as suffering from symptoms relating to ‘Tech Neck’.
Having the computer at the wrong level, constantly looking down at the mobile phone has incurred a lot of stress being placed on the spine, specifically the cervical spine.
When the weight of the human head is between 4.5-5kg, having the head constantly leaning too far forward puts a lot of strain on the surrounding muscles that are constantly contracting to hold the head up.
By not having the correct posture normal functions are compromised. Short term resulting problems of forward head posture include:
- Nerve pain
- Neck tension
- Fatigue
- headaches, migraine
- shoulder pain
These can all occur as a result of not maintaining correct posture of the head.
Long term the effects are much more serious leading to disc herniations, arthritis, muscle strain, nerve stress, instability, even possibly developing a hunchback over time.
Current research has also indicated abnormal eye function, ear disturbances, even psychological disorders. Forward Head Posture affects proper function of your all-important nervous system, directly impacting your health.
How to Correct Your Posture with Chiropractic Care
The importance of maintaining supple joint motion through regular chiropractic care is necessary to prevent problems while ensuring posture correction. Regular adjustments from your chiropractor show:
- improved posture
- increase in muscle strength and endurance
- nerves and surrounding soft tissues regenerate
- maintaining bone structure
- Reduction in stress
- and very importantly an increase in energy.
“Studies show leading a sedentary lifestyle decreases brain function allowing the onset of such diseases as Alzheimer’s, Dementia and Osteoporosis”.
Allowing your Chiropractor to conduct gentle adjustments to help posture correction gives you every chance of avoiding long term afflictions that arise from misalignment of the spine and nervous system.
All cells, tissues, organs and bodily functions are controlled by your brain function. Any decrease in your brain function can affect your quality of life and your lifespan.
Allowing your chiropractor to correct posture, is vital to prevent long term damage to the spine and nervous system, often referred to as ‘the arc of life.’
By engaging chiropractic care for posture correction, you are giving your body the greatest gift possible by aiming to achieve and sustain optimal health.
Bonus Offer for your Posture Correction
Take advantage of our New Patient Assessment and have have your posture checked and evaluated for only $47. You will be surprised what can be done for your posture correction.
New Patient Assessment to Correct Your Posture
We are Offering the Following Assessment to All New patients specifically wanting Posture Correction for only $47
- Private Consultation with a Highly Experienced Chiropractor
- Spine System Evaluation
- Nervous System Evaluation
- Postural Evaluation
- Neurologic Evaluation
- Physical & Range of Motion Examination
- Follow up consultation with your highly experienced Chiropractor
- On site X-Ray if required
Why Choose Us for your Posture Correction
Extremely Thorough Chiropractors
Equipped with in-house X-ray equipment leaving nothing to chance or guesswork. These X-rays help to pinpoint the exact cause of your poor posture.
Accredited Chiropractors
Friendly Chiropractors that are fully accredited with the Chiropractic Board of Australia to help with your posture correction so as to ascertain the correct posture.
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We are passionate about your health and would love to be able to help you. Therefore we are offering you our New Patient Assessment which will enable you to have the correct posture.
Common Areas of Poor Posture
Here are some of the common areas of Poor Posture which our Chiropractors can help you with.
Tech Neck
Todays technology is mostly to blame for the increasing problem of poor forward head posture which is why it has been named “Tech Neck”
Best Way to Rectify Tech Neck
The good news is tech neck can usually be rectified by gentle Chiropractic Care to bring your neck back into the correct alignment.
Shoulders in Poor Alignment
Are you happy with where your shoulders sit. Your ear, shoulders and hip, knee and ankle should be in line vertically when you stand in an upright position.
Best way to Rectify Poor Shoulder Alignment
There are numerous ways to fix poor shoulder posture through braces, exercises etc. Chiropractors gently move the shoulders into the correct position over time.
Are your hips in Alignment.
Your hips can be twisted, eneven or both. This can make it painfull to walk, lie down or sit
Chiropractors are a good place to start.
A good Chiropractor usually takes an X-Ray of your hips so as to pinpoint the exact issue with your hips.
Which Pillow for Neck Pain Relief
Complete our simple test to see if your neck and spine are aligned for a good nights sleep.
Back Pain
Sciatica Relief
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