Everyone must have heard either through your friends or from your doctors that you have a poor posture and your neck and back pain is because of that.
Did you try correcting it?
Everytime you correct yourselves to an erect position, do you feel it is returning back into a stooped posture within a short while.
Have you been trying to adjust the height of the chair, backrest, arm support, distance of your computer screen etc., to correct your posture.
Have you also been investing in the best chairs to help yourself.Chairs won’t help, instead fix your spine which should be pain free to fit into any chair.
Come let’s understand what is the right posture and how it can be maintained.
Spine plays a major role in deciding your posture. As infants we all are born with a single convex curve in the spine which slowly starts curving to meet our demands like the neck(cervical) area starts getting a lordotic or C curve for the kid to start looking up and that’s how we develop a curve in the neck. After few months, as the baby starts crawling the low back( lumbar curve) develops which is similar to the neck curve( C shaped curve).
The muscles supporting the spine called stabilisers (local Stabilizers) help in maintaining the alignment and the curves and hence they reduce the load on the internal structures like the discs and the intervertebral joints.
Habitual bad postures can lead to undue stress on the muscles and various structures which causes pain and spasm. Prolonged pain and spasm can cause weakness of postural muscles and can further lead to exaggeration or loss of spinal curves.Bad lifestyle contributes a lot to this. Weight training in the gym doesn’t help as it works only on the superficial muscles which don’t help in stability.
At Jaya physio clinics, thorough evaluation of posture and all the structures involved is done, after which a detailed treatment plan is designed which includes Myofascial and Articular Mobilisation and Manipulation, Kinetic control exercises, Postural awareness and Ergonomics.