Is Your Posture Killing You?

Send us Fan MailIn this podcast Dr. Rodney and Karen explore the importance of posture.Posture is the position in which you hold your body upright against gravity while standing, sitting or lying down. Good posture improves your appearance and other physiologic functions of your body.Researchers discovered that persons with a hyperkyphotic posture have a 144% greater rate of mortality. This happens because as you type of postural distortion pattern your organs are not allowed to work properly and your chances of dying before your time come close to doubling.Your posture has a positive or negative influence on the daily activities that you do.  Proper posture can only be maintained with adequate muscle flexibility and strength, normal joint motion in the spine and other body regions, as well as efficient postural muscles that are balanced on both sides of the spine. Also, you must recognize your postural habits at home and in the workplace in order work to correct them, if necessary. Simply correcting your posture can enhance the quality of your life and overall health.  Good posture demonstrates confidence, balance, pain free movement and enhanced physiologic function of your body. Whereas poor posture causes additional stress to the body, spinal degeneration, and diffuse pain.  Good posture promotes movement efficiency and endurance and contributes to an overall feeling of well-being.The return on investment for better posture will be astounding in later years. We simply cannot afford to neglect our postural needs, especially when so much of our ability to function is riding on the quality of our postural alignment. Posture is defined as “the relative position of the body at any one period of time”. Correct posture or neutral posture is a position in which minimal stress is applied to the body’s muscles, tissues, joints, and ligaments, providing the most energy efficient movement.You will have more fascia over the central and dominant side of the sternum or breastbone. This means the chest area of a dominant hand person may be tighter or more contracted, possibly causing rounded shoulders if poor posture is evident. In addition to creating stress on the fascia system this can cause a lot of issues and even pain.The best way to correct it is:Bring yourself into ideal postureExtend and reach out your arms in a reversal of the way it was forwardGently pull your head with the opposite handAnother way to correct head-forward posture is with a posture pumpFollow us on Instagram.Follow us on Facebook.Visit our website. Please rate us and write a review!