Most people, despite the benefits of good posture, have very bad posture. Sinking or curling into a chair is common, and many people are prone to slumping their backs. This is especially true when experiencing back pain, but what many people don’t realise is that poor posture is a major culprit of back pain. A good posture is also important to an individual’s overall health. Good posture is a fantastic way to naturally improve breathing and circulation.
Give Your Kids Good Posture
Do you remember your parents telling you to sit up straight and to stop slouching?
Well you were lucky if they did!
Good posture starts from before you are even born! The way that you are carried in the womb, the way you are held as a baby, and then progressively by the habits you form with the activities you undertake.
So why is our society in a slow decline to poor posture? We are forming bad habits from a young age and it carries though to adulthood. And don’t forget the daily mini-traumas that have more impact than you’d think!
If we adults suffer traumas (a bicycle crash, fall off a ladder, have a car accident etc.) we are checked out by our local chiropractor and supportive health professionals. So who don’t we do this for our children? Our kids are just finding their feet, learning the ways of the world, and they have accidents! They fall out of trees, fall off their bikes, get dunked by waves at the beach, and are swung around but their arms… Being a kid is full on! It is important to experience these mini traumas, but it is also important to make sure they have not affected your child’s posture.
Children are less physically active these days with the invention of the computer game, PlayStation and so forth. This means that our children sit on the school bus, sit at school, sit in front of the TV, sit in front of the computer. SIT, SIT SIT! Our kids are forming poor habits because we are allowing them to sit, and sit poorly, all the time!
We all know how important it is to have our work-station ergonomics set up to your ideal height as to alleviate the pressure on your adult spine, so why aren’t we doing it for our kids?
Tips for good posture.
– Make sure that your kids have good work-stations at home. Computers should be at eye level, feet firmly placed on the ground, and sit up straight!
– Minimize computer and TV time! It will not only help your kids’ posture, but will also improve your family connection.
– Be more physically active – Go to the park, run around, join a sporting team! An active spine is a healthy spine.
– Get your kids walk to school!
– NAG! We are giving you permission to nag! If your kids slouch, pull them up on it and make them aware of it. They might find it annoying now but they will thank you in the long run
Your local chiropractor at Spine and Health in Crows Nest and North Sydney are the experts in Pain and Posture.
The chiro’s here at Spine and Health can conduct a digital postural analysis of your children and discuss the results with you. If it is decided that chiropractic care can help your kids then a personalised treatment plan will be created. Your kids will receive gentle and effective adjustments that are designed for their level of development.
To ensure that your babies, kids, teenagers are on a path to good posture please call us today.
Your kids can look better, move better and feel better too.
Crows Nest Ph 9460 8459
North Sydney Ph 9955 8055
Is your neck causing you pain?
Many things can cause pain in the neck such as traumas and poor posture.. but you don’t have to suffer!
The neck is a delicate and complex structure. It is more mobile than the rest of the spine and houses some critical pathways, both neurological (spinal cord) and functional (esophagus, trachea, vertebral arties etc). Due to the greater capacity for movement in the neck there is also an increase in the risk of damage and pain.
It is increasingly more common for people to have desk jobs and thus we, as a being designed for movement and standing, are spending majority of our days on our backsides. Sitting at a computer, and sitting poorly at that, causes our backs to slump forward and the positioning of our heads to move further and further over our shoulders. The less active we are and the more time we spend sitting the more likely we are to have poor posture. This poor posture means that our heads are no longer positioned above our shoulders as they should be and the weight of our heads increases.
For every inch your head moves forward, it’s weight doubles. In doubling the weight of your head the structures surrounding your neck must work harder and longer to support you.
There are many factors that can affect your neck. Traumas such as whiplash cause an acute onset of pain; whereas daily stressors cause a slow build up of muscle tension and a gradual pain. Furthermore it is possible that your neck pain is actually a sign of a misalignment elsewhere in your spine!
Chiropractic care is based on the premise of restoration of health through restoration of your posture. In today’s society the ever increasingly sedentary lifestyles that we are leading are causing a shift towards poor posture. It is not the norm! And there is something you can do about it!
In consulting your local Spine and Health chiropractors on the Lower North Shore you will undergo a digital spinal analysis to establish your current posture. The chiro’s in Crows Nest, North Sydney, Mosman and Gladesville will be able to construct an action plan with you to tackle any problems you may have structurally and help you on the road to a better posture.
If you are suffering from neck pain or think you may have poor posture please don’t hesitate – come and visit the experts in pain and posture today.
Look Better, Move Better, Feel Better today.
Crows Nest Ph 9460 8459
North Sydney Ph 9955 8055
Mosman Ph 9968 3577
Gladesville Ph 9817 6611