Hope for Sitka Back and Neck Pain Due to Slouching and Poor Posture
Our moms and dads warned us about slouching. Our teachers did, too. Certainly, our Sitka chiropractor does now! Did we or do we heed their advice? Not likely when we were young and maybe a small number who are older and wiser now. Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka understands and embraces slouchers and poor posture folks. Come to Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka for Sitka neck pain and back pain relief from your slouching ways. Go away with tips on how to keep posture-influenced pain and distress at bay.
SLOUCHING, LIFTING, POOR POSTURE AND PAIN
Slouching posture is just not good, not good for your spine, your health, your mood. Slouching is linked to things like pain, depression, and stress as well as lower levels of general health, emotional well-being, and energy/fatigue. (1) Spinal angles need to be abided by which slouching do not do. The pelvic angle, the angle of pelvic tilt, body mass index and thoracic kyphosis angle had a significant role in whether a person had back pain or not. (2) Slouching while lifting isn’t good either as it put a strain on disc fibers and increased intradiscal pressure. Consequently, Recent research recommended using a “free posture” that it was neither too kyphotic or lordotic curved. Thus it used both active and passive spine elements in a more balanced way. (3) This concept of balance makes practical sense to chiropractors and their chiropractic patients who know well often what triggers their back pain bouts.
Sitka CHIROPRACTIC PATIENTS CAN LIST THINGS THAT TRIGGER THEIR BACK PAIN
Back pain sufferers can explain to us chiropractors what they think initiates their pain. Active movements (35%), static postures (28.1%), overdoing a task (5.3%), biomechanical issues, lack of exercise, work and medications top the list. Some Sitka back pain sufferers will concur that even nonbiomedical matters like psychological state/stress/anxiety, weather, sleep, diet and fatigue may trigger back pain. (4) Your Sitka chiropractor is aware of how helpful our Sitka back pain patients’ understanding of their pain helps them recover. Knowledge like this and a tool can make great results!
WHAT TO DO ABOUT SLOUCHING FOR BETTER POSTURE
Could today’s tech-y gadgets improve posture? Possibly, it may do so quite a bit! As with anything in life, feedback is beneficial; feedback influences change. In a new study of feedback on posture using a wearable feedback device for only 15 minutes a day boosted participants’ descriptions of physical functioning, emotions, energy/fatigue, confidence, overall stress in addition to neck and back posture contrasted with a group who did not use the device. (1) We – including your Sitka chiropractor – set out with the best of intentions to “watch” our posture, but in the end, we just are not that observant on our own! Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka is here to help.
CONTACT Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Roy Siegel whose NYC practice partners with performers of all types…as well as a special patient in Pope John Paul II…whose posture is foundational to what they do. On The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson about his involvement with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Schedule you Sitka chiropractic appointment with Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka today. Slouchers and poor posture sufferers of all ages are invited. It’s time to take note of the warning about the hazards of poor posture and resulting Sitka back pain and neck pain. At Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka, you'll get pain relief and get advice for preventing more pain.
