#Did you know that specific corrective exercises aids poor posture?

Poor posture in the body in youth and older years comes from habitual patterns. Also from past injuries, surgeries and overused muscles. These exercises help individuals to reduce joint pain and restore movement. As well as proper re-balancing and function of muscles for now and the future.

Posture is very important as it relates to injury. It refers to the way a person carries his body. It is the basis for identifying muscle imbalances. A weak structure leads to secondary problems everywhere in the body. The intervention starts with doing a static postural assessment. It allows the CES to see the natural curves of the spine. You want to see this: your head above your shoulders and the top of shoulders over the hips.

You look at the causative factors rather than treating the associated complaints. Treat the cause of discomfort or poor performance. It will be more effective to ease dysfunction. This provides the pain free functional outcomes you seek for clients.

Understanding the main factors that cause postural imbalance is important. Most people never think about it. What you do in everyday life, either in work, sports or leisure affects posture. These factors affect your posture over time without realizing it.

1. Daily Habits : What you do in everyday life.

• For youth, it is school. Carrying loaded backpacks either on one side or the other.

• For adults, it is work and driving. Workstations both at office and home contributes to neck and arm dysfunction. All leads to the body overloaded on one side. If not corrected, continues in an unbalanced position.

• Women in high heels for their work or for pleasure over a prolonged time will throw off the balance. This places more stress on muscles and harms your posture.

• Even watching television, playing video games and slouching can result in postural changes. Awareness of position while doing these activities and adjusting will make it better.

2. Repetitive Movements

These movements often occur in athletes and jobs that need using your upper body. Repeated overuse of the same muscles cause those muscles to remain shortened. Places the body into a poor posture position. Those who used repetitive movements are swimmers and tennis players. As well as construction workers and even waiters. Imbalances also occur in gym members who focus on certain group of muscles over more than others.

3. Past Injuries

When acute at the time can result in chronic imbalances later. This happens because everyone adapts the posture to avoid pain or to do activities. You are cautious of it happening again and continues to promote modified movement. These altered movement patterns can become habit. If proper flexibility isn't restored after injury. All leading to muscle imbalances reflected in changes in posture.

4. Surgeries = Scar Tissue

Scar tissue affects proper movement of muscle and create compensations by other muscles. They pitch in to help with the duties of the affected muscle. Balance movements should be intense or muscle imbalances and postural changes will develop.

A person may never know that they have postural imbalances. Unless there is pain or through an assessment. Having poor posture leads to a few health issues like:

• Harder to breathe

• Harder to digest your food

• Making the spine more fragile and prone to injuries

• Cause neck, shoulder and back pain

• Affect how well the joints move as well as balance

• Decrease flexibility

Once I identify the cause of the problem, a simple corrective program starts. Thus corrective exercise is the key for these reasons:

• Relieve stress on muscles

• Bring back balance

• Restore function and mobility

• Helps maintain a healthy weight

• Leads to good posture

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