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Do you find your back and neck getting stiff and sore at the end of the day? Do you notice your mood feels worse after sitting slumped over your computer? If so, your posture may be to blame.
At Gold Coast Physical Therapy, our physical therapists can help determine if your posture is the problem and how to restore it for a healthy spine! Your body was made to move, especially your spine. It is typical for areas of your spine to tighten up, placing too much strain on other areas. When this happens, those areas can become irritated and painful.
Stress on the Spine
Too often, we spend our time staring at a computer screen, hunched over our desks, or looking down at our phones. These postures create a lot of stress on our spine. The worse your posture is, the more intense your back and neck pain, the harder it is to breathe, and the worse your mood becomes.
Fortunately, Gold Coast Physical Therapy can help ease some of these stressors. Specialized hands-on techniques and targeted exercises can help restore mobility and strength in your spine and improve your posture.
Our dedicated physical therapists can teach you how to correct your posture and bring you relief before it becomes a significant problem!
What Exactly is Good Posture?
When people think of posture, they usually imagine someone sitting tall or perhaps slumped. Or they imagine someone standing tall at attention (like in the military). Posture is the position(s) of a person’s body in space. This includes how we move, like our lifting postures or reaching postures.
When the spine is in its natural position, the vertebrae stack up over one another. This is what people call “good posture” (also referred to as a neutral spine). This neutral spine posture allows the body to absorb and distribute stresses from everyday activities such as sitting, standing, walking or more intense activities such as running and jumping.
Our spine is designed to move, which means our posture should also move. The spine does not like to remain in any one position for extended times. Our therapists can help teach you to find your neutral spine posture to counteract the slouching to alleviate your pain and improve your overall health!
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