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Posture: A Culprit of Chronic Pain

10/12/2012

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Are you experiencing lower back pain, pain between the shoulder blades and spine, neck stiffness and upper shoulder pain? Such pain could be caused by your posture and the debilitating effects the following could have on your muscles, bones and nerves:
  • Couch slouching
  • Leaning forward, bending at the waist while in a chair at the desk/computer
  • Forward neck protrusion while using the computer or cell phone or sitting for long periods of time
  • Rounded shoulders, not standing or sitting erect
  • Sleeping with arms over head or hugging a pillow.
  • Looking down on your laptop or cell phone
Today we are considered a “flexion society”. As many of you have perused our hallway picture of a skeleton hunched over sitting at a computer desk, it represents what happens to the spine in an electronics-driven society. The spine takes its toll these days when poor posture is perpetrated by flexed necks and waists from such things as hovering over cell phones, tablets and computers. Such flexion can cause great stress to the spine and muscles. Today, we see more and more people having a forward neck (where the neck protrudes forward beyond the shoulder mid line), having rounded shoulders and slouched upper bodies.
 



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