“Sit up straight!”
January 11, 2016
The importance of good posture:
We have all heard it said by friends and family: stand up straight! Well unfortunately, mom had it right said Dr. Justin Davis, your local Tigard OR Chiropractor. Most neck pain comes about from poor posture that we do all day, which any decent chiropractor will tell you right away. The problem with our society these days is we sit for so much that our body starts to get used to being in this position. We sit on our way to work, we sit at work all day, then we get off and come home and end up sitting some more on the couch while “relaxing” after a tough day at work. And unfortunately we see it often at our chiropractic center that most of the time the neck pain comes about from sitting in the diagram below
Neck pain starts to develop when the head gets used to being forward. This causes the shoulders to follow, so we get the sagging shoulders, which continues to contribute to neck pain by reinforcing the bad posture. We can correct this with chiropractic adjustments, but there also needs to be a good home regimen of self treatment and corrections to how you sit.
Good Posture
Unfortunately it’s not quite as easy as mom used to say. “Sit up straight” doesn’t really fix the problem. Simply trying to sit up more erect will only last for about 2 minutes, then everything will go back to the way it has become used to. You need to find out exactly what’s wrong and get a tailored plan on how to fix it. At our Tigard clinic we deal with business professionals all day long who have this problem, but have found a very reliable way of treating it. This leads to long lasting results and empowers the patient to be able to do work from home instead of relying on a visit to the chiropractor every week.
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