"Stand up straight. Walk straight. Sit up straight." Can you just hear your mother's voice? Posture is important. The spine is made for balance and stability, and posture control improves balance.
How does posture affect spine health and back pain relief in Fernandina Beach?
Posture Education Relieves Back Pain Better Than Exercise
The effectiveness of a Global Postural Reeducation program as compared to a Stabilization Exercise program in subjects with persistent low back pain at 3 and 6 months was studied. Postural education is more beneficial than stabilization exercises in controlling persistent low back pain. (1)
Furthermore, a distressing paper surfaced stating that young people with non-specific low back pain demonstrate a reduced ability to switch to a more multi-segmental postural control strategy during complex postural conditions. This leads to decreased postural robustness. They also have more trouble balancing due to reduced spinal input for balance control. (2)
Posture Even Affects Incontinence
Posture affects vaginal pressure and subsequently incontinence for women. Pelvic floor muscle activity is affected more by posture - sway back posture activates more muscle activity - than by the activity being performed (standing versus laying). (3) Another strong reason to work on your posture.
What to Do about Fernandina Beach's Posture? Incorporate Both Exercise and Posture Education.
Teach yourself to consciously sit and stand. When you must sit, do it properly with a straight back. While
sitting in the bleachers at a little league game in Fernandina Beach or in the chairs in Amelia Chiropractic Clinic's waiting room, resist the temptation to slouch. Slouching magnifies the pressure in your spine. You want to decrease spinal pressures or at least keep them to a minimum when your back hurts. Same with prolonged
standing like waiting in line at the Fernandina Beach grocery store:
don't slouch. If you need to stand for a long time, take a break to walk a little. Share these postural tips with your children in Fernandina Beach, too. Good posture is a habit that must develop over time.
Exercise for Better Posture. Building strength in your spinal muscles and abdominal muscles go far to support your upright posture when moving around Fernandina Beach. Basic exercises like
standing on one foot and
abdominal strengthening on a stability ball re-establish nerve endings' sense of position and promote the up-right posture needed for
low back pain relief and prevention.
Fernandina Beach Posture and Back Pain Relief with Amelia Chiropractic Clinic
Contact Fernandina Beach's Amelia Chiropractic Clinic for posture education and exercise as well as a chiropractic treatment plan to relieve back pain with Cox Technic which is research-documented to reduce intradiscal pressures in the spine as well.
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