Balanced posture for healthy life..!!!

Whenever you are impressed or dominated with any person you must have observed there attitude, there posture, the way they talk or the way they walk and carry there self. For having good and convincing personality you must carry proper posture of your body. Not only for your impressive personality but for your healthy and happy life.

Basically good or healthy posture as we denote is maintaining your normal spine curvatures and your bones are properly aligned and your muscles. When your posture is balanced your vital organs are in the right position and can function at peak efficiency. Gravity is always acting on our body and contributes is weight distribution in all body parts, whether we are standing, sitting or lying down gravity exerts a force on our joints, ligaments and muscles. Good posture entails distributing the force of gravity through our body so no one structure is overstressed.Poor or bad posture often cause due to bad postural habits and routine activities here are some highlighters for bad posture:

• Poor sleep support (mattress)

• Excessive weight

• Visual or emotional difficulties

• Foot problems or improper shoes

• Weak muscles, muscle imbalance

• Careless sitting, standing, sleeping habits

• Occupational stress

• Poorly designed work space

• Accidents, injuries and falls

There is strong connection of your posture and your health, most important low back and neck problems. With imbalance posture your spine start getting excess curvatures (increasing lordosis or kyphosis) or start reducing their normal curves (flat spine) as shown in images. It start producing pain in daily activities and leading to more and more health issues. according to research, Your poor spinal curvatures give 63% low back problems, 53% neck problems, 38% shoulder problems and 33%wrist problems.

 

 

Everyone can avoid the problems caused by bad posture...and you can make improvements at any age. Just doing proper strengthening and stretching exercises prescribed by your physiotherapist, doing some modifications in daily routine and proper aligning your work place and most important by avoiding bad postural habits one can maintain balanced posture and healthy life for whole your life.