2 . Posture Matters. If you are an avid websurfer or Google MD as many of us are today, you may have read that some research has stated that posture doesn’t have an impact on spinal pain. If so, you are getting a twisted representation of the truth and should reconsider. This research was looking for a correlation between people with poor posture and pain, and when it found some people with poor posture didn’t have pain, it generalized to say that posture was not a relevant factor. I could not disagree with this generalization more! During a therapy session, I can find a painful motion of the neck or shoulder, manually correct the postural deviation and retest the motion often reducing the pain 75% or more from a simple postural correction. Posture is VERY important when you are in pain! It is very easy to become overwhelmed with the amount of postural tips and suggested corrections. I subscribe to the less is more philosophy. If you change a few simple things about the postures you spend the most time in, you will have much greater success than trying to change 50 different smaller things.
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