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ISSUE: JUNE 2020
YOUR POSTURE MIGHT BE THE CAUSE ACHES & PAINS GETTING YOU DOWN?
• The pain will subside after switching positions, such as switching from sitting to standing or vice versa. • Back or neck pain that develops soon after a change in circumstances, such as starting a new job with a new desk chair, or getting a new car. After years of practicing poor posture, your back, shoulder, and neck muscles will likely find standing or sitting with straight posture to be uncomfortable. This is because your muscles have grown accustomed to the slouching, and standing up straight will require some thorough stretching and strengthening. That doesn’t mean that once you have bad posture you can never correct it.
Remember back when your mother used to tell you that if you wouldn’t stop hunching your shoulders, they’d be stuck that way forever? An idle threat, one that barely anyone took seriously. Yet, fast forward a few decades and it turns out that mom might have been on to something, after all. A poor habit of bad posture can have a lasting impact on your neck and back. The worse your posture is, the more intense your back and neck pain can become. Unfortunately, once you start experiencing neck and back pain, simply squaring your shoulders isn’t likely to bemuch help. Workingwith a physical therapist can help you to train themuscles in your back, neck, and shoulders so that you can improve your posture permanently, and in doing so bring relief to your chronic neck and back pain.
The Posture and Pain Connection Not all back pain is caused by poor posture, and it is true that you can have poor posture for years without feeling the consequences of that slouch right away, but in time the habit is likely to catch up with you. There are certain ways that you can tell if neck or back pain may be a result of poor posture, including: • The pain in your back is worsened at certain times of the day. For example, after you’ve spent a day at the office, or after a few hours on the couch. • The pain frequently starts in your neck and moves into your upper and lower back. Pain that seems to travel from one area of the back to another is frequently an indication of posture concerns.
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SOMETHING GOOD IN COLORADO
This sweet golden retriever is showing that dogs aren’t just man’s best friend—they’re also man’s best neighbor, too. Karen Eveleth of Manitou Springs knew that she wanted to do something to help her senior neighbor in quarantine—but she didn’t know how to offer
“The side effect of quarantine is that it’s really hard to end a phone call. Twice today, I almost said, ‘Okay, I have to run’ before realizing there is nowhere to run.”
any assistance without potentially endangering her. In a stroke of genius, Eveleth then taught her pet dog Sundance how to deliver groceries to her neighbor’s door. Not only has Sundance been delivering food and meals to the neighbor, he has also been retrieving her mail from the postal box. Courtesy: goodnewsnetwork.org/dog-delivers-groceries-meals-to-senior-neighbor-in-quarantine
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