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Correcting Forward Head Posture by Krista Leake PT, DPT, ATC Does your head weigh 60 pounds? Well, we certainly hope not, but did you know you can make it weigh that much! The average head weighs 8-12 lbs and when it’s stacked well over your spine, it weighs just that much. However, as you see below, when you start to let it fall forward the load it puts on your spine and muscles increases exponentially! Since most of our life is in front of us and involves screens nowadays, we tend to lean our head forward to read and interact with all of these things.
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Over time, we tend to get tight into this position and weak being able to get out of it. The reason this is bad is you can end up stressing your neck muscles and joints with up to 60 pounds of stress throughout the day! That WILL lead to pain. So what do we do about it? We fix it with a simple chin tuck exercise. This exercise will work on stretching your top suboccipital muscles that get tight and strengthening your deep neck muscles to keep your head there! Get going on the chin tuck below!
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