6 BENEFITS OF GOOD POSTURE Health & Wellness The Newsletter About Your Health And Caring For Your Body “It’s Time To Handle Simple Chores Without Pain!”
Wouldn’t it be great to improve your overall health and increase your energy level? Maintaining correct posture is a simple but effective way to help achieve this. The following are a few benefits of maintaining correct posture. 1. Improves Your Breathing. Better posture means your lungs have more room to functionat fullcapacity.Healthyandcorrectbreathingcan improve your body’s ability to stay healthy and can help keep energy levels high. 2. Protects Your Organs. Maintaining good posture reduces extra strain on your organs, joints, muscles, and bones. This not only protects your body by reducing unnecessary strain, but helps you feel more comfortable throughout the day. 3. Protects You from Arthritis. When you are standing with correct posture, this reduces unnatural pressure on your body, specifically your joints. Years of unnecessary wear and tear on your joints can lead to arthritis. 4. Exercises Your Body. Maintaining sound posture means you’re using muscles in your abdomen and back correctly. Standing and sitting properly helps provide a constant state of exercise for your body. 5. Efficiently Uses Your Muscles. Joints and bones that are in proper alignment will require less muscle energy to move around. This in turn leaves you feeling more energetic throughout the day. 6. Changes the Way You Feel. When you are standing or sitting in an upright instead of in slumped position, this will send positive signals to
your brain. You will feel more confident and ready to take on your daily tasks. You’ll also appear more assertive and confident to others. Making an effort to maintain correct posture can reduce pain and can improve how you feel on a daily basis. The experts at South Toledo Physical Therapy have years of experience in training patients how to correct their posture and body mechanics. We can help you reduce neck and back pain that is a result of years of poor posture. Postural restoration can help your body use the correct muscles to improve your body composition and eliminate pain. Most back pain is caused by your spine not being in proper alignment. Poor alignment causes strain on joints, ligaments, and muscles. Since your lower back supports a high amount of your body weight, this area is very vulnerable to being affected by poor posture. The discs that give support to your spine can even become compromised. When you are maintaining correct posture these same discs are not as prone to injury or malfunction. If you have had improper posture for a long period of time, your spine will experience structural changes. These changes can lead to a variety of problems in the joints, muscles, and discs of the back and neck. In some cases, blood flow to your spine can even be affected. To prevent these types of issues, it is important to take proper care of your spine by maintaining correct posture and body mechanics. You will need to learn how to stand, sit, bend, and lie down in ways that are healthy for your spine. Once you learn how to maintain correct posture, these movements will soon become automatic. The therapists at South Toledo Physical Therapy will teach you how to correct your posture which will help eliminate any current or future back or neck pain. Patient Success Spotlight “I came in with low back pain so severe, that I could not drive a car or get any meaningful sleep. After just a couple weeks, my pain significantly decreased and I was able to drive and get a good night’s sleep! I am now able to take walk for almost a mile without having pain!” - Matt W. I am now able to take a walk for almost a mile!
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