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Improving your posture is vital if you want your spine and nervous system to be working optimally. Good posture, body alignment, and body movement feed the brain a healthy dose of nerve signals so the brain can send a healthy dose of nerve signals back to the body to coordinate proper function. Some of these functions include movements, muscle strength, pain sensations, healing, thoughts, perceptions, heartbeat, and digestion.
Furthermore, if you improve your posture, the joints in your spine and extremities will bear weight more equally. In turn, this will allow you to have better flexibility, movement, and less stress on your joints.
The following articles explain how you can improve your posture from treatments like chiropractic care and lifestyle strategies like exercise.
You might be familiar with rubbing your neck and shoulders after long hours on your computer or on your smartphone. Tech neck is a term used to describe the forward posture of the neck and injuries associated with prolonged computer and mobile device use. Neck pain, headaches, sore thumbs, and wrists seems like obvious consequences of prolonged smartphone and computer use. However, there are other serious underlying health problems that could be associated with tech neck. … [Read more...]
Do you feel slouched over at your desk? Sitting, hunched over all day at your desk, is giving you low back pain or neck pain. Furthermore, you’re exhausted by mid-afternoon and you're unproductive. Is there anything you can do can do to help your posture and back pain? Try a standing desk to improve your posture. Effects of prolonged sitting on your spine and posture Sitting for prolonged periods of time at work is a major risk factor for causing low back pain and neck pain. (1, … [Read more...]
Do you get recurring low back pain despite getting regular chiropractic adjustments? Do you feel your alignment or posture goes off frequently? Do your feet or knees hurt? The reason you could be having these problems is the arches in your feet could be dropping too much. In other words, you could be getting flat feet. Flat feet are best corrected with custom foot orthotics. Edmonton chiropractor, Dr. Dean Collins, provides custom foot orthotics in Edmonton. In this article, Dr. Collins … [Read more...]
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