Total Fitness: Fitness, Nutrition, and Healing
Poor Posture Equals Pain
Even just a forward head posture can contribute to neck and upper back pain, and can also cause the spinal curvatures to change in the lumbar or lower region of your spine. This also changes the angle your pelvis tilts at, leading to increased back pain and stability problems with your hips, knees and ankles. Why? Simply because, generally speaking, your muscles are pulled too tight, others become too loose, and some take over and do too much work, all of which pull your joints out of alignment. Most people are walking around with joints out of optimal alignment, seriously predisposing them to a greater risk of injury and increased recovery time. This can happen doing something as mundane as lifting a heavy box overhead onto a shelf, or picking up a weighty laundry basket. It is also why no matter how many times you go back to the chiropractor or osteopath, the joint just seems to keep coming out of alignment, causing you pain.
