quit slouching? Mom was right. We now live in a society where a large portion of the population sits in front of a computer monitor, spends too much time behind the wheel of a car or carries around an old injury that was never correctly rehabbed, e.g. an old football injury or skiing accident. Bad posture can also be genetic.
Life long habits of improper posture create 'postural distortions' and in the long run can cause debilitating and agonizing pain. Eventually, over time, everyone develops an issue, no matter how major or minor. When this occurs,
the body compensates by developing the muscles to counteract the distortion. This could happen to a woman just from carrying around a growing baby for years in the same arm. My advice: alternate arms whenever possible.
Look in the mirror. Does one shoulder sit higher than the other? Take note of your pelvis. Is it rotated to the right or left or tilted at an angle? An obvious effect of this can be one leg being longer than the other. When you observe your self from the side, are your shoulders rounded? Do your ears sit over your shoulders or are they forward of them?
Injured and overworked muscles in the legs can actually tighten and pull the pelvis out of alignment, wreaking all kinds of havoc on typical areas such as the back, knees and feet.
At the very least, massage can help most people find relief from the effects of theses conditions. But in conjunction with consistent work, proper adjustments by a professional chiropractor or physical therapist, exercise and stretching (like yoga) a lot of theses conditions can be reversed.
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