Reverse Bad Posture in 15 Minutes

Download or read book Reverse Bad Posture in 15 Minutes written by Morgan Sutherland and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-04-12 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neglected postures, such as rounding your low back while sitting in front of the computer, standing for hours stooped over, sleeping improperly, and lifting poorly, can all lead to chronic back pain. A basic remedy to sitting all day is to simply get up! Frequently getting up from a seated position and doing specific, quick, and easy realignment exercises can reeducate your muscles. In today's culture, everyone seems to be constantly plugged into an electronic device. Sedentary lifestyles result in hours spent with your body in a human question mark-head forward and shoulders rounding. Text Neck This term has been used to describe the repetitive-use injury that occurs to your upper back, neck muscles, forearms, wrists, and hands caused by a combination of poor posture, excessive texting, and smartphone use. A common Text Neck symptom is a crick in the neck and upper shoulders. This can develop from over-stressing your neck muscles from excessive texting, awkward sleep positions, harshly turning your head during exercise, and from clocking hours of poor posture hunched over your desk. Did You Know? For every 1 inch the head moves forward, the weight of the head increases 10 pounds. The average head weighs approximately 11 pounds. When a head is held forward by 3 inches, it causes about 43 pounds of pressure on the neck and upper back muscles. That's a potential 43-pound headache. Yikes! If you have Text Neck, then it's also likely that you have rounded shoulders, which cause your upper back muscles to overstretch and tighten the chest muscles. This posture can potentially compress the brachial plexus, which can lead to a number of problems, ranging from numbness in the hands to thoracic outlet syndrome or carpal tunnel-like symptoms. The 20 exercises in this book are designed to fix forward head posture, rounded shoulders, and hunched back posture in just 15 minutes per day.