How does poor posture affect your appearance?

While most people are aware of the importance of having good posture. You would be surprised at how many poor posture habits you are doing daily! 

As we get older, these bad habits such as slouching, and inactivity cause the spine to shift out of alignment, muscle fatigue, and tension that ultimately lead to poor posture. 

Poor posture is the loss of the natural spinal curves leading to rounded shoulders, a forward head posture leading to that hump at the base of your neck, and a potbelly. Along with those ‘normal’ aches and pains, loss of flexibility, and the general dysfunction poor posture can cause. 

Ultimately when you have poor posture, you look and probably feel older! When you have good posture, you walk with more ease and grace, you look taller, slender, more confident, happier, and healthier. 

Most people still do many things during day-to-day life that are bad for their posture without even knowing it, which over time pushes bones out of alignment in a direction the body cannot self-correct. That is why you get stuck there and it is difficult to maintain good posture especially while sitting.  

Having good posture is not just about sitting or standing upright but it involves all parts of your body from your head posture to your feet. 

My top tips to avoid creating poor posture:

• Get adjusted – the body is amazing at healing and correcting itself where possible. However, sometimes it needs a helping hand. If your posture is sucked forward, then there is no muscle that exists to pull it backward. 
• Always sit with your knees below your hips. Sitting with your knees above your hips will create slouched posture.
• Stop looking down at your phone or laptop!  Your head weighs around 5kg. So, every time you are looking down for an extended period of time you are literally pulling your head forward. This will cause extra weight and stress on all your muscles joints and nerves, especially in your neck and upper back. 

Having good posture is more aesthetically attractive, but it is also important for your overall health and wellbeing, keeping you pain-free and as active as possible as you get older.  

At Posture and Wellness, we will make sure we go through all the advice you need on the right things to do for good posture from checking you have the right shoes, sleeping position, and pillow height, as well as making sure you know the things to avoid that create bad posture.

If you need any advice on these things, please do ask when you’re in the office or book a free discovery call.

Have an amazing week.

Contact Bianca Downey for more information: info@postureandwellness.co.uk

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