Your Posture is a Sign of Daily Balance
Maintaining a healthy postural habit is a sign of health in the broadest sense of the word. Every day you mechanically gain your own postural habits. Many of them are harmful to your spine, and generally these are harmful to the body because a subluxation affects not only the vertebrae but the entire body, including organs. Civilization has left people "chained" to sedentary living, where the chair is the main character of their story. You should not be tied to a chair, no matter what your work or lifestyle is. Dr. Manfred Alkhas (San Jose) tells his patients to get up and move around periodically to keep the muscles and blood flow working properly.
People are cleverly designed to be on the move during the day and then rest at night. However, clerical careers, computers, car trips, they all enslave people to a sitting position for hours each day. This even includes eating and watching TV too! This, coupled with stress, which is tensing muscles, ends up putting pressure on the vertebrae, causing discomfort in the best case, or causing displacement of those delicate bones along the nerves that make up the backbone of the functioning of your entire body.
Sitting too long affects blood circulation, especially in the legs. No movement means your body will not let you go and come as you please, as the blood flow cannot fulfill its mission the way it should. The spine should be straight, as it is often battered by bad habits, tilting it either forward or backward. And if you add the fact that a computer screen or TV is not in front of you, but on the side, it also produces a forced tension in your neck and your body suffers for it.
On the other hand, it is not advisable to lie down on the couch as you will then promote bad postural habits and, as a result, poor posture is obtained. A correct sitting position is maintaining the symmetry of the pelvis, shoulders and neck. If you change your postural habits and adjust as recommended, you help your spine and nervous system to keep their balance. Click here to schedule Manfred Alkhas appointments.
