Hello we are Backpro Clinic. We have a lot of stories we want to share, but we cannot figure out how to deliver my first story. We want to start with the subject that most patients are curious about; the story about correct posture. In this issue, we will deal with basic definitions of postures, basic postures, and good and bad postures.
1. Posture refers to the position of the body in a moment and refers to the uniform shape and alignment that various body organs exhibit to counteract gravity pulling down when sitting or lying down. These parts of the body should be aligned in a uniform pattern on top of each other with a vertical line. For example, in a standing posture, a variety of joints such as head, shoulder, vertebra, hip, knee, and ankle joints are biologically connected to maintain the balance of the moment.
2. Correct posture can be said to be the right posture at one moment in which the joints constituting the are in the most stress-free position. In the same way, bad posture refers to the position of the body, which increases the stress on the body’s various components, the body’s joints that maintain the moment itself. Therefore, the right posture means that the muscles should be able to maintain their postures while achieving maximum efficiency using the least energy. Therefore, it can be said that it is possible to perform work for a longer period with minimum fatigue.
2.2 The spine plays an important role in maintaining the posture. To maintain this, the stress on the ligaments surrounding the spine should be kept to a minimum, and this effective posture can minimize the possibility of injury.
3. Periodic cycling of bad postures cause abnormal motion patterns, which create excessive muscle activity and create scars between the muscle fibers. In order to heal these wounds, the body itself, through the process of “inflammation,” attempts to regenerate it while suppressing cell damage and removing scarred muscle fibers. This inflammation leads to adhesion between the muscle and surrounding muscles, or the surrounding fascia, which again creates abnormal movements of the muscles and prevents them from producing effective movement within the joints. This leads to changes in the sensitivity of the muscle activity control systems (muscle spindle and / or Golgi tendon organ), causing pain in the body itself. This pain again leads a periodic cycle of pain and bad posture. From a functional point of view, these adhesions or modified control systems of my fibers can lead to tissue extensibility and / or joint mobility dysfunction, which is also a major cause of sustained pain.
4. Before you choose a method of correcting bad posture, there are many ways you must know. Most commonly, “To fix a bad posture, both feet must touch the ground when you are sitting, and your knees should remain relaxed on the same horizontal line as the hip joint. Shoulders should be relaxed and arms should be placed parallel to the ground”. However, if you are trying to correct a bad posture, whether it is correcting movement, correcting the imbalance of the muscle itself, or improving the efficiency of performance to prevent and create injury by specializing each organ of the musculoskeletal system And so on, for each purpose. The difference between these goals determines who to meet and how to do the posture correction. So once you have decided which position you want to correct for, you might want to look for an expert to help you with that. In New Zealand, each professional has a Scope of Practice that gives them the authority they need. It is like saying that having this authority is responsible for the consequences of changes in the body. Therefore, it is a good idea to meet with a professional who has a Scope of Practice for your posture correction and get advice. In the next issue, we will start with step by step bad posture correction step by step, and understanding of your body.
