Incorrect Posture: How to Correct Spinal and Leg Misalignments The Importance of Posture for Health

Incorrect Posture: How to Correct Poor Position of the Spine and Legs
The Importance of Posture for Health

Everything in the human body is interconnected. Quite often, deterioration in health occurs due to failure to maintain correct posture.

The human body, its organs, and their relative positions must be correctly oriented in space and relative to each other. This function in the human body is performed by the spinal column, pelvis and legs. Correct orientation allows the human body to interact normally in energy flows between the earth's surface and the atmosphere. The correct position of the legs and spinal column allows the normal performance of spring functions when the body moves along the surface of the earth. Otherwise, shocks and vibrations that occur during the movement of the body lead to destructive consequences for cartilage tissue.

Correct posture, which depends on the legs and spinal column, allows the internal organs to be positioned normally relative to each other, creates the correct inertial forces on them when moving (for example, pumping blood up through the veins, moving feces down), which contributes to their normal functioning. This alone allows the organs to work normally, not to press on each other, not to cause stagnation and other actions that negatively affect the functioning of the body.

Many women do not understand how important correct posture is for health, and continue to wear high-heeled shoes, move incorrectly, hunch over while standing or sitting, and at the same time complain about their health. All their treatment and health activities are canceled out by incorrect posture.

Posture is associated with the state of the muscular system, that is, with the degree of development of the muscles of the neck, back, chest, abdomen and lower extremities, as well as with the functionality of the muscles, its ability to long-term static tension. Posture is influenced by the elastic properties of the intervertebral discs, cartilaginous and connective tissue formations of the joints of the spine (this, in turn, is associated with the mobility of the spine), as well as the pelvis and lower extremities. The shape of the foot and leg as a whole plays an important role.

HUMAN POSTURE TEST

Stand with your back close to a cabinet or wall. Close your feet, look straight ahead (your head should touch the wall or cabinet). Hands down at the sides. If your palm does not pass between the lower back and the wall, then your posture is good; otherwise, the abdominal muscles are weak and the stomach pulls the spine forward (lordosis).

With correct posture, the head and torso are on the same vertical, the shoulders are turned, slightly lowered and at the same level, the relief of the neck (from the tragus of the ear to the edge of the shoulders) is symmetrical on both sides, the shoulder blades do not protrude, the physiological curvature of the spine is normally expressed, the chest is raised ( slightly “protruded”), the stomach is retracted, the legs are straightened at the knee and hip joints, the foot is without deformities, with a clearly visible notch on the side of the inner arch of the foot.

When assessing posture, look at:

1. on the position of the head - whether it is on the same vertical line with the body, leaned forward or tilted to the side (to the right or left);
2. on the relief of the neck - the line from the tragus of the ear to the edge of the shoulder is equally curved on both sides or one side is longer than the other;
3. on the shoulders - at the same level or one shoulder is raised and the other is lowered; the shoulders are spread out or leaned forward, and if they are thrown, then equally or one more than the other (such asymmetry often occurs in athletes - throwers, fencers, boxers, etc.;
4. on the shoulder blades - at the same level or one higher; whether they perform, and if they perform, then equally or one more;
5. on the spine - does it have normal physiological curves or are there cervical and lumbar lordosis (convexity forward), thoracic and sacrococcygeal kyphosis (convexity backward).

The natural curves of the spine perform