Restorative posture therapy must be focused on teaching and correcting bad postural habits to ease associated pain, avoid risking an injury and enhance movement. It seeks to accomplish the goal by restoring the proper alignment, flexibility, coordination, as well as strength through some identified exercises, stretches, and body awareness strategies.
Procedural Posture re-education is vital in order to improve the quality of life, reduce the risks of chronic disease, and prevent posture-related health problems.
The natural position for those muscles, joints and ligaments are shifted out when you maintain bad posture. The consequences of these over time are muscle pains, headaches, fatigue, reduced mobility, reduced circulation, neurological problems as well as more injuries to the musculoskeletal system. Posture correction literally re-aligns the body structures making them work more efficiently than they used to.
Components of Posture Reeducation
Posture retraining programs are tailored to each person but commonly involve:
Postural Assessment: The evaluation of current posture issues like rounded shoulders, forward head, swayback, etc. determines what to focus on and also helps in better posture training.
Body Awareness: As poor posture is developed so does habit of bad posture, so, it is crucial to learn how to pick up such habits and consciously correct them to re-educate your body. Levels of awareness are achieved with and without mirrors and feedback.
Stretching and Strengthening: With the tight muscles pulling body parts out of alignment and the weak muscles giving bad posture, it is not surprising that back pain becomes an inevitable problem. The athlete performs stretches because these lengthen tightened muscles and the athlete also does strengthening exercises to fill in the weak spots.
Exercise: Re-positioning exercises such as stretches, strengthening and coordination of the muscles are inevitably very positive and helpful. The exercises that help with this commonly involve opening the chest, retracting the shoulder blades and stabilizing the center of your torso as a core.
Ergonomic Modifications: Daily changing positions for sitting, standing, sleeping, and so forth to be based on a revision less postural correction principles aid to reinforce good posture. For instance, special support chairs, table settings, beds and so on may help.
Lifestyle Factors: Decreasing the factors that bring about the risks, such as high heel use and always straining one side by carrying heavy bags. Learning to have good habits, using the right educational posture, eschews future health problems.
Understand that there will be instances when the process of re-learning posture will be tedious. The pull of habitual twisting and repetitive postures can be hard to unlearn. However, posture correction can take pressure off the back, reduce joints pain, and allow normal movement thereby leading to overall health. A physical therapist or a specialist in posture should be consulted in order to be able to create the correct remediation program for your particular needs.