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❗️POSTURE CORRECTION❗️
Our posture, or the position we put ourselves into while moving and using our bodies, has a direct influence on what structures are being loaded up; ligaments, discs, joint spaces, muscles, tendons etc etc.
The first step to eliminating pain is understanding how we are currently using and moving our bodies, versus what SHOULD be happening.
For example, here we have Brody who has a tendency to load up into his lower back by overarching/overextending his lumbar spine. Our first step in correcting this is teaching him how to control his spine into different positions.
In the first photo, Brody was told to stand relatively relaxed, but also maintain what he thought would be a good upright posture. Immediately we see what we call a “sway back” posture. This is where the hips shift forwards, increasing loads into the lower back, and then compensating by having an increase in thoracic, or midback, kyphosis/rounding.
We taught Brody how to change his posture, in this case by shifting his hips slightly backwards, posteriorly tilting his pelvis, and extending through his midback to correct the thoracic kyphosis/rounding. This has been integral in not only helping with his low back pain, but also in being the base building block to relearning proper hinge patterning technique, and then progressing into deadlifting, WITHOUT PAIN.
Small changes in movement over time, create big changes in function and pain.
How’s your posture??