Attack the Source of Your Pain with Postural Therapy

When it comes to finding relief from chronic pain, the most beneficial treatment plans involve attacking the source of the pain rather than masking the symptoms. Postural therapy is a way to correct posture and restore balance without having to undergo surgery or other painful treatments. Treating conditions like back pain, hip pain, jaw pain, and more — postural therapy has many benefits. If you want to know more, keep reading! 

Knowing Good Posture

When you’ve sat at a desk for too long, you’ve probably noticed you slouched over a bit over time. However, good posture goes further than just making sure you’re sitting up straight. Having good posture will help ensure your long-term health, allowing you to move your body how it’s supposed to move, stop pain from developing, and will help you prevent injuries and other health problems that bad posture can cause. 

MedlinePlus breaks down posture into two groups:

• Dynamic Posture: this is how you hold yourself when you’re moving. Such as when you are exercising, walking, running, or bending over to pick something up off the ground. 
• Static Posture: which is how you hold yourself when you’re not moving. Such as when you are sitting, standing, or sleeping. 

No matter the type of posture, dynamic or static, it’s important to pay attention to how you’re holding yourself and make sure you’re maintaining a healthy stance. Your posture depends on the position of your spine. The spine, MedlinePlus details, has three natural curves: at the neck, mid back, and low back. These curves should be maintained with correct posture, but your posture shouldn’t deepen the curves. Your body should be in line: your head above your shoulders, your shoulders above your hips, and so on. 

Effects of Bad Posture 

Bad posture can come with effects that can cause pain and discomfort. The most common side effect of bad posture is back pain. The back is made up of everything from bones, muscles, nerves, to ligaments, tendons, and other types of tissue. Without the spine and the structures that help support it, you wouldn’t sit, stand, or move like a body should be able to do. Many people don’t think about caring for their spinal health until they’re already in pain, which leads to many people relying on strong medications and even surgery for pain relief. Back pain can be presented in many different symptoms, like:

• Inflammation of the lower back, neck, or mid back 
• Stiffness in the muscles and spine
• Pops, cracks, and other noises when you move after being at rest
• Pain that is worse after sitting, standing, or sleeping 
• Worsened pain after exercise
• Spasms throughout the back
• Numbness 

Additionally, poor posture can also cause neck, shoulder, and other bodily pains. Other signs that you have poor posture can include:

• Forward head carriage
• Slumped shoulders
• Hunch back
• Anterior pelvic tilt
• Posterior pelvic tilt
• Shoulder tilt
• Flat feet

Postural Therapy for Poor Posture

Your body can easily be thrown out of balance by working a desk job, driving a long commute, exercising, injury, and more. All of these things can cause poor posture, which then can cause the pain and symptoms mentioned above. 

Postural therapy is a treatment that combines technology with physical therapy to get your back in alignment and correct your posture. At Texas Spine and Sports Therapy, when you receive a treatment plan that includes postural therapy you’ll be given gentle exercises and stretches that will help align your spine and correct your posture. 

Popsugar further explains that postural therapy is a good way to reset your body so it functions optimally, no matter if you’ve experienced an injury or not. The spine can become misaligned easily just by sitting down for too long or by picking something up wrong. Even if you don’t have back pain, postural therapy can help you maintain your spinal health so you can prevent any future injury or pain. 

Get Help with Texas Spine and Sports Therapy 

If you have back, shoulder, or neck pain — or even if you don’t have pain at all — and want to correct your posture, contact our team at Texas Spine and Sports Therapy today. This holistic healthcare treatment could prevent your need to rely on painkillers or resort to painful surgeries that have a significant amount of downtime. Our office also has a wide range of services, so if you don’t believe postural therapy is what is right for you, we’ll have something that will work for you, your condition, and your pain. Call today: (512)-806-0015.