Posture: The Good, The Bad, and How To Fix It

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As your local Brooklyn chiropractor, we are big supporters of proper posture. In fact, your posture has a huge impact on your overall health and wellness. Here’s how both good and bad posture can affect your health and how chiropractic can help.

The Negative Effects of Bad Posture

Habitually bad posture can lead to a variety of health issues that can impact your overall wellness and quality of life. Some of these issues are:

Spinal Misalignments: The spine is the foundation of all communication within the body. When your spine is out of alignment, it can impact areas all over the body and contribute to general discomfort, pain, sore muscles, headaches, and more.

Digestive Issues: People are often shocked to hear poor posture can impact your digestion, but the body’s shape is designed to digest food. When your posture is out of line, it makes it more difficult for the digestive system to operate at its best.

Lung Problems: Some long-term effects of poor posture include weakened cognitive performance and lung maladies. Slouching for hours every day can impair the function of the lungs which need an aligned spine to function properly.

How Good Posture Benefits Your Health

Good posture not only leads to a boost in confidence and appearance, but it also helps improve your overall health and wellness including:

  • Reduced stress on ligaments
  • Proper alignment of joints and bones
  • Less risk of back injury
  • Conservation of more energy
  • Improved digestion
  • Reduced wear on the joints and muscles

Your posture is ultimately more than how you carry yourself and the consequences of both poor and good posture have lasting effects on your health.

How Williamsburg Chiropractic Can Help

There are a lot of contributing factors to bad posture including weight gain, stress, pregnancy, tight muscles, injuries, low confidence, and more. Fortunately, your local Williamsburg Chiropractor can help.

Whether you are experiencing back, neck, or shoulder pain or just want to fix your posture, getting care is easy. Just click here to request an appointment.

April 20, 2021
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Posture: The Good, The Bad, and How To Fix It

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