Fix Your Posture

Fix Your Posture

Why should you fix your posture?

If you look like a loser, people will treat you like a loser. So why not you start posing like a king, but fitting all types of soothing adjectives won't help you achieve the ideal look, will it?

Many of us have rounded shoulders and shaggy back, most of which comes from our daily course of work and our habitual postural changes. 

Fixing your posture can do wonders for you, mainly by reducing the consistent backpain and also by an appealing visual look. 

Steps to fix your posture

1. Thrust the vertex of skull upwards towards ceiling. It will straighten your upper back.
2. Keep your head straight with eyes looking forward.
3. Assume an imaginary vertical line passing through the hip joint and the skull.
4. When using the electrical appliances, bring the screens parallel to eye level.
5. Place your laptop and mobile phones 15° below the eye level.
6. Excessive flexion will cause habitual changes in the muscles involved and may cause tightness. It may also cause forward head posture or 'Nerd Neck'.
7. Slightly externally rotated shoulders help in achieving ideal arm posture and reduces the risk of shoulder impingment syndrome often caused due to shoulder internal rotation.
8. Internal rotation often caused rotator cuff tendonitis which is felt as an impingement in the respective area.
9. Arms should be relaxed and by the side.
10. Elbows should be in slight flexion.
11. When using keyboards, maintain a neutral wrist posture.
12. The weight of the body should be placed directly above the legs, so the position of hips is an important factor in this regard. 
13. Most people face an anterior pelvic tilt which causes lower backpain. You can read about APT here, Anterior Pelvic Tilt: Treatment and Prevention
14. When you stand, your ankles should be directly below your hips with your knees slightly bent. 
15. Your pelvis will automatically straighten as you align the rest of your body.
16. Place equal weight on the base of foot and brace your arches. Unequal distribution of weight increases stress on the intrinsic muscles of the foot.