I need help with posture....please!!!?!
Question: My back hurts a lot and my mom always tells me to straighten my back up. I need to sit and walk with good posture but I am having a hard time doin g it. I will for a few minutes but it seems like it hurts more when I do use good posture. Maybe I am not doing it correctly. I think sometimes it feels as if I am pushing out my chest instead of pulling my shoulders back. Can someone explain or give me some websites where I can see visuals on correct posture. Thank you!!
Answers: My back hurts a lot and my mom always tells me to straighten my back up. I need to sit and walk with good posture but I am having a hard time doin g it. I will for a few minutes but it seems like it hurts more when I do use good posture. Maybe I am not doing it correctly. I think sometimes it feels as if I am pushing out my chest instead of pulling my shoulders back. Can someone explain or give me some websites where I can see visuals on correct posture. Thank you!!
It's something that needs a lot of conscious effort to begin with, but as you do it more and more, it will begin to come naturally. When standing, try to imagine there's a piece of string coming out of the top of your head, pulling you gently upwards off the floor. Your back should be in a relaxed 'S' shape, shoulders not forced back as if you're in the army, but not hunched forward. Try standing with your back against a wall: you should find that your bottom, shoulder blades and back of you head touch the wall, and you can put one hand between your lower back and the wall. Your chest should be proud, but again not puffed out like a sergeant major. When sitting, the overwhelming urge is to hunch your shoulders forward, particularly when working at a desk. Try to resist this (rearrange the height of your chair, desk etc if necessary). Your feet should be flat on the floor. Basically, when you've got a good posture, it will feel very comfortable naturally, and requires significantly less effort to maintain long term. Plus, it makes you instantly look about 5kg lighter and more confident. Well worth practising.
You should see a doctor. I was like you over sixty years ago. Then all too late I found it was scoliosis. There was not a great deal that they could do in those days, and it may be no better now, but at least you will know for sure, and that should at least give you some peace from nagging.