Posture Supports - Why They Don't Work
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Posture supports can be found in many places now. Many people are choosing to use them, thinking they will improve their posture. The truth is, they don't. They do have their place, but they don't do anything to improve your posture.
Many of us have poor posture after years of slumping in our chairs. A lot of the furniture that is popular today encourages slumping instead of good posture. After so many years, our bodies have adapted to our new slumped shapes. Now that you want to have good posture, it is nowhere to be found. You may go online in search of things to help you learn to improve your posture. What you find are many sites selling posture supports. Great! Just strap one on or use one with your chair and you'll be standing proud! Wrong.
Suppose you buy that posture support and decide to wear it all day long. Let's say your back is at 100% strength when you do so. The support adds another 10% to your strength. You feel great. Your back feels perfect and supported. Your muscles are relaxed and don't need to do a lick of work all day long.
After a few days of this vacation, your back muscles have lost some strength. You may not notice it yet, because that posture support makes you feel great! After a few months, your back muscles are all soft from letting the support do all the work. Now, even with the support, your back hurts! Why did this happen?
In order to keep your muscles strong, your muscles need to work. By letting them have all that time off, they have atrophied to a certain extent. They have lost muscle mass, and they just tire out much faster. It is time to take that support off and make your muscles work again. After several months of making your back muscles work to support you, they are stronger. Are they where they were when you started? Maybe. Even to get them to improve a little bit takes time dedicated to strengthening exercises and rehabilitation. Are you doing any of that?
There are some circumstances when a posture support is warranted. If you have had an injury and your back is in great pain, such as a herniated disc or other issue, then you should probably use a support for awhile. But that isn't the end of it. Even with a medical excuse for using the support, once you've had the issue addressed, you need to deal with the additional issue of a weakened back. You may need chiropractic adjustments, some resting time, and some rehabilitation exercises. The support is only there for when you need it. Kind of like how a person with a broken bone wears a cast until the bone is healed. After that, to build up strength in those muscles again, they must do rehabilitation exercises to get them back into shape.
If you truly want to fix your posture, you'll need to do exercises to work on your back muscles and your posture. Evaluate what you do every day that contributes to your bad posture. Be dedicated to making progress.
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