Bending your neck forward all day can effect your entire posture. Being hunched over a keyboard struggling to look at a monitor is simply not good for your overall health, not just your musculoskeletal system.
Our brains require constant stimulus and the only constant stimulus on earth is gravity. We evolved in earth’s gravitational field. Our nerves through evolution noticed this thing pushing down on them and decided to adapt to it. We have special nerves in our body that can turn that pressure into electricity. That electricity is used to recharge our battery/aka brain.
A back ache is usually how I meet people/patients and I can talk about health all day to them, but when they are in pain, they are not appreciating any of that. That is why I make people read my blogs but this blog is the shortened version and there is much more information on the neurology of posture on a dedicated page on my website itself and not my blog.
Sitting all day weakens muscles and weak muscles hurt. But when they go into spasm from total over use over many years, they become disabling. Good posture could help prevent what I call a back attack, but sometimes they occur for no apparent reason at all.
Many of my patients see me regularly(typically monthly) to help them manage their posture. Why do they need my help? Because deep postural muscles that oppose gravity allowing us to stand up straight are not voluntary muscles like the ones in your arms and legs. These muscles are under control of your automatic pilot that fights gravity called your cerebellum and that is your subconscious. When a chiropractor is adjusting those spinal joints that are innervated with the largest, fastest, most powerful nerves in your body, they are strongly affecting the subconscious part of your brain where all the mechanisms for health are located.
I don’t know about now, but when I was in grammar school our teachers told us to sit up straight for a reason, even if they didn’t know the reason. To learn more about that reason see the page on my website dedicated to this topic.
