Posture and Pain:
The Commonly Misunderstood
And Mistreated Problem

What If The Cause Of Your Pain Is NOT Because Of Your Age
... Or Your Sport ... Or Something You’re “Doing Wrong”?

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Posture and pain often go hand in hand because when your posture becomes misaligned, pain is often the result. Even if no pain is experienced, some form of movement limitation is virtually guaranteed.

Why?

Well, the muscles in your body work in pairs: in simple terms, some muscles pull your bones in one direction while muscles on the opposite side pull the same bones in the opposite direction.

Each of your muscles is designed to maintain a certain length and a certain tension. When the length and tension relationships are maintained, you will undoubtedly have good alignment and, more important, you will undoubtedly be pain free.

Alignment is another way of saying ‘posture’, and as we’ve already covered, posture and pain very often go hand in hand, or to be more precise, ‘compromised posture’ and pain often go hand in hand.guy wires Posture and Pain

If you’re in pain, you may have up until now blamed all kinds of things for that pain. Over the years, I’ve heard all kinds of reasons from people as to why they think they might be in pain, including:

  • It’s because I like to run / jog
  • It’s because I play golf
  • It’s because of my mattress
  • My pillow is too firm / too soft

Now while all of these things, and many more besides, may trigger problems or make existing problems worse, they are almost certainly not the cause of your problems.

‘Causation and correlation’ are often used interchangeably, but they are very different things, which we’ll look at as we continue.

Having worked in this field for almost a decade now, as a practitioner of The Egoscue Method and the Muscle Balance and Function system, as well as drawing on my training in many other related areas, I have seen time and time again that there is another reason for experiencing pain.

Restore Function To Improve Your Posture And Pain

When proper function is restored to a person’s muscles and a process of reintegration between the muscles and nervous system takes place, the pain goes and the person gets back to living their life without pain.

Imbalances from front to back and from left to right in your muscles, as well as a lack of proper communication between your nervous system and those muscles, sets up a process of compensation.

If you’ve ever had to cover for someone else at work and still do your job at the same time, then you’ll know that that can only last for so long before your particular job, as well as the person’s that you’re covering for, becomes inefficient and tiring.

And so it is with your muscles.

When it comes to your posture and pain, however, you can do something about it and it doesn’t involve surgery, drugs or manipulation.

Whether you have just one symptom or several, it is more than likely that the underlying cause for all of them is the same thing.

Treat the underlying root cause instead of chasing the symptoms, and the symptoms naturally take care of themselves.

Posture and Pain Symptoms You Might Experience

Here’s a list of symptoms that are often brought about by a lack of proper function and communication in the muscular and nervous systems:

  • Shoulder Pain – Including:
    • Rotator Cuff Injuries
    • Frozen Shoulder
    • Arthritis
    • Limited Range of Motion Without Pain
    • Muscle Strains In & Around The Shoulder
    • Limited Ability To Lift Arms
    • Stiffness
    • Difficulty Sleeping On Affected Side
  • Elbow Pain – Including:
    • Tennis Elbow
    • Golfers Elbow
    • Carpal Tunnel
    • Joint Pain
    • Biceps/Triceps Pain
    • Thumb Pain Muscle Soreness
    • Cramping Hands
    • Arthritis
  • Wrist & Hand Pain – Including:
    • Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS)
    • The same symptoms as above for elbow pain
  • Hip Pain & Groin Pain – Including:
    • Arthritic hip
    • Degenerative hip
    • Joint pain
    • Groin tightness
    • Burning in hip and into leg
    • Muscle soreness
    • Muscle strains in & around the hip
    • Limping & limited inability to walk, squat or move properly
  • Back Pain – Including:
    • Pain in the area
    • Stiffness
    • Spasm
    • Stabbing sensation
    • Limited, or difficult, movement
    • Difficulty sitting or standing up
    • Burning or numbing sensations in legs
    • Arthritis
    • Difficulty sleeping
    • Difficulty breathing
  • Neck Pain – Including:
    • Pain in and around the neck
    • Limited Range of Motion To One Or Both Sides
    • Burning sensations into arms and hands
    • Tight shoulder muscles
    • Disc herniations
    • Degenerative disc disorder (DDD)
    • Headaches
    • Osteoporosis
    • Difficulty lifting items
  • Knee Pain – Including:
    • “Runner’s knee”
    • Arthritic knees
    • Ligament sprains
    • Meniscus damage
    • Patella pain
    • Water on the knee
    • Osgood-Schlatter
    • Baker’s cyst
  • Ankle & Foot Pain – Including:
    • Bunions
    • Hard skin
    • Plantar fasciitis
    • Joint pain
    • Heel pain
    • Tarsal tunnel
    • Shin splints and other muscle strains in calf & shin
    • Flat feet
  • Recurring Headaches/Migraines – Including:
    • Increased pressure in areas around head
    • Impaired vision
    • Dizziness
    • Light-sensitivity
    • Sound-sensitivity
    • Migraine
    • Gastrointestinal disturbances

Let’s look a little closer at what posture is exactly and how its misalignment can cause all of these symptoms.

What Is Posture (and What Is A Good Definition of Posture)? >>>>

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