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Your Body's Posture---Get It Corrected, Part 1 by Mark D. Healthy Living Professional Posted Tue 26 Aug 2008 4:34pm Starting today, I will begin a four part series about your body's posture. For your body to reach optimal strength, flexibility, balance and power, you must correct your postural imbalances and dysfunctions as much as possible. Let's start by talking about correct body posture. I will write about postural imbalances and postural distortion patterns Read on »
Your Body's Posture---Get It Corrected, Part 4 by Mark D. Healthy Living Professional Posted Tue 26 Aug 2008 4:34pm In the final part(4) of this series, I will detail how to correct postural distortions. Common postural distortions are: 1. Lumbo-Pelvic-Hip Postural Distortion - This distortion causes you to have increased lumbar lordosis and an anterior pelvic tilt as shown below. Lumbo-Pelvic-Hip postural distortions are characterized Read on »
Your Body's Posture---Get It Corrected, Part 3 by Mark D. Healthy Living Professional Posted Tue 26 Aug 2008 4:34pm ), functional efficiency is achieved. Functional efficiency prevents over-training, injuries and lackluster performance. The kinetic chain can not have functional efficiency when postural... while the prime movers and synergists perform functional movements. 5. Neutralizers - These muscles counteract the unwanted action of other muscles. Postural Read on »
Your Body's Posture---Get It Corrected, Part 2 by Mark D. Healthy Living Professional Posted Wed 19 Mar 2008 6:17pm The cumulative injury cycle and postural distortion patterns are real problems that everyone has to deal with at some point. As was stated in Part 1 of this series, you must correct your postural imbalances and dysfunctions as much as possible to enable your body to reach optimal strength, flexibility, balance and power. I also wrote that if one Read on »
Your Body's Posture---Get It Corrected, Part 3 by Mark D. Healthy Living Professional Posted Thu 20 Mar 2008 3:05pm postural dysfunctions are present. When muscles are operating efficiently, they work together to reduce force, stabilize force and produce force in all 3 planes of motion. 1... movements. 5. Neutralizers - These muscles counteract the unwanted action of other muscles. Postural dysfunctions are caused when the kinetic chain is out of line. When Read on »
The Forward Posture, Forward Bend Posture, Hands-and-Feet Posture (Padahastasana) by Jennifer D. Healthy Living Professional Posted Mon 03 Nov 2008 9:02pm 1 Comment We will describe this posture in a modified manner incorporating visualization and relaxation. Executing yoga postures are like meditation. If you execute it with full awareness, relaxation and visualization, you can get the maximum benefit out of it Forward Bend Posture Technique Breathe normally as you stand with feet Read on »
Prone Cobra | Posture Exercise | Improve Posture Training by Scott W. Healthy Living Professional Posted Sat 19 Sep 2009 10:01pm Click to Play Prone Cobra, improve your posture and learn how to exercise with Scott White: http://www.personalpowertraining.net join now: http://www.myweightworld.com Read on »
Improve your Posture with the Posture Corrector by Nav J. Patient ExpertHealth MavenFacebook Posted Sun 23 Aug 2009 10:22pm Recently, I have been getting many emails from patients who wish to improve their posture. The most common posture I see is the forward head posture (or forward head carriage) with rolled shoulders forward. A slouched looking posture that is not healthy for your spine. The Posture Corrector is the best support that I have found to keep your Read on »
If You Have Forward Head Posture, What Other Posture Might You Have? by Nav J. Patient ExpertHealth MavenFacebook Posted Sun 19 Sep 2010 7:01am Forward Head Carriage is one of the most (if not the most) postural misalignments that is seen. The bad thing is that so many misalignments go hand and hand with it. The first is rolled shoulders. Your shoulders should be back, but shift your head forward and see how hard it is to keep your head back. The Posture Corrector is the best tool I have Read on »
End Neck Pain By Improving Posture - How Proper Posture Improves Your Spine Relieving Nerve Pressure by Nav J. Patient ExpertHealth MavenFacebook Posted Mon 25 Aug 2008 4:12pm How does posture have anything to do with neck pain?-- Neck pain comes from pressure on the nerves. How does this happen?--Usually pressure from a misaligned neck spine... (spinal bones) put direst pressure on nerves or the inflammation, or built up degeneration causes the pressure. The most common misaligned postural pattern in the neck Read on »