How to Improve Your Body Posture?

How to Improve Your Body Posture? 

 Clearly, a good posture is a lot more than standing straight and looking good. It minimizes the risk of chronic back, neck, or muscle pain.  

Undeniably, maintaining a good posture is crucial for your health.  

Wondering why? 

Well, your body posture refers to how you position your body while standing, sitting, or lying down. Unknown to many, a good posture is as essential as sleeping comfortably, a healthy diet, and exercising. In simple terms, a good body posture is a core pillar of your health. Having a good posture helps you keep your joints in optimal alignment and minimizes the risk of further injuries as well. In fact, a good posture helps you avoid muscle pain, fatigue, tension, and other medical conditions.  

Following are some tips that can help you improve your body posture: 

Don’t Be a Slouch 

In today’s modern world, finding yourself slouched over a phone or laptop for hours is quite normal. Well, sitting in the wrong posture for a long duration can add stress to your spine and leads to many problems. Certainly, slouching is very bad for your complete body posture. It can harm ligaments, muscles, nerves, and tendons of your back. If you don’t take care of your back, then you may have to face serious long-term medical problems.  

Beware of “Text Neck”

In this tech-savvy world, everyone uses smartphones or tablets. Doubtlessly, technology is the need of this modern world. However, using your smartphones or tablets for long periods can cause neck strain resulting in “Text Neck Syndrome”. In order to prevent this problem, you need to stretch your neck properly. This helps you relieve tension from your neck, shoulder joints, and upper back.  

Tone Your Abs

Well, too much fat around your belly puts much stress on your back which ultimately affects your body posture. Thus, it’s imperative to maintain a healthy weight. You can follow a well-designed workout plan to keep your body in shape and improve your body posture. Initially, you can try low-impact exercises like tai chi and gradually increase the pace.  

Limit Too Much Bending

If you are experiencing back pain, then you should limit routine activities that involve too much bending. Repetitive bending puts additional stress on your spine, resulting in serious back injuries. According to the latest survey report, jobs involving too much bending are more prone to back injuries.  

Straighten Up

This is one of the best ways to prevent posture problems. So, make sure that you stand up tall. Hold your head and chin straight, and keep your belly tucked in. This helps you maintain the right posture. Also, don’t let your lower body stick out.  

Avoid Heals Daily

Footwear affects body posture a lot. Heels like stilettos and pumps affect your spine alignment which leads to intense back pain. Apart from this, high-heels put more weight on your knee joints. So, avoid wearing heals on daily basis. Instead, try wearing low-heel shoes.  

In the Nutshell!

Undoubtedly, a good body posture is important to keep your joints healthy and prevents joint injuries. A good body posture fortifies your cardiovascular abilities and muscles. So, focus on improving the posture of your body. Sustaining a correct posture ensures that your joints are well aligned and work more efficiently with less strain.  

Certainly, comfort in the modern world is to slouch and stamp. But, you need to understand that organs will never be at comfort in such postures. So, maintain a correct posture while standing, sitting, or sleeping. Following the above-mentioned tips can help you improve your body posture. A good posture boosts your energy levels and minimizes the risk of joint injuries.

Author Bio:

Dr. Prateek Kumar Gupta is highly trained arthroscopy and sports surgeon in AOSM. He treats sports injury and other orthopaedic injuries including foot, ankle, hip, elbow with special interest in knee and shoulder issues that hinders patient/players quality of life.

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