How to Improve Your Posture – and Why it Matters

The correct posture can be highly beneficial for your health. Aside from making you appear taller and more confident, it can help you to feel better, as well. Today, Chawla Chiropractic outlines a few more valid points about why posture is such a big deal.

What is the correct posture?

Before we delve into the myriad of benefits of a good posture, it might be helpful to establish what exactly a good posture is. Depending on what you are doing, good posture could either be dynamic or static. If standing, your spine should be upright with your chin parallel to the floor. You should also be able to feel your weight evenly dispersed on your heels so that you aren’t leaning too much just on one leg or the other. Adopting an upright posture can also make you look taller than you are, something which is regarded favorably in the celeb world. Indeed, good posture exudes self-assurance. Speaking of celebs and their heights, you can check sites to learn more about the heights of your favorite celebs.

How you can improve your posture

Since your posture relies on the strength of your core muscles, working on strengthening these muscles will help significantly in this regard. If hitting the gym and working on planks doesn’t appeal to you much, Yoga Journal notes that exercises such as yoga and Tai Chi could help to enhance your posture just as well.  Additionally, you should pay attention to how you sleep and if your spine has the support it requires when in sleep mode. Adjust Health explains that wearing well-fitted shoes can also assist with leveling out your weight so that you don’t lean too much on one side or the other.

Check-in with your chiropractor

If you feel that something just isn’t sitting right about how you hold yourself, Dr. Sudeep Chawla in Danvers, Massachusetts can help address these causes thereof and can also help manipulate your joints to rectify a bad posture. Speaking of visiting a chiropractor regularly, making sure you have your medical records available and in the right format for review is important, too. When there’s a need to convert and reformat files like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents, search online if you want a PDF file converter. This tool enables you to save files into PDF format (since this is generally the most preferred format) by dragging and dropping vital documents onto the PDF converter interface.

Minimize stress

Stress can be a primary contributor to chronic pain. This is why you should focus on reducing your stress levels to help bring down those cortisone levels and any inflammation you may be currently experiencing.  If the condition of your home office is what’s causing your stress levels to go up instead of down, then this is a telltale sign that work needs to be done here. Again, the secret lies in creating a space that is calm and peaceful; this can only be achieved where clutter is not present. Proper organization is also important, as is having the right lighting to avoid placing stress on your eyes.

Benefits of a good posture

Having the correct posture is not just for show. In fact, the ability to keep yourself upright has many other health benefits, too, including more energy, an improved digestive system, increased lung capacity, as well as a boost in confidence. These are just a few things to remember when maintaining the optimum posture, the results of which are sure to please you as you breathe better, think more clearly, and feel better in your own skin.

Here at Chawla Chiropractic 

The reason many seek chiropractic care is to prevent, manage, or treat physiological pain and discomfort, especially as it pertains to the neck, back, and spine. While here at Chawla Chiropractic, we are eager to assist in such interventions, we’re just as eager to provide solutions that you can implement outside of your chiropractic appointments, particularly in your office and otherwise.

If you want to learn more about our services, or if you’re eager to book an appointment, feel free to contact us by phone/text at (617) 334-5002, email us at drc@chawlachiropractic.com, or visit us onsite at 435 Newbury St. Suite 208 Danvers, MA 01923.

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