How to Get Better Posture for Back Pain Relief
Oct 27th, 2009 by Kathryn Merrow
Back pain is often caused by posture. When your posture collapses–you “fall forward” with your head leading the rest of the group–the muscles in your chest get short and tight. That makes it hard to breathe, hard to hold your head up, hard to have good posture.
At the same time, the muscles in your back get overstretched and so they complain. (They hate being stretched too far!) They give you pain to call your attention to the fact that something is wrong.
Collapsed posture also causes lower back pain, headaches and migraines, constipation and lots and lots of other problems. It’s a primary cause of “old age.”
You had wonderful posture when you were very young and with a bit of help from you, you can have it again.
Watch this whole video through to the end before you try this movement. At the end, the teacher will demonstrate how to come out of the movement.
You can use a towel rolled into a tube and folded towels for supports for your head. If you need to adjust the size of your “tube” it’s easy to just unroll the towel a bit.
