There are muscles in your back between the shoulder blade and spine called rhomboids. There is one on each side. The rhomboid muscles are often blamed for pain and knots in their area. Actually, that area can be the “symptom” and not the cause at all! People (including professional massage therapists) often massage the rhomboid [...]
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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 [...]
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Posted in foot pain, pain relief, posture on Apr 8th, 2009
Can your posture cause pain? Oh Boy! It surely can! In fact, it does. Poor, or collapsed, posture can cause pain in your head, neck, feet, legs, hips, upper and lower back. Why? Because being out of muscular “balance” means that you are using muscles to do the job of bones. With poor posture, your [...]
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