Does practice make perfect….or permanent????

How adaptable are you and your children?

Chances are…VERY!!! Good news, right? Perhaps…

The human body and nervous system has an amazing capacity for adaptation. Whatever we teach it, it has the capacity to learn, respond and move. Pretty amazing stuff!

If our bodies are so amazing then why are more and more people, children included, experiencing headaches, neck and back pain?

In addition to sitting at work and school, there has also been a huge increase in the number of hours we spend slouched over laptops, gaming devices or cell phones. When the head juts forward, instead of resting balanced over top of the shoulders, the joints, muscles and nerves in the neck and upper back will become over stressed and sensitized. In fact, for every inch forward, you can count on doubling the amount of stress these structures have to bear. Repeated day after day, this is sure to end in headaches, neck or back pain!

Technology may be partially to blame but the real culprit for the increase in these problems is repeated poor posture!

Great news though! With a few small changes these problems can be minimized or eliminated altogether!

Optimal Sitting for Gaming and Computer Use

• Sit up straight with the shoulders balanced over the hips, and shift the pelvis forward so you are balancing on your sitting bones
  
• Feet flat on the ground
• Roll the shoulders back and then down
• Look straight ahead and keeping the chin level, draw the head over the shoulders

This may seem difficult and feel awkward at first but remember…practice makes permanent!