Stance for Health

Where's Your Head?

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Posture is deteriorating at the speed of technology. The many hours spent straining your neck as you sit in front of your computer, on your phone and on your commute are taking their toll – and you don’t even know it.

Some experts are going as far as to state that “sitting disease” is the new smoking.

Dr. Rodney and Karen will show you how to change that starting now!

Takeaways:

  1. Keeping your head straight will impact your posture so your eyes are level.
  2. The visual and vestibular systems work together to keep your head parallel to the horizon.
  3. Posture rehabilitation is part of your treatment plan at Stance Chiropractic.
  4. You can make a difference in your posture through coordinated eye movements in order to improve your head-forward posture.
  5. Head-forward posture sends a sense of threat to your brain and spinal cord.
  6. A key part of your nervous system consists of the cranial nerves. They are a set of 12 paired nerves in the back of your brain. 
  7. Cranial nerves send electrical signals between the brain and different parts of your face, neck and torso. These are the signals that help you be able to smell, taste, move your eyes and hear.
  8. Daily eye exercises and focused movement will begin to improve your posture.
  9. Dr. Wirth identifies the specific neurological needs you have and Karen teaches you specific physical and eye movements that will retrain your cranial nerves and send the right messages to your involuntary posture system.
  10. Posture rehabilitation exercises produce quick results and major improvements to the involuntary posture system.

Tips to Correcting Posture Problems:

  1. Take frequent posture breaks.
  2. Put your finger in front of your nose and cross your eyes. Hold for 10 seconds.
  3. Stretch your neck from side to side.

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