What is Posture?
Posture is the attitude/alignment of our body at a static position (eg. sitting, standing, sleeping) or while moving (eg. walking, running).
The way we maintain alignment of our body while we sit, stand, sleep or carry out our routine activities has an impact on our joints and muscles and overall body functions/performance.
Maintaining it in an inappropriate/wrong manner for longer duration may cause discomfort and pain eventually. This occurs due to repetitive microtrauma (trauma at a micro level repetitively in the form of pull, stretch, compression etc) over a period of time. Many of us experience musculoskeletal problems – back pain, sciatica (low back pain spreading down to legs), neck pain, joint pain etc. Other than the actual injury to these areas, incorrect posture plays a major role in giving rise to pain (due to microtrauma), which may extend for months and years together. And this pain can be frustrating and draining, and at times may even become debilitating..derailing your entire routine!
Why do we suffer from pain for so long? / Why does the pain come back?
Because we take every other treatment to cure pain but fail to check our posture! Pain killing medicines work for blocking pain sensation reaching our brain, but we fail to address the cause of this pain which may be our POSTURE. Hence, the pain may recur. And it happens because of a lack of awareness of postural health.
What to do?
Think if you are you aware of Postural health and correction!
Yes, posture correction remains the key for prevention of posture-related pain and all the possible suffering because of it. And for those, already in pain, posture correction is the extremely vital aspect along with working on the muscle tightness, strength and stamina, while correcting mechanics at the joint (Physiotherapy) and medicines (when the need be). If posture correction is not followed, the pain may subside, but temporarily and may recur!
Remember..be it anyone.. right from mother in the kitchen to a teacher at school, from a police officer to a surgeon, from a school going kid to a runway model… everyone must be aware of appropriate ways to maintain postures in order to save oneself from pain & suffering.
There is less public awareness about postural health though the impact (physical, emotional and economical) of bad posture on our health is tremendous which is easy to avoid/tackle by simple education about it.
Hence, we bring this book ‘Are You Posture Perfect?’ – a simple guide to create awareness about appropriate postures while working at desk, in kitchen, while performing household chores, while studying, sleeping, using pillow, matresses, while driving, and many more! You will find answers to many of your questions about your musculoskeletal problems along with few quick and easy exercises which can be performed in your routine. This book is for every individual right from a school kid to an elderly as every individual is entitled to awareness about selfcare.
This is the time to take charge of our own pain and as Sir Vernon Howard said “Self knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives,” we need to be aware to take charge of ourselves and our loved ones!
So don’t wait to get your share of knowledge and order your copy soon!
You may order it from Flipkart/Amazon or contact on 8928475928.
Authored by- Dr Rajashree Lad (PT) Consultant Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist [BPT, MPT, COMT, CFMP (Canada), BRS (USA), CAFST (Canada), MIAFT]
