Posture is the Key!

Probably the most neglected and least understood key to ones total health is the role in which posture plays in longevity, ageing and better health. In the body, there are two primary curves and two secondary curves when looking from the side. The thoracic and pelvic curves are primary curves because they alone are present during foetal life. The cervical and lumbar curves are secondary curves, and are developed after birth.

At birth these curves are normal, but as we grow they start to lose their primary position. Many things can cause this to happen: falls, stress, slumping, poor mattresses, and accidents, lack of exercise, poor diet, malnutrition and gravity. If this lack of normal postural integrity continues, then compensating changes start taking place in the full spine, and the delicate systems of the body are changed. These changes will also effect the rest of the body, as the body works as a harmonious structure closely affecting every cell and organ system in the same way.

Posture - The Unknown

Many people have posture distortion and don't even know it. If we look at the body from the side, and see the following:

1.The shoulders dropped forward and down.

2. The upper middle back curve starts looking humped.

3. The head drops forward and down.

4. The back's primary lordotic curves increase.

Then we see a person that has lost height and his rib cage and diaphragm have dropped. Because of this, his/her organs slip down, and now push out the lower abdomen. This will cause a potbelly and there may be problems with constipation, haemorrhoids, varicose veins, swelling of the exterminates, fluid retention, bladder & kidney problems, impotency, and hernias. Women could also have menstrual problems, resulting from these postural changes. The list of problems is endless: back pain, headaches, dizziness, sinus problems, poor memory, poor digestion, heart and lung problems and hypertension to name a few.

Stress – and its affects on Your Body

The constant bombardment in our daily lives of pressures, problems, sadness, illness, disappointment, etc; put our bodies under constant stress. As our bodies evolved, allowances were made for a certain degree of stress and strain. We refer to this as the body's "elastic limits". Meaning that the muscles, the nervous system, the organs and other membranes of the body are able to tolerate loads and stresses beyond their normal limits for short periods of time without breaking down or collapsing.

Our bodies are wonderfully made, but in modern society, stresses placed on them are more frequent and come from many more sources than ever before. As a result most of us push our bodies far beyond the elastic limits.

When pushed beyond these natural limits, stress becomes strain. A strain is entirely different in its effects on the body.

Now there has been a change made in the body's tissues. This change is the result of an over-accumulation of fatigue poisons in the tissues. These fatigue poisons are acid in nature and are the waste products left when the body burns up glucose, which has been stored in muscle tissue. Glucose is the energy nutrient carried to the tissues by the blood.

Under normal conditions, a muscle burns glucose when in use. When the muscle is relaxed, the wastes (fatigue poisons) are then carried away in the blood stream. Fatigue poisons are converted to carbon dioxide and water. As the blood is filtered through the kidneys much of the fatigue poisons are cleaned out. The remaining toxins are expelled through the lungs.

Fatigue – how Fatigue Poisons Accumulate

When your body is pushed beyond its elastic limit, resulting in strain, normal functions are impeded. Strain is tense, or unrelaxed, muscle tissue. When a muscle is unable to fully relax after use, the blood is unable to pick up the fatigue poisons. These fatigue poisons are then stored in the tissues.

This accumulation of fatigue poisons becomes a vicious cycle. Muscles left in a condition of strain for a prolonged period of time will cause body distortion. As body distortion increases, exhaustion results. When the body becomes completely exhausted it will die. As strain sets in, and ultimately becomes distortion, many people think that all that is needed is prolonged periods of rest.

Unfortunately this is not the entire answer. If it were, people who became so exhausted and ill that they were forced to stay in bed would all get well.

Of course this is not the case. Many people lie in bed for years with one problem developing into another until death finally comes.

Always seek professional advice; give your therapist a chance to enhance your health and well-being they can assist you in maintaining the best health possible - and in a completely natural way.

Do not let disease compromise the quality of your life! "Control Pain and Live Life".