{"id":472,"date":"2022-05-02T19:25:29","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T19:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgenowik.com\/?p=472"},"modified":"2022-05-04T18:56:44","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T18:56:44","slug":"why-is-good-posture-so-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgenowik.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/02\/why-is-good-posture-so-important\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is Good Posture SO Important?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:104%;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-audio fusion-audio-1\" style=\"--awb-progress-color:#ffffff;--awb-border-color:var(--awb-color1);--awb-background-color:#1d242d;--awb-max-width:100%;--awb-border-size:0;--awb-border-top-left-radius:0px;--awb-border-top-right-radius:0px;--awb-border-bottom-right-radius:0px;--awb-border-bottom-left-radius:0px;\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-472-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/georgenowik.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Episode-025-Why-is-good-posture-SO-important.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/georgenowik.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Episode-025-Why-is-good-posture-SO-important.mp3\">https:\/\/georgenowik.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Episode-025-Why-is-good-posture-SO-important.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><h2>&#8211; Or: Y&#8217;gotta keep your head up (WOOO~OOOHHH)<\/h2>\n<p>So, posture.\u00a0 Funny story.\u00a0 When trying to decide what today&#8217;s topic was going to be, I pulled up a handy dandy document file that I keep as a repository for possible subjects.\u00a0 Because the screen was a bit further away than normal &#8211; rearranging the desk a bit &#8211; I kinda hunched forward to get a better look.\u00a0 Yes, I wear skepticals.\u00a0 I still gotta get closer sometimes.<\/p>\n<p>As I was reviewing the list, felt a bit of a twinge in my left shoulder blade.\u00a0 Looked up and realized: I was completely and fully slouched over the laptop staring at the screen.\u00a0 Think Ebeneezer Scrooge with his quill hunched over a slab of parchment taking account of his riches.\u00a0 Hair on top mostly gone with a longish Picard-fringe, effectively rendering him the perfect protagonist for a possible movie scene.\u00a0 No glitzy hotel high-floor Spire 73 open air club parties for this guy; just wretched and debilitating back pain from years of drooping over his hardware-based accounting system.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine for a moment if he, in all his non-contagonist inglory, were to suddenly sit up straight.\u00a0 Head tall.\u00a0 Look about the world around him and see with new eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Oh wait, that actually happens in the movie.\u00a0 But think about that!\u00a0 Aside from incredible acting, the cosmetic appearance of taller posture alone completely changes so much about his look.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I got a bit sidetracked there. There was a point to all of it, though.\u00a0 and as soon as I remember what it was, I&#8217;ll dump it below.<\/p>\n<p>ANYWAY.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s talk about the variety of reasons why posture is so important for all of us.<\/p>\n<p>(note: during the course of writing the above paragraph, I caught myself lolling (not the ha ha out loud kind) over the keyboard AGAIN.\u00a0 Like, five times.\u00a0 Maybe I should read my own blog!)<\/p>\n<h2>What do I mean when I say &#8220;posture?&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>I&#8217;m guessing that everyone reading this is quite familiar with the notion behind good posture.\u00a0 I&#8217;m also willing to bet that most everyone reading this &#8211; including me as I write -is being extra vigilant about posture position.\u00a0 (I was thinking of keeping a tally for the number of times I readjust while writing because that would be funny but it also sounds like work.\u00a0 I have this allergy&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>There is much said about what exactly is supposed to be good posture.\u00a0 In my brain it has always come with a concept of rigidity that felt out of place but as it turns out, it&#8217;s not supposed to feel that way.\u00a0 It only does if you&#8217;re not in practice.\u00a0 Which &#8230; erm. &#8230;. kinda is where I&#8217;m at.<\/p>\n<p>The short version of good posture is something like this: it&#8217;s all about spinal alignment.\u00a0 It doesn&#8217;t mean flat back though! It effectively means that, if you look from the side, you should see a nice, neat, straight line that starts at the top of your head, slices dead center through the ears and shoulders, and ever so slightly behind your knee and right in ront of the center of the ankle.\u00a0 Bam.\u00a0 That is a definition of &#8220;standing up straight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>A few posture things to consider<\/h2>\n<p>Not everyone is capable of the above definition of posture for a variety of reasons.\u00a0 There are physical conditions that make this impossible.\u00a0 Challenges that from birth would prevent it.\u00a0 Past injuries that would never allow for anything remotely &#8220;proper.&#8221;\u00a0 In so many cases, it is a good goal to try and get as close to whatever is best for the individual as possible.<\/p>\n<p>A quick jaunt over to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthline.com\/health\/bone-health\/the-4-main-types-of-posture\">Healthline<\/a> gives a nice summary of different types of posture and some of the effects of both good and bad.\u00a0 It&#8217;s worth checking out for more detailed information.<\/p>\n<p>Outside of physical limitations, we get back to folks like me who just have years of chronic bad posture.\u00a0 But we&#8217;re going to get into that in a minute here.<\/p>\n<h2>Detrimental effects of bad posture<\/h2>\n<p>I&#8217;m starting with the detrimental effects of bad posture <em>first<\/em> because I&#8217;d rather end on a high note.\u00a0 So we&#8217;re getting the icky stuff out of the way now and coming back to the cool stuff.\u00a0 Sounds good?\u00a0 I sure hope so because that&#8217;s where we&#8217;re going RIGHT NOW.<\/p>\n<h3>Digestion<\/h3>\n<p>That&#8217;s right, you heard me. Digestion can be impacted by improper postural presence.\u00a0 When thinking about it, though, it makes sense.\u00a0 Poor posture can cause the intestines to slow their roll and not function at full capacity or speed, which can cause a traffic jam in the stomach.\u00a0 When that happens, acid reflux is the name of the game and ain&#8217;t nobody a fan of that show.\u00a0 There are theories that poor spinal alignment can also cause for interference in the nerve clusters that allow the stomach and intestines to effectively do their job.\u00a0 Either way, if you are interested in fooding and you like to participate in the act of fooding, efforts to get into the proper posture game might be worth while.<\/p>\n<p>So right out of the gave, having an effigurate head-to-ankle alignment is going to make your entire food absorption experience more pleasant.\u00a0 Who knew!<\/p>\n<h3>Spinal deformation<\/h3>\n<p>It sounds serious because it is serious.\u00a0 That skull thing that contains our keto-friendly fatty computer made out of meat and other various and sundry is kinda heavy!\u00a0 Both in the sense of weight and in the Marty McFly &#8220;Back to the Future&#8221; contexts.\u00a0 But we&#8217;ll stick with measurable weight.<\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s the thing.\u00a0 Our heads, on average, weigh somewhere in the neighborhood of 11 pounds.\u00a0 Low grade bowling ball.\u00a0 Small boulder. Holiday ham, adult cat, paint bucket, you get the idea.\u00a0 So imagine, if you will, that the head is perfectly aligned with the shoulders that it rests upon.\u00a0 Straight down force allows the body to take on that burden in a fairly straightforward action.\u00a0 It weighs eleven pounds, the end.<\/p>\n<p>So now, counter to everything I&#8217;ve said already, stick your neck out a bit and let the head droop a bit.\u00a0 What happens there?\u00a0 The force of gravity shifts from straight down into the spine to straight down over your toes.\u00a0 The spine and shoulders are designed to take on that burden straight on.\u00a0 Tilted forward?\u00a0 The spine is having to try to crank back and compensate for the misalignment, effectively creating a curvature that wasn&#8217;t there before.\u00a0 The degree to which the head is pulling the spine out of alignment increases the force it places there that it wasn&#8217;t designed to really handle.\u00a0 The further the head is out of alignment, the more force is placed on the spine.\u00a0 Over time and uncorrected, this will cause for a new and permanent curve.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not pleasant.<\/p>\n<h3>Decreased respiratory function<\/h3>\n<p>So, we&#8217;re into the whole breathing aspect of what keeps us alive.\u00a0 You know, minor things like that.\u00a0 Inhaling and exhaling is kind of a vital part of our day-to-day.\u00a0 Poor posture has been found via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC6348172\/\">study<\/a> to actually decrease the ability to breathe properly. The decrease in lower-thorax mobility impacts the ability to take a deep breath.<\/p>\n<p>Go ahead, give it a shot.\u00a0 For reals.<\/p>\n<p>Fully slouch over and then try to take a nice deep belly breath.\u00a0 Now sit up perfectly straight and try to do the same thing.\u00a0 Do you feel the difference?\u00a0 I sure hope so!\u00a0 If not, maybe schedule a visit with a respiratory therapist post haste.\u00a0 Rule #1 is DON&#8217;T DEATH and breathing is one of the best ways to avoid breaking that rule.<\/p>\n<p>Ok, that&#8217;s enough of that.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s move onto the good part.<\/p>\n<h2>Benefits of better posture<\/h2>\n<p>There are so many benefits of better posture and I&#8217;m going to graze over several of them here in an effort to be all motivational and stuff.<\/p>\n<h3>Spinal health<\/h3>\n<p>Our spine is pretty much the gateway to everything we ever want to do ever.\u00a0 Sit, stand, eat, drink, dance, instrumentate, argue with the neighbors, build the fence between you and the neighbors, crank the Marshall amp to 11 when the neighbors decide that leaf blowing at 7am is cool.\u00a0 You know, stuff.\u00a0 And things.<\/p>\n<p>Taking proper care of the things that allows all of those nerve clusters to do their jobs and perform the aforementioned things and stuffs is a nice way to live a life.\u00a0 Better posture and spinal alignment will allow for much more longevity in activities that we enjoy.<\/p>\n<h3>Mood boost<\/h3>\n<p>It makes sense, right?\u00a0 When you&#8217;re kinda down in the dumps, your posture tends to go with it.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re feeling happy, your posture is probably a bit more upright.\u00a0 The brain body connection is kinda like the rainbow connection except more tangible.\u00a0 And with fewer frogs.\u00a0 Ok so it&#8217;s not like the rainbow connection at all but GO WITH ME ON THIS.\u00a0 The two things work together and one can influence the other fairly easily.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re feeling a bit down on a given day, try extra hard to keep the posture up and see if it might help increase the mood to a less despairing level.<\/p>\n<h3>Reduce neck and back pain<\/h3>\n<p>I mean &#8230;. it&#8217;s kinda self-explanatory, isn&#8217;t it?\u00a0 Bad posture will create neck and back pain.\u00a0 Better posture will help fix and maybe even prevent it.\u00a0 As once intoned by Jayne Cobb: &#8220;Pain is scary.&#8221;\u00a0 Since we don&#8217;t like pain, we should probably do things to help avoid pain, right?\u00a0 So there we have it.\u00a0 That one is a gimme.<\/p>\n<h3>Fewer headaches<\/h3>\n<p>Ok so yeah.\u00a0 Reduction in some kinds of headaches.\u00a0 Increased muscle stiffness in the neck can be a cause of tension headaches.\u00a0 Which nobody likes.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re in a position where headaches could be directly related to neck tension, consult with a physician and find out if there are exercises that you can do that will help to alleviate that tension.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a grand idea; I highly recommend it.<\/p>\n<h3>SING BETTER!<\/h3>\n<p>Imagine, if you will, a clear pathway from bottom to top to just let air escape while singing instead of forcing things out and straining every note.\u00a0 Like -I- do.\u00a0 Posture can help with that too!\u00a0 When everything is in alignment, singing can be so much more effortless.\u00a0 Talking probably as well.\u00a0 Doing anything vocally without strain is generally a good idea!\u00a0 Every singing coach will tell you that standing up as straight as possible &#8211; long neck in the back, short in the front &#8211; is going to allow you to sing for longer periods of time without fatigue.\u00a0 Seems like a no brainer!<\/p>\n<h2>Ways to correct deviating postural tendencies<\/h2>\n<p>(i don&#8217;t even know what that means)<\/p>\n<p>There are some who would argue that &#8220;physical therapy&#8221; is just a really long four-letter word.\u00a0 There might be some truth to that.\u00a0 Having said that, if you&#8217;re in a position where it has gone on for a long time (like me), it&#8217;s possible that getting a physical therapist involved in correction is going to be a really good idea.<\/p>\n<p>For me, I know that in order to do things to correct spinal alignment &#8211; or at least get them back into some semblance of making the bowling ball weigh slightly less in extra force &#8211; I&#8217;m going to need to do lots of back and shoulder exercises.\u00a0 Which I&#8217;ve already started (exercise will probably be another blog for another time) and can already feel in impact from after just a few weeks.\u00a0 Slowly but surely.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at the desk that you&#8217;re working at.\u00a0 How far in front of you do you have to reach in order to gently caress the keys of your computer entry device?\u00a0 How far away from your viewing orbs is the monitor you stare at? If either of those things are too far away, you&#8217;re going to find yourself hunching over to reach or see.\u00a0 Or both.\u00a0 All day long.\u00a0 Day in and day out.<\/p>\n<p>Does the chair that you sit in all day long day after day promote good posture or is it just a seat-stump?\u00a0 There are a variety of chairs worth looking into that might help encourage better posture while sitting.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re sitting in one of those fancy gaming chairs and your spine is aligned properly and you can&#8217;t reach your keyboard or see the monitor, move the keyboard and monitor, not your face!<\/p>\n<p>There are plenty more than the above but that might be a great start for any of you who &#8211; like me &#8211; sit behind a keyboard all the live long day.<\/p>\n<h2>In closing<\/h2>\n<p>The short answer is &#8220;fix yer posture.&#8221;\u00a0 If only it was so easy!<\/p>\n<p>Keeping in mind: Rome didn&#8217;t fall in a day, either.\u00a0 For those without preexisting physical limitations, postural alignment doesn&#8217;t slip out over night.\u00a0 It&#8217;s one of those nefarious things that sneaks up on you over the years when you&#8217;re not looking.\u00a0 Which tracks: you&#8217;re not looking because you can&#8217;t see yourself from the side or from behind very easily without the aid of photographic devices.\u00a0 And really, who wants to have their souls swallowed by the lens of one of those evil picture-capturing devices?\u00a0 Not I, said the goose!<\/p>\n<p>For those who still have the opportunity, fixing posture consistency is such an important part of our long-term life.\u00a0 It gives your spine the chance to thrive the way it was designed instead of opting for a crippling nope-out.\u00a0 Definitely worth the effort if the chance is there.<\/p>\n<p>Until next week!<\/p>\n<p>-= george =-<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-2 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:104%;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":474,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[137,134,136,69,135,133],"class_list":["post-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-activity","tag-alignment","tag-breathing","tag-health","tag-posture","tag-spine"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Why is Good Posture SO Important? - George Nowik - Voice Actor<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Good posture is kind of a big deal. 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