Did you know that posture impacts your overall health? Did you know that poor postural impacts your brain’s ability to control your body?

People go to the doctor for three main reasons: to feel better, move better, and to look better. Postural care is one way that we can accomplish all three. Imagine someone with excellent posture, what images come to your mind? Whatever they are I’m sure they aren’t someone sick or broken down!

More research is being published all the time on the impact of postural decline on our overall health. In the prestigious journal Spine, a paper showed postural decline was associated with significantly poorer health outcomes across the board. They found negative changes in heart rate, breathing, disability scores, pain and more.The authors stated “even mildly positive sagittal balance (the head and the spine rounding forward) is somewhat detrimental, severity of symptoms increases in a linear fashion with progressive sagittal imbalance.” This means that if your shoulders are rounded forward, if your head is beginning to jut forward, that that is having a negative impact on your overall health and if it gets worse your symptoms will get worse!!

Our Clinic in Overland Park has always sought to provide the best care for our patients. One thing we are committed to is staying current on the best ways to care for the human frame. As we have read more research and taken care of more people we realize that spinal and postural restoration is the very best way that we can care for people.

Postural restoration is exactly what it sounds like, restoring distortions in the body’s posture and creating ideal human structure. There are specific clinical ways to accomplish this and the changes that we are seeing in patients are better than we have seen in the past. Better, more predictable outcomes lead to better results and that’s why we do what we do.

Unfortunately due to smart phone usage, less focus on proper posture at school and at home we are seeing more postural decay in younger people than ever before. This can’t be stressed enough, if a person has postural distortions they are serious and they are progressive, especially if it is a young person.

Postural distortions have in impact not only on the imbalanced postural areas but also on the brain itself. The imbalances send signals back to the brain telling the brain that something is wrong. This is a stressor that comes from inside our bodies and is harder on the body than outside stressors because this stress doesn’t go away! (for more on this see the video that we have posted on our Facebook page)

We encourage everyone to get a professional postural assessment on a regular basis and ensure that your posture is ideal. This is similar to getting your teeth check at a dentist, it is important to do and to do so from a young age. This is to ensure that physical development and brain development happens as ideally as possible.

True Health will be having an upcoming day where we will be offering postural assessments for children at a reduced price to ensure that our children develop correctly. Look for more information about that in the near future.

Until next time, stay Truly Healthy!!