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How your postures affect your life
How Your Postures Affect Your Life
In the image on the left, the first scene (top left) represents the “perfect” head posture. A line drawn from the center of the external auditory meatus (EAM) directed straight to the center of the shoulder (the tip of the acromion process). The graph on the right demonstrates the progression of posture when tilting the head forward (occasionally referred to as “anterior head translation”).
According to Rene Cailliet M. D., a famous physician and former director of the department of physical medicine and rehabilitation at the University of Southern California: “Adopting a forward head posture can add up to 13 kg of abnormal force on the cervical spine. This can cause the entire spine to be misaligned.
How Does It Affect?
Maintaining forward head posture (FHP) can result in 30% loss of lung capacity. These respiratory-related effects are primarily due to the loss of cervical lordosis, which blocks the action of the hyoid musculature, especially the inferior hyoid responsible for helping lift the first rib during inhalation.”
A persistent forward head posture (also known as “hyperkyphotic posture”) adds compressive loads on the upper thoracic vertebrae and is also associated with the development of a hump in the upper thoracic region, which can become a Dowager’s Hump when the vertebrae develop compression fractures (anterior compression of the vertebra).
A recent study found that this hyperkyphotic posture was associated with a higher mortality rate index of 1.44. It is not uncommon to observe a 2” forward head displacement in new patients.
What Would It Feel Like to Carry a 9kg Watermelon Hanging from Your Neck?
Neck pain is what forward head posture can do to you. If not corrected, FHP will continue to deteriorate. Chiropractic care can be very corrective, especially in the hands of a chiropractor who has studied in the United States. Our specialty is to reverse joint fixations (what we refer to as “subluxations“) and to reactivate the muscles that normally retract the head.
Marc Bony, DC
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