Postural Training

Posture: A Lost Art

Improper posture may arise from multiple sources – sitting in front of computers, looking down at our phones, habit, and compensating for pain; these improper posture habits result in pain, injury and inflammation.

Postural training teaches patients individual biomechanical postures, the proper conduct for movement, and how to correctly support your body to decrease pain and reduce the risk of future injury.

By adding postural training to our patients’ care programs, we ensure that they are able to progress through their goals at all levels.

By pursuing proper articulation of the joints, we ensure they have long and healthy lives; by developing proper support posture and alignment, we ensure to lower pain and produce effective and efficient movement.

With the proper posture patients will be encouraged to develop healthy relationships with exercise and movement, courtesy of lowered pain and increased balance and physical ability.

Diagnosing Posture

We focus on 2 main postures: Upper Cross Syndrome (UCS) and Lower Cross Syndrome (LCS)

UCS involves forward head and shoulder posture that can ‘wreck havoc’ in your neck, upper back and shoulder.  This is a common posture we see in our ‘desk jockeys’, AKA people who work at a desk, and anyone who sits for an extended period of time staring at a tv screen or their phone.  This leads to muscle imbalance in the upper back and neck.  These muscle imbalances may include a tight upper trapezius and pec muscles along with weak rhomboid muscles.

LCS involves an arched low back, and lower body dysfunction. This arched low back and dysfunction creates muscle imbalances that form a crisscross pattern.  A common muscle imbalance seen with LCS includes a tight hip flexor muscle along with weak glute and abdominal muscles.

If you think you may have either of these postures contact Core1 today and schedule your appointment .

Hacking your Fitness Goals

Posture reveals and relies upon the inner-workings of the musculoskeletal and nervous systems, and where there is stress on the body, imbalance (and pain) follows.

Correcting posture is important for increased lung capacity, decreased pain, improvised physical fitness, and building core strength.

By analyzing your posture, we are able to diagnose points of injury, stress and biomechanical abnormality – this allows us to better treat ailments and their root causes.

By engaging with postural training, patients are ensuring they are moving correctly without issue, have proper support structures engaged and are setting themselves up for successful physical fitness.

Our team wants to work with you to improve your posture – allowing you to engage properly with the world, while reducing your pain and increasing your physical abilities.

In assuring that our patients are best set against potential future injury we are also increasing the likeliness that they will develop healthy relationships with physical fitness routines and movement.

A Team Effort

This whole-body approach to pain management is crucial to the success of our patients and is one of the many reasons Core 1 Chiropractic and Dr. Josh are the best chiropractic offices in Downers Grove, Illinois.

The team approach, the multiple therapies available, and the modern facilities at Core 1 encourage engagement with fitness and recovery programs, as patients are never alone and always have multiple specialists on their side.

Our specialists provide excellent postural training, allowing patients to learn about the way they move, why it matters, and the debilitating effects of immobility or carrying yourself incorrectly.

This knowledge is paramount to understanding how to properly hold your core, spine, and body while interacting with the world – allowing you to overcome pain, prevent further injury, and achieve recovery and fitness goals.

Getting our patients moving and interacting with the world around them is our goal, increasing fitness and decreasing the possibility of injury; postural training is at the heart of this goal to benefit the physical fitness of all patients.