24
Apr
Posture Month Press Release
Posture Month Press Release May is Posture Month: How to Improve Your Upper Body Posture As we spend more time using technology, it is crucial to check in with our upper body posture. Hours a day peering at screens and tapping keyboards causes a shift in how we use the inner deep muscles supporting our... Read More
21
Apr
How’s your Upper Body Posture?
With tech use it’s especially important to check in with your upper body posture. As people spend hours a day bent over a screen and keyboard, the head shifts forward, shoulders rotate in and even breathing patterns are altered as the brain is reprogrammed to perceive tech-neck posture as normal. Creating interoceptive awareness is how... Read More
21
Aug
ACE Your Sleep Posture
FREE HANDOUT Postural stress can make the difference between your patients sleeping well or having a restless night. You know there are a number of factors that impact sleep, everything from positioning to having the right pillow and mattress. Help people design a sleep environment for comfort and support with this free sleep flyer: ACE Your Sleep Posture Flyer Download>>>... Read More
06
Jun
CPEP®
Be the go-to Posture Specialist Join the international network of Certified Posture Exercise Professionals (CPEP®). The program trains health and fitness pros to assess, communicate and improve posture. Research shows back pain and other neuromuscular conditions result from weak posture. Strengthening structural balance and functional alignment helps relieve pain, optimize sports performance, improve appearance and... Read More
31
May
Tip 31 ACE Your Posture
StrongPosture® Tip 31: Check your posture, change your habits Beyond the Posture Month Challenge It’s always a good time to really look at your posture, and check in with how you’re treating the only body you have. Especially with texting and sitting behind a computer at work, followed by sitting in front of a television at home,... Read More
30
May
Tip 30 Posture and Symmetry
StrongPosture® Tip 30: Tips to balance your movement and posture Posture and symmetry As the twig is bent, so grows the tree. People who move unevenly suffer more back pain, plus they look older than their age. Asymmetry will reveal itself when the left and right side of your body looks lopsided on a posture assessment picture,... Read More
29
May
Tip 29 Active Office
StrongPosture® Tip 29: Work movement into your workday Sitting all day at work? New guidelines from the British Journal of Sports Medicine(1) recommend getting up and moving about for 2 to 4 hours of your workday to reduce (or prevent) back and neck pain, as well as reduce the risk of serious health conditions like diabetes. Create... Read More
28
May
Tip 28 Proper Bending
StrongPosture® Tip 28: Creating good habits to avoid injury Stay upright when you bend “I don’t know what happened. I just bent over to pick something up and now my back hurts.” Simply bending over is a surprisingly common cause of back injury and pain. It often occurs when someone bends at the waist and hips instead... Read More
27
May
Tip 27 Driving Posture
StrongPosture® Tip 27: Make adjustments to sit taller in the car Training good habits How’s your driving posture? As people become more posture aware, many notice their posture is more bent forward on the drive home than it was during the morning drive to work. Most likely the culprit is fatigue and/or sitting in front of a computer all day. Rear... Read More
26
May
Tip 26 Posture Break to Stretch
StrongPosture® Tip 26: Counter the effects of sitting Ball Stretch A lot of people think their posture is pretty good, and when they stand tall their head is level head and body is aligned properly over their feet. However, a quick check with a posture picture often shows a different reality, with head jutting slightly forward and... Read More