With more and more people sitting down for a living, postural issues are becoming increasingly common. I often hear people say “It hurts when I sit with good posture”, or “I feel as though my muscles get tired sitting with good posture”. If this is you then your first thought should be “I need to […]
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HealthSpace Posture Assessment – What is it, how it works, or why you should have one.
What Is A Posture Assessment? A postural assessment looks at the alignment of body from the front, back and side to see whether there are any imbalances or any muscles that are weak or tight, or for any movement patterns that could be causing pain or discomfort. It is important to deal with any and […]
How Acupuncture may help Posture, Pain and Movement
How acupuncture may help with posture, pain and movement? Muscles should be limber or flaccid when not active and should only tense up when activated. If this doesn’t happen then you can consider it as some form of muscular dysfunction. When different areas start to tighten up it can cause dysfunctional movement of the areas […]
Rehabilitating Spine & Posture
Once you start looking you see them everywhere; people with rounded shoulders, curved spines, and extended ‘goose’ necks from hours of hunching over mobile phones, tablets, and computer screens. It’s a modern-day epidemic, the equivalent of, say, smallpox in the Middle Ages or the scourge of typhoid during the 18th century Industrial Revolution. Of course, […]