Posture Corrector

Reliable practitioners can help you solve chronic postural compensation and related pain problems that the hospital rehabilitation department does not have the energy to cover. This is by no means an IQ tax; only those wild ways that rely on anxious marketing and half-baked skills to defraud money can really cut leeks.

I just picked up a 26-year-old Internet operation girl last week. Her trapezius muscles are as thick as two ping pong balls. I went to the beauty salon to push my shoulder and neck three times. I evaluated her for 20 minutes. It was not just muscle tension at all, but compensation caused by upper cross syndrome and atlantoaxial joint subluxation. I first fine-tuned the joint positions, and then taught her three movements to practice the deep neck flexors. Three days later, she sent me a message saying that her head turning was finally no longer stuck, and even the migraines that had been painful for more than half a year were reduced.

Speaking of this, I have to mention the two factions that are currently quarreling in the industry: those who practice American chiropractic believe that bone alignment is the core, and if they are straightened out with a few clicks, most of the problems will be solved directly; those who engage in sports rehabilitation sneer, saying that if you do not rebuild muscle strength after breaking it, the body habits will return after two weeks, and it will be in vain. I have been in this business for 6 years, and to be fair, both views are right and wrong. If you have an acute small joint disorder and it hurts so much that you can't even stand, then you ask someone to do muscle training. It's sheer torture. The joints must be repositioned first and then the exercises will be effective. But if you have accumulated chronic compensation for three to five years, it will snap at the beginning, which is more likely to cause problems. There was a young man who asked a "master" at a small clinic on the street to crack his neck. The blood supply to the vertebral artery was insufficient on the spot, and he fainted for half an hour before he recovered.

Many people’s understanding of posture correction is still based on “whether it looks good or not.” In fact, it is not. Last month, a mother brought her son who was in the third grade of junior high school and said that the child was hunchbacked every day and asked me to give him more courses to open his shoulders. I couldn't laugh or cry when I took the test. The child has a flat back, and the natural physiological curvature of the thoracic spine is almost gone. The further the shoulders are opened, the more the thoracic spine collapses. Instead, I need to practice more thoracic spine extension movements. Just don't lie down on the table to do homework when I go back. There are also many people who blindly practice right-angled shoulders by following online tutorials, and practice until the acromion impinges, and it hurts to lift their arms to put on clothes. The essence is that they do not understand the root cause of their posture problems, and they use strong medicines randomly.

Seriously, don’t frighten yourself by blindly following self-assessment forms online. A while ago, a girl came in with a popular science post that she had saved for half a month. She said that she had an anterior pelvic tilt, high and low shoulders, and long and short legs at the same time. She counted seven or eight kinds of problems. She was so scared that she couldn't even attend class. After I tested her, I found that there was no major problem. She just crossed her legs every day and her hip flexors were tight. She crossed her legs less when she went home and stretched for 5 minutes before going to bed. She came back in two weeks and was anxious for less than half a month.

Of course, not all problems can be corrected. For example, if the structural scoliosis exceeds 40 degrees, you need to see an orthopedic surgeon for evaluation and surgery. The best we can do is help you relieve the pain caused by compensation. Anyone who says we can straighten it for you is definitely a liar. There are also those who boast of "building right-angled shoulders in 7 days" and "correcting height by 3 centimeters in 10 days". They are all marketing gimmicks - the so-called heightening is to temporarily straighten your spine that has been bent for several years. After a while, the habit will return. Over-training the right-angled shoulders makes it difficult to even raise your arms to play ball, and it is not worth the gain.

There are indeed more deceptive orthodontists on the market than reliable ones, and many people fall for them just because they don’t know how to pick them. Let me teach you the simplest way to judge: I will take a standing photo of you when you come up, and count out 10 8 questions that will cost you tens of thousands of yuan to get stuck 10 times, so hurry up and leave. A reliable orthodontist's assessment alone will take 15 to 20 minutes. They will measure your static stance, range of joint mobility, dynamic gait, and force exertion mode. They will also have to ask you whether you have any old injuries or inexplicable pain. Only after you understand the root cause can you tell how to adjust it.

The longer we work in this business, the more we feel that we are actually "body tuners". If your piano is out of tune, you will definitely not be able to adjust it correctly by yourself. Find a reliable master to tune it correctly. Only by paying attention to maintenance can you keep using it smoothly. The same goes for your body. The orthodontist only helps you put the misaligned parts back on track. You still have to rely on your own subsequent usage habits - you can't just turn around and sit on the sofa and scroll through your phone for 8 hours after the adjustment. No matter how good your skills are, it's useless.