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BalancedLifeChiropractic-EP232 - Posture · Back To The Basics In Healthcare

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  Speaker 1: Time out for back to the basics in healthcare with
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  Speaker 1: Balanced Life Chiropractic, we have doctor Harley with that's hello.
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  Speaker 2: Doctor Harley, Hey John, how are you today? I'm good.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to talk about posture. And this is one
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  Speaker 1: of those things that you know, everybody's a little different,
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  Speaker 1: but there's probably is it right and wrong or is
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  Speaker 1: there like shades of gray when it comes to good posture.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the better your posture is, the happier your
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  Speaker 2: spine is going to be. I feel like that's kind
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  Speaker 2: of so like, yeah, you could have like my postures whatever,
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  Speaker 2: but then you wonder why you have, you know, aches
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  Speaker 2: pains in various places. You know, I always walk into
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  Speaker 2: a room if I'm doing like a talk or meeting people,
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  Speaker 2: is it, oh yeah, my chiropractor, Everyone immediately sits up streams.
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  Speaker 2: I have a nice, good posture, that's great and all,
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  Speaker 2: But how long does it take for them to go
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  Speaker 2: back to they're not.
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  Speaker 1: So great posture, a little slouchy.
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  Speaker 2: Right, you know, And you can think of like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: a good posture, But what's happening when you're not consciously
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  Speaker 2: thinking of your posture? You know, people driving to work
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  Speaker 2: right now, how's your postures. Loo while you're driving your car,
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  Speaker 2: are you lean into one side or you got both
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  Speaker 2: hands on the steering wheel, you know, leaning forward, really
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  Speaker 2: angry looking you know, you know, yeah, and check yourself
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  Speaker 2: right now. I kind of think your posture is like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: that's probably why. And the longer your commute is and
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  Speaker 2: the worse your posture is, you know, you probably wonder
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  Speaker 2: why you have a neck pain or back pain by
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  Speaker 2: the time you get to work or by the time
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  Speaker 2: you go home.
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  Speaker 1: I heard posture used as one of the weirdest compliments
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  Speaker 1: for somebody. There was a person who was at a
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  Speaker 1: comedy event for the very first time. They tried to
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  Speaker 1: do comedy and it didn't go well. But then afterwards
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  Speaker 1: I was like, he was he was kind of fine,
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  Speaker 1: and the guy said he had excellent posture. I'm like that,
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  Speaker 1: that's all you have to say, he had excellent posture.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, well, at least he's got that.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, do you never just look around look at
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  Speaker 2: people when you're out shopping or people watching, like, wow,
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  Speaker 2: they really bed posture. I mean I see that a lot. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: you have a chiropractor set see posture all day every day,
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  Speaker 2: and there's those people that like their heads so crane
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  Speaker 2: from like, how next neck? How does their neck not her?
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  Speaker 2: You know, they're standing up, they're standing up straight, you know,
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  Speaker 2: air quotes, but their heads so far forward. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Is that more prevalent now than before because of people
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  Speaker 1: texting and on their social media and on their phones
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  Speaker 1: and oh definitely.
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  Speaker 2: That's how we call it tech neck or student neck.
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  Speaker 2: I mean before it was called military neck because you know,
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  Speaker 2: you know, military people have to stand up, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you know, ramrod straight kind of things. We see, you know,
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  Speaker 2: a loss of a curve in their neck too from that.
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  Speaker 2: But I mean even before technology, you know, magazines, books, newspapers,
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  Speaker 2: you know, there's other things, but we weren't as like
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  Speaker 2: glued to those things like we are to our phones
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  Speaker 2: or technology where you can waste two hours and not
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  Speaker 2: even have moved. Yeah, because you're just so ingrained with
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  Speaker 2: whatever you're watching on your screen. And it's that prolonged
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  Speaker 2: amount of bad posture that really starts to add up. Sure,
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  Speaker 2: if you catch yourself always doing it for five minutes, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: I'm back to good posture. And we're doing that most
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  Speaker 2: of the time, not so bad. But if you're like
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  Speaker 2: bad posture over you know, fifty percent of the day,
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  Speaker 2: and like I said, you fix it. You're like, oh God,
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  Speaker 2: but how long's it takes before you go back to
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  Speaker 2: that slouching bad posture?
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  Speaker 1: What are some good posture tips? If I'm sitting at
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  Speaker 1: a desk all day, is there something I could do
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  Speaker 1: to have better posture while I'm sitting at that desk
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  Speaker 1: all day?
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  Speaker 2: Definitely, Like you know, check your desk set up. Is
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  Speaker 2: your screen up at eye level so you're not having
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  Speaker 2: to look up or look down at your screen? Are
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  Speaker 2: your feet flat on the floor when you're sitting on
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  Speaker 2: your chair, or if you're a little bit shorter, are
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  Speaker 2: your feet hanging and dangling? If that's the case, you know,
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  Speaker 2: getting like a stool or something you can keep your
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  Speaker 2: feet flat on. Or if you're really tall, do you
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  Speaker 2: feel like your hips are more or less than a
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  Speaker 2: ninety degree angle? Always look at ninety degree angles is
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  Speaker 2: kind of the ideal. When you're sitting hips at ninety degrees,
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  Speaker 2: knees at ninety degrees, elbows at ninety degrees, then you're
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  Speaker 2: not over exerting under exerting.
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  Speaker 1: Some days, it feels like our studios at ninety degrees.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm talking about temperatuation. And I sit in a
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  Speaker 1: bean bag?
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  Speaker 2: Is that bad? That sucks? Kidding? I mean, if you're
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  Speaker 2: slouching in it, not so great. I had the conversation
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  Speaker 2: with the patient earlier. We're talking about posture because they're
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  Speaker 2: like when I sit at home, if I was like, well,
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  Speaker 2: are you sitting in a chair? Are you sitting on
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  Speaker 2: the couch? You know, either one of those things. You know,
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  Speaker 2: if you're like kind of slouching into it and then
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  Speaker 2: you get up and you wonder why your back hurts,
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  Speaker 2: it's because you lose that curve when you are slouching
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  Speaker 2: into your couch. Or if it feels like your armchair
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  Speaker 2: or couch is like eating you, it probably needs more cushion.
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  Speaker 1: But what if you're reclining, you're kicked back and relying.
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  Speaker 1: Is that better or is that worse?
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  Speaker 2: It again depends if you feel like your back's like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, if you're keeping a nice, good like curve
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  Speaker 2: back like basically your belly sticking out, your butt's kind
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  Speaker 2: of sticking back like, that's you know, kind of the
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  Speaker 2: ideal lumbar curve. So if you feel like you're slouching inward,
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  Speaker 2: that's not so good.
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  Speaker 1: So when I reclined back, I got a ledg ra
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  Speaker 1: here to put popcorn on. Is that bad? That has
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  Speaker 1: more to do with my front than my back?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean probably more of an issue.
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  Speaker 1: So I suppose when somebody is overweight, that probably makes
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  Speaker 1: a difference in their posture as well, doesn't it.
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  Speaker 2: Right, it's a lot more weight for your joints to
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  Speaker 2: have to handle and carry. I actually just had a
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  Speaker 2: follow up with a patient. I hadn't seen them in
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  Speaker 2: over a year, and they lost over one hundred pounds.
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  Speaker 1: Oh wow.
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  Speaker 2: And when we took their x rays we could see
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  Speaker 2: how much that weight loss helped her spine. That is
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  Speaker 2: amazing because like before her lumbar curve, it was like
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  Speaker 2: a super tight see because like you know, all that
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  Speaker 2: belly weight was pulling her forward and then you're trying
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  Speaker 2: to compensate pulling backwards. And now without all of that
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  Speaker 2: extra weight, she's standing up a lot taller.
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  Speaker 1: If somebody listening has gone I could use some help,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's with your posture or maybe it's with something else.
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  Speaker 1: I'd just have a pain in my back or a
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  Speaker 1: pain in my neck, or I've got a pain somewhere
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  Speaker 1: that Chiropractic might help. How do they connect with you?
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  Speaker 2: Yea as simple as given us a call. Our phone
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  Speaker 2: number is six or five two one five one seven
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  Speaker 2: eighty five, or you can reach out to us on
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  Speaker 2: our Facebook page at balance Like Chiropractic. And we do
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  Speaker 2: have a book online button on our website.
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  Speaker 1: Very nice. That website is Balanced Life sd dot com