Simplest Therapies for Posture improvement?
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For most people today, the main postural ailment is something like upper crossed syndrome, or forward head posture, usually caused by constant use of computers.
I would consider this personally my one main remaining, looming, health problem. I very rarely have migraines now, but when I do, they always seem to radiate from the atlas vertebrae, which connects the skull to the neck.
When my father had excruciatingly painful back problems, he was ultimately able to treat them by bedrest mixed with regularly hanging from a chin-up bar. This hanging is something I am considering implementing myself for my less severe issues.
Has this forum had good experience with simple therapies for treating this? Obviously "sit up straight' isn't bad advice, but perhaps there is something better to help.
The twitter account here: https://x.com/spheno_xiphoid is somewhat interesting and helpful so far. As are the articles on MSK neurology: https://mskneurology.com/association-tinnitus-neck-tmj/
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@Rah1woot Katy Bowman has an excellent body of work.
Website - nutritious movement
A number of books published -
I feel that being erect and well-postured is no different from having good materials used in constructing a building.
When I finished a year of taking therapeutic magnesium, with the intent of beefing up my magnesium stores for good bowel movement without relying on eating fiber (which I had always relied on pre-Peat), and which isn't good as fiber breeds bacteria that produces serotonin for bowel movement - I noticed it seemed natural and effortless for me to stand straight (like the way Ronald Reagan would stand, for I admired his bearing).
Together with having good calcium sources in what I eat, as well as magnesium sources, especially in well cooked leaves, I found that the body would more easily support itself .
Weston Price would observe the good structure of tribal people as well. They have a natural good posture, and they don't go to fashion modeling school to walk like models would.
I had bad posture growing up. And by some twist of fate, I met a car accident and I was laid to recover in a hospital for a month, with a minor fracture at my thoracic. I was put on a cast for 3 months after being released, and was told I have to do a daily backstretch exercise to develop back muscles to further give support to the spine, weakened by the minor fracture. All these I went through and did, and my posture improved. But I don't wish a car accident on anyone, and I recommend good nutrition instead, especially with calcium and magnesium. I'll throw in the other electrolytes for good measure.
