Did you know the average head ways the same as a bowling ball?  Imagine carrying a 16 pound bowling ball around all day.  Now instead of carrying it close to your body carry out away from your body.  It's not so easy.  That's exactly what happens when your head posture is forward or backward or tilted to one side even if 1 degree. A forward head posture can add up to 30 pounds of tension on the back of the neck and the shoulders.  This will also create imbalances along your entire spine.

Faulty posture can certainly lead to an unattractive appearance, loss of height, drooping shoulders, and a sagging chest.  But healthy posture isn't just about looking good.

Rene Cailliet, MD, previously a clinical professor with the University of Southern California School of Medicine, warns that slouching can place tremendous stress on your spine causing a loss of energy, affecting your chest and lung capacity by as much as 30%, and adversely affect your bowel function.

In chiropractic we have a saying, as the tree is bent so it grows.  As a hunched position becomes your "norm", your muscles adapt to a poorly aligned spine. Then they don't stretch like they once did because of muscle memory!

Shortened muscles and ligaments become stiff and painful, creating a dysfunction of your spinal joints. This poor posture can lead to headaches, back pain, shoulder, hip, knee and ankle pain.

A recent study, at Queen Mary Hospital in Hong Kong, looked at the relationship between forward head posture, neck pain, and disability.  Researchers found that the greater the forward head posture, the greater the neck related disability.

A consistent program of Chiropractic care can help "retrain" your supportive soft tissues to hold your neck joints in proper positions. Restoring head, neck and spinal posture is a process.

It is easy to check posture and the sooner it is addressed the sooner and often easier it is to make corrections.  I would be honored to look at your posture and let you know what my trained eyes see.  You won't have to undress and the procedure is painless.  When completed you will have a baseline and more importantly what can be done to correct it.