One of the great joys of autumn and the leadup to Halloween is heading out to your favorite pumpkin patch and picking out a perfect candidate for your jack-o-lantern. But if you don’t use good posture while picking your pumpkin, you may wind up in a world of hurt. Poor posture can cause injuries, but performing exercises and practicing good form can prevent you from feeling pain at the pumpkin patch.
The Benefits of Good Posture
If you’re not regularly using good posture when you sit and stand, you’re missing out on some exceptional health benefits. Proper posture helps prevent low back pain, improve focus and concentration, and boost your mood and confidence. If that all sounds good, you’ll be happy to know that improving your posture is easy.
How to Improve Your Posture
If you experience back and neck pain on a regular basis, bad posture could be to blame. There are several ways that you can improve your posture if you don’t know how to get started, including performing exercises that promote better posture and wearing custom orthotic insoles. Your chiropractor can also help you fix bad posture with regular adjustments, giving you yet another reason to schedule your next appointment with Preferred Chiropractic of Midland.
Summer Yard Work Safety Tips
Love it or not, the warmer weather means it’s time to break out your mower and tools and start tending the lawn. Yard work safety is key to getting the job done quickly and correctly so you can get back to having fun or hosting. If you know how to avoid dehydration, lifting injuries, and lower back pain after mowing the lawn, you’ll be in solid shape this summer.
Avoid Back Pain from Golfing
Summer in Midland, MI, is a beautiful time of year—especially if you love hitting the links. Whether you plan to hit the back nine or play a full 18 holes, you’ll need to take steps to ensure that you make it through without pain. By taking time to stretch, pacing yourself, and using a proper golf swing, you can avoid back pain from golfing.
How to Prevent Tech Neck
Thanks to our smartphones, tablets, and computers, we’re more connected to the world than ever. But technology doesn’t come without costs, and that can include taking a toll on your physical well-being. Not using proper posture or taking enough take away from the screen can cause you to experience the symptoms of tech neck, a condition linked to the use of technology. But if you take some steps, you can prevent tech neck and use your devices pain-free.
The Importance of Workplace Ergonomics
Why is Proper Posture Essential?
Sitting All Day is a Pain in Your Back
Since computers have become essential in the workplace, the American population sits more now than ever. People are exhausted from busy schedules, long work hours, and stress, which makes them want to relax on the couch when they get home. As a result, lower back pain has become an epidemic. If you are experiencing lower back pain, your sedentary lifestyle may be the reason. If you are looking for a cure, be sure to learn why sitting at a desk all day causes low back pain.
Why Posture is Important
Snow Shoveling Safety Tips to Prevent a Sore Back
It just wouldn’t be winter without a little snow, but with all that snow comes shoveling. And with snow shoveling comes risk of injury. It doesn’t matter if you have only a few inches to clear or dealing with a full-on blizzard, you still need to practice safe technique to protect your back. Here are our snow shoveling safety tips to prevent a sore back.
Workplace Injuries and Chiropractic Care
With Labor Day just around the corner, we can’t help but think of all the patients we treat that come to us for relief from workplace injuries. You may not realize what an impact your job can have on your body. Even if it isn’t highly physical, there are many different kinds of injuries that can be sustained in the workplace. Here are some of the injuries you may face at work and how chiropractic can help you treat or avoid them altogether.
How Are You Doing with Work from Home?
We have all experienced major changes as we practice social distancing due to coronavirus. One of these changes is work from home and while you may have been doing this for months, have you checked in with how you're handling it? Going from an office to your living room is a big adjustment that can come with back and neck pain. Here are our tips to help prevent pain while working from home.
Celebrate Correct Posture Month!
If you’ve visited us here at Preferred Chiropractic, you know how important it is to maintain proper posture. Your posture is a key element of having great health, and has a larger impact on overall heath and wellness than most people realize. This month, we are celebrating Correct Posture Month — what better time to try a few of our tips to improve your posture?
Hows your Posture ?
Posture can be defined as the position in which we hold our bodies while standing, sitting, or lying down. Good posture is the correct alignment of body parts supported by the right amount of muscle tension against gravity. Without good posture and adequate amount of muscles that control it, we are likely to fall to the ground.
Practice Safe Tech Neck. 10 Tips to better Posture.
If you’re like many people, you spent countless hours seated at your desk and you may be suffering with aches and pains due to poor posture. Bad sitting habits, such as slouching or crossing your legs, can have a detrimental impact on the health of your spine. Fortunately, these bad habits can be corrected by following the tips outlines above. Simple changes to your workspace and your sitting posture can go a long way to improving the health of your spine.
Can Your Posture Affect Your Mood?
Do you check the way you are standing or sitting throughout the day? Do you make sure that your weight is distributed evenly? You probably already know how important proper posture is to your spine, but did you know it also affects your mood? A number of studies have shown that good posture can have a positive effect your mood and can even eliminate stress. Here’s what you need to know.
Winter Slips and Falls
There are three types of slip-and-fall injuries that commonly occur in winter conditions. The first is when your feet go out from under you, and you hit the ground bottom-first. This can cause low back injury, mid-back injury, and is particularly damaging when it occurs on stairs, due to the multiple angles of impact on your body. Problems resulting from this type of fall can include pelvic sprains or disc injuries, both of which can be treated with chiropractic.
Why teens should sit up straight
Researchers had 15,092 adolescents complete questionnaires about their lifestyle and experience with back pain. Their sitting posture, body mass index (BMI), and back-muscle endurance were also measured. Researchers discovered that boys were much more likely than girls to slouch. Watching TV, having a higher BMI, and having lower self-efficacy also increased a teen’s likelihood of slouching.
Time To Improve Your Work Space?
Millions of people spend a great portion of their day sitting at their desk job. That can lead to a number of negative side effects from strained eyes to a sore back. Why not make life a little bit easier (and make your body feel better) by improving your work space? Here are our tips to better the ergonomics in your office.
