Consequences Of Postural Neglect
Some people, who habitually adopt poor postures, and unaware of the underlying cause, experience back pain throughout their lifetime simply because they were not in possession of the necessary information to right the postural faults.
When pains of postural origin are first felt they are easily eliminated merely by correcting one's posture. As time passes, however, if uncorrected the habitual poor posture causes changes to the structure of the joints, excessive wear occurs, and premature ageing of the joints is a consequence. The effects of poor posture in the long term, therefore, can be just as severe and harmful as the effects of injury. Those of us who allow poor posture to persist throughout our lifetime become bent and stooped as the ageing process develops. When called upon to straighten and stand erect, we are unable to comply. When asked to turn the head, we are unable. Our mobility is now so impaired we are considered by others to be affected by the normal ageing processes.
Deformities in the elderly are the visible effects of poor postural habit. There are secondary and sometimes severe consequences when these effects are transmitted to our body organs: the lungs are constricted and our breathing affected as the back becomes bent; the stomach and other internal organs are deprived of their correct support and may well be affected adversely. It is my own opinion that the bent, stooped posture considered by many to be one of the inevitable consequences of ageing, is not at all inevitable and the time to commence preventive action is now. If we, but once a day, stand fully erect and bend fully backwards, we need never lose the ability to perform that action and therefore need never become bent, stooped and impaired in so many ways.
Most people naturally have a lordosis in the low back when they walk or run, and these activities often help to relieve low back pain. When we are standing the lordosis is naturally present but in some individuals, when the standing posture is maintained for a long time, the lordosis can become excessive and pain will be produced of a different nature than that occurring during prolonged bending.
Of all these postural stresses the poor sitting posture is by far the one most commonly at fault. A poor sitting posture in itself may produce low back pain. Once low back problems have developed, a poor sitting posture will perpetuate or worsen those problems. Poor standing postures and poor lying postures are also frequent causes of back pain. You may have already found that your back pain appears only if you stand for long periods or only after you get into bed. Pain that behaves in this way is frequently caused by poor posture alone. If this is the case, it is easily rectified.
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