Are Rounded Shoulders causing you shoulder pain?

This is one of the main reasons patients come to my office with shoulder pain. They don't remember experiencing serious trauma like car accidents or falls.

But they forget about the daily, repetitive trauma of gravity pulling on your shoulders causing malalignment. Malalignment results from overdeveloped muscles on the front of the body and underused, stretched muscles on the back of the shoulders.

Are you worried about developing a "Hump"?

 While there is some genetic risk, most humps can be prevented.  Some younger female patients complain that they already cannot fasten a bra from the back. They have already gotten used to fastening in the front and moving it around. If you cannot fasten your bra in the back, how long can you ignore this warning sign before you decide to take action?

Are you concerned about your Forward Head Posture?

The first time you noticed this about yourself, you knew it wasn't normal. Plus, you figured it was likely causing some of the headaches, neck and upper back pain you've been dealing with off and on. What can you do? You have to use the computer everyday and that's when it hurts.

You have to counteract what your normal daily activities are doing to your head and neck. Do you expect that this problem will just get better on its own? It won't. The bad news is this will most likely get worse if you don't do something about it. The good news is it won't take nearly as much time and effort to fix your neck as it did to mess it up in the first place

You're going to have to exercise. You have to change how your muscles work. You can't keep wasting your time on things that are going to give you false hope and that can't possibly work while your posture just gets worse and worse.

    That Doesn't Have To Be You.

Yes, you have to exercise, but I don't mean for you to go jump on the treadmill or start riding a bicycle. (Even though those things are good for you.) These exercises are not an instant cure, and you may even start noticing otherwise healthy, in-shape people with signs of poor posture.

You need specific exercises and manual therapy techniques designed to get your posture straightened out in the least amount of time to get you the best results possible.