Humans are naturally creatures of movement. The human body is designed to allow comfortable movement patterns through our sometimes unpredictable environment. However, today’s culture certainly does not promote regular movement and unfortunately offers way too many “solutions” that make our lives just a little too easy. We sit in our cars to drive to work, we sit at our desks for hours at a time, then we sit back in our cars to drive home where we typically sit down to eat dinner and watch TV. You get the picture, the average American simply doesn’t move enough!

By now, the public is well aware of the effects that this inactivity has on our health. Sedentary lifestyles are one of the top risk factors for diabetes, heart disease, and obesity. Unfortunately, the dangers of inactivity don’t end there. As we’ll examine, the lack of regular physical activity can lead to significant postural imbalances, and eventually, severe pain!

Hours upon hours of sitting is a great example of improper use of the body. While it may be an essential part of most modern day occupations, it is one of the leading causes of postural imbalance. Neutral alignment of the spine is absolutely critical in preparing the body to safely absorb any external force or strain. Yet, the ability to maintain neutral spinal alignment in the modern day lifestyle has seemingly become a non existent skill.

When the spine is out of alignment at any level, muscular imbalances manifest themselves in peoples’ posture and can cause not only pain, but also acute and chronic injury. If you look at the typical American adult who sits most of the day, they spend many hours a day with their back, head and shoulders rounded forward. This puts the muscles of the back in a constant state of being stretched, while the anterior muscles of the chest, hips and shoulders remain shortened. The result? Improper function of the muscles and eventually, the joints. Once the body learns to stay in this state, the malfunctions will lead to internal pain.

Sitting for long periods of time creates several classic postural deviations that can become irreversible it the tissues and bones adapt to them.

One of the most common deviations is known as kyphosis-lordosis, which is an increase in the normal inward curve of the lumbar spine (low back), often accompanied by a protruding abdomen, increased curvature of the thoracic spine (mid back), and a forward tilted head. This one is easy to recognize, I’m sure you all have seen that person in the office who always looks like they’re listening intently to what you’re saying by leaning their head in. Chances are, they’re not listening at all! LOL

Another classic postural deviation that develops from prolonged periods of sitting is the flat-back posture. This usually develops as a result of resting the lower back on a surface like a chair or couch, and results in a decrease in the normal inward curve of the lower back. The pelvis, in turn, develops a posterior (backward) tilt. If this goes uncorrected, it leads to tightness and pain in the upper abdominals and weakness in the lower back and hip extensors.

Finally, sway-back posture can develop simply by reacting to forces that are constantly in front of you, which is what most work demands call for (ie. working on a computer, writing, using a telephone at a desk, etc.). This postural deviation is trademarked by a long outward curve of the mid back with an over accentuated curve of the lower back. It’s usually accompanied by rounded shoulders and a severely sunken chest, which can also lead to abdominal tightness and hip flexors.

If you have gotten this far, you have probably noticed you were not sitting in an optimal position in your chair and adjusted yourself!
The point here is these imbalances can occur just by performing your typical everyday activities. You can combat this partly through your own awareness of where your body is in space at all times. But, even more so, you can prevent these problems by staying active, performing strength training and stretching, and getting regular exercise!

If the prospects of obesity and illness aren’t motivation enough to get yourself moving, hopefully the prospect of living with every day pain is daunting enough to get up and start exercising!!

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