Power of POSTURE

Are you sitting bolt upright while reading this? Then give yourself a pat on the back. Posture problems are on the rise with excessive device use and our increasingly inactive lifestyles, leaving many of us slumped, slouched and hunched – with alarming health consequences.

In fact, an alarming statistic shows more than 6.6 million working days are lost due to musculoskeletal disorders, and 65% of people are experiencing neck and back pain at least once a month.

A SLOUCH EPIDEMIC

So what are we doing wrong? One of the main causes of terrible posture is that as a nation, we’re simply not moving enough. A sedentary lifestyle, being slumped over a device, remaining in the same hunched position for too long and not exercising enough are to blame. And as we get older, our muscles become weaker and so the effects of gravity pulling us down into a stooped, collapsed position are harder to overcome.

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