In the same way that drops of water gradually erode even the hardest surfaces, bad postural habits, in addition to being visually frightening, end up causing muscular and skeletal problems if we do not correct them in time.

These are the 'greatest hits' of anatomical incorrectness and its consequences.

CURV YOUR BACK


Why is it harmful to our health?

It is one of the most unergonomic postures that we can adopt (as well as horrifying).

And the worst of all is that

we do not realize

that we do it because, unfortunately,

we feel comfortable

.

The bad, of course, comes later when, for the sake of our anatomical health, we are forced to get rid of a habit as harmful as this one.

Because when we sit or walk hunched over and with our shoulders rotated forward, without realizing it,

our backs roll up on themselves .

, causing the appearance of hump.

In addition, all the weight of the head falls on the cervical area, becoming the source of pain and contractures that will also be felt in the lower back.

What do we do? Make an effort in our postural reeducation, straightening up and, as they say in Pilates, lengthening our back.

PLACE YOUR FEET UNDER THE CHAIR

Why is it harmful to our health?

Apparently, it is a custom like any other.

But only in appearance because, putting your feet and even your legs under the chair and, worse still, crossing them is one of the worst things we can do when we are sitting.

Especially if we adopt this position for many hours.

The reason is very simple.

By placing our feet under the chair, we compress the popliteus muscle -the one at the back of our knees- in such a way that we do not allow the cartilage to hydrate as it should to efficiently develop its functionality.

That is, without realizing it, we hinder the work of the blood vessels and the nervous system.

Total, a real anatomical disaster that, in the long run, will take its toll on us.


SIT (OR STAND) WITH YOUR ASS FRONT

Why is it harmful to our health?

Sitting with your butt forward, in addition to being a visually frightening posture that denotes carelessness and even laziness, is the ideal safe-conduct to

suffer from a complete list of back problems

, especially in its lower part.

Also, a way -very silly- to project our gut forward, enhancing its laxity.

How do we have to sit, then?

Well, the ideal would be to do it

on the sit

bones, those small bones that we have at the base of our buttocks.

By doing it like this, almost as if by magic, we will feel how our posture is repositioned and the butt is located exactly where it has to be.

And, put to ask, his thing would be to feel how our abdominal area is activated.

STAND ON ONE LEG

Why is it harmful to our health?

Although, apparently, the position can be very 'pretty' for a photo or it can be a momentary relief if we have been standing for a long time, standing on one leg is not a good idea from an anatomical point of view either.

The explanation is box.

By putting

all the weight of our body on a single support

, instead of keeping us upright by pulling our abdominal muscles and gluteal muscles, we do so

by forcing our hips and lower back

and producing an imbalance that, in the long run, it can be very harmful.

So, no matter how brash we feel in this way, the healthiest thing is to lean on both legs to, in this way, distribute the body weight properly.


FORWARD THE CHIN

Why is it harmful to our health?

Bringing the chin forward, rounding the back, rotating the shoulders and letting all the weight of the head fall (about six kilos), is another classic that we should avoid (although it costs us a lot).

Absolutely disastrous for our anatomical health, the

human gargoyle pose

is the winning ticket in any draw for neck and back pain.

To avoid falling into this authentic postural nonsense, there are several tricks.

The first (and valid for the rest of the bad postures) would be to stick a 'post it' on the computer that reminds us that we have to sit well.

The second, place our PC at a suitable height so that we do not have to make the gesture of 'looking forward'.

The third, start to reposition ourselves by throwing back the chin and, once again we return to Pilates, 'making our neck grow'.

Activating our shoulder blades

(feeling how they come together) will help us correct our way of sitting.

Finally, we must try to maintain the natural curve of the back.


CLOSE THE SHOULDERS TO THE EARS

Why is it harmful to our health?

It is another of the great successes in postural errors that, inevitably, will mean a sure sentence for us to suffer

neck, shoulder pain

and, by extension,

head.

Approaching, strangely, the shoulders to the ears as if we wanted to touch them or live in a constant shrinkage, in addition to -once again, visually frightening- it is lethal for the 'northern hemisphere' of our body due to the tremendous tension that it supposes for our cervicals and trapezoids.

And, unfortunately, this posture worsens with such everyday gestures as holding the phone between the face and the shoulder.

To banish it from our lives, we have no choice but to be aware that we are, once again, with our shoulders up and down

, relaxing them and rotating them backwards to join the scapulae

.

The most amazing of all is to see how, with such a small and natural correction, an immediate decongestion of the area is experienced.

It is certainly worth a try.


PULL YOUR ASS OUT (STANDING OR SITTING)

Why is it harmful to our health?

Sitting or walking with your butt exaggeratedly outward is not an option that is too respectful of our postural hygiene.

It is enough to do the test to experience the

brutal tension that is felt in the lower back

by favoring that lordosis or, what is popularly called '

duck ass'.

Although a slight lordosis is considered normal, if it is very acute it can become the source of discomfort and pain in the lower back.

To try to keep this tendency to 'stick ass' at bay, sometimes exacerbated by the practice of some sports disciplines, it is advisable to carry out exercises that help us maintain correct body alignment, from the head to the hips, passing through the shoulders and The abdomen.

Also, make sure that

our back maintains its natural curvature.

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