Habits Shape Your Posture and Health
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Speaker: [00:00:00] There is no such thing as the movement fairy when we lose the tooth. We're young. A tooth fairy comes to visit and gives you money in exchange for your tooth, and as we get older. Some people believe that there's this sort of movement ferry that visits us in the middle of the night and leaves us to wake up and suffer from bad posture, uh, terrible walking patterns and just weakness and stiffness throughout our body.
Well, there is no movement fairy, and no one will be so cruel, but. I will say you did not just wake up feeling like that. It came from something. [00:01:00] Well, it came from you and your habits. You see your body adapts to what you do every single day. You are training to have better posture or not.
You are training to have stronger legs or more mobility throughout your spine or not. And what we repeatedly do is what we repeatedly tell our bodies what is comfortable. I have this patient who I've been seeing off and on. For a few months now, and she's been coming to me with this stiffness, pain, uh, tightness right in the front of her hip.
Now she is somewhat flexible, uh, in a way that she is like [00:02:00] hypermobile. Right, like she can bend over to touch her toes. But if you were to get her to do a very specific movement, you know, for her it's this posterior tilt of the pelvis. When she's, uh, attempting to stretch her, her hip flexors, then she actually feels that, oh yeah, that feels tight now.
Her pain. Hasn't consistently been getting better because of the habits that she has. So now after a a few, a few weeks, and I ask, what position are you lounging in? What position do you find to be the most comfortable that you find yourself in most often? And she says. The long- sitting position.[00:03:00]
This is when you're sitting up and your legs are straight out in front of you. And I said, well, that explains it. She says, when I'm working, I know there's a lot of sitting, but I have a standing desk.
I said, I'm willing to bet that you're arching your back, leaning forward on just one leg over the desk- This patient, she was unaware that the work that I'm doing in the clinic is being completely reversed when she is out of the clinic, when she finds herself to be in these more comfortable,
if you are struggling to figure out what sort of habits may be negatively impacting. Your body or condition, please consult me at kinesmovement.com [00:04:00] and I can definitely help you with that. But for now, I need you to know and remember this, your body reflects your habits. Take ownership of your movement. Do more, wait less.
I'll see you on the next one.
