Support belts for back pain are the best use for any type of posture support or posture aid you may have purchased. If you are experiencing a lot of back pain, whether the pain be upper or lower back, you need the extra support. Increasing the surrounding back muscle’s strength makes wearing support belts for [...]

Understanding postural development is a good way to figure out why your posture isn’t exactly how you’d like it to be, or why you just don’t have good posture. Your posture forms as a response to your normal daily activities and your body’s ability to counteract anything that’s not good for it. Postural development occurs [...]

When spending so many hours in front of a computer everyday for years, it’s only natural that problems can develop. Based on the people walking into my office, extended computer use leads to neck and upper back pain. The pain can go on for years before the person decides that it’s simply not going to [...]

People regularly experiencing pain between the shoulder blades has become more common with frequent computer use. That burning, achy pain that is relieved somewhat by sitting up straight has become regular occurrence in the workplace. So how does it start? What make that pain likely to show up with daily activities that you’re doing? If [...]

Upper back muscle pain is usually a warning sign that your posture is in need of some additional help. Muscles that fatigue and give way to pain at the end of the day are usually the ones being overworked. They just can’t hold up your head and neck any more. They’re tired, weak, and unable [...]

There seems to be no end to the questions about how someone might change their bad posture without exercise. Posture supports, posture aids, and posture vests are just a few of the things out there trying to convince you that you don’t need exercise to help correct something that you exercised your way into. I [...]

Your spine has several curves, including a “kyphotic” curve in the mid back. When most people grow concerned about developing a postural kyphosis, they are really concerned that the curve has become too much. In order to properly address this issue, we really should divide the people into two groups; those that do have an [...]

Does it really matter what type of exercise you do to improve your posture? Are there specific posture exercises? Of course! Just as there are certain movements and exercises you would do if you were trying to get bigger arms or a bigger chest, the same principle applies to strengthening the muscles you use for [...]