Dear Friends of Roscoe Chiropractic,
Spring begins this month! This is something to celebrate. Thank you everyone for referring in your friends and family in February, we have a nice donation of oatmeal to take to the food pantry. Remember you are welcome to bring in any donations and we will happily take them to the food pantry if you can't get them there yourself. Keep your eyes on our website for any new specials and for information on our Featured Supplement from Standard Process. I also encourage you all to share your testimony about chiropractic. We will be putting them up on the website. Encourage others to seek help just by sharing how you have been helped.
Today I wanted to share some information on posture. The relationship between the brain, the spinal cord and organ function is very closely tied. The most common form of bad posture results in what is called forward head posture. This can be caused by several things including car accident, forceps delivery at birth, sporting accidents and also our societies habit of sitting slumped in front of a TV or a computer or constantly staring down at a phone while texting.
This forward head posture eliminates the backward curve in your neck and forces your upper back and shoulders to compensate for holding up the weight of your head. The human head weighs at least 8 pounds (Jerry Maguire quote anyone?) and with every inch it is held out in front of the body it adds ten pounds of added pressure on your back and shoulders. This in turn forces the vertebrae out of alignment and puts pressure on the nerves in your neck as they travel through the spinal cord. Those nerves control the function of a variety of organs in your body. Some possible complications include stomach issues, headache and problems breathing.
So what can be done, you ask? Simple, gentle chiropractic adjustments will correct this forward head posture and relive the stress on your shoulders, upper back and realign the vertebrae to hold the head in the correct position over your shoulders. I speak from experience on this issue because my neck did not have the proper curve in it when I started seeing Dr. Chris and this caused my headaches and probably a lot of my nausea issues, both of which I no longer struggle with.
If you have further questions please feel free to contact us via this email address or on our contact page at the website.
Stay healthy and happy this week!
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