Do you know by not paying attention to how we stand, sit, walk,and how we sleep has an adverse effect on the health of our internal organs and on our back, neck and shoulders?

People that are always in a round back or round shoulder posture will always have a shortness of breathe and inevitably have upper back and neck pain, why? First look at the posture, there is no room for the lungs to expand whenever you are breathing! Therefore breathing will always short, not enough oxygen to circulate and feed the body.

And these same people will suffer upper back and neck pain, why? Their upper back is flexed 24 hours, 7 days a week, which molds your body into that form. The inter-vertebral disc in this area are compressed on the front side of the disc, therefore blood flow will be deprived in that area, and will one day, if not moved, will deteriorate, become wedge-shaped and permanently damaged. Having this hunched-back posture will likely suffer impinged nerves and final spinal degeneration. Having this slouched posture prevents blood to flow into the front side of the thoracic disc, therefore preventing nourishment in this area and will cause the front side of the disc to literary die!

Now what has neck pain got to do with this? Since your upper body is flexed forward, your head will naturally flexed forward and since we need to see the path in front of us, our head will be forced to tilt backward and cause our neck to hyper-extend, and thereby the back of the cervical disc be compressed. The same thing that happens to the upper back spinal disc will occur in the neck disc, with the difference of having the compressed disc in the back of the neck, instead of the front of the disc at the thoracic spine which happens in a round forward or hunched back posture.

Now the good part is, you can do something about it, MOVE, Keep ACTIVE and EXERCISE!