How are you sitting right now?
It probably depends where you picked up theWire. Perhaps you’re reading it at your kitchen table over coff ee, or at the bus stop. Maybe you picked it up in a waiting room. But I’ll bet you something: I’ll bet your head is bent over the magazine, and your shoulders are rounded forward and your upper back is hunched.
Stop for a minute and think about the muscles in the back of your neck, across the tops of your shoulders and between your shoulder blades.
I feel sorry for those muscles, don’t you? They spend so much of the day bent over as we look at phones or computers or papers. It’s not our fault. Our modern lives mean that we have to do these things! So our body curves around that focal point. Our heads are forward and our shoulders are rounded.
The worst of it is that when we concentrate on things, we stop moving.
Staying still, particularly in a slightly over-stretched position, is really bad for our muscles. They’re not meant to work like that. Even the muscles of your neck - which are pretty amazing when you think about how they hold the weight of your head up all day long – should be moving around a bit. When they stay still, problems begin. The muscle stiff ens, and the connective tissue around it stiff ens too. Before long the muscles become fatigued, and they also start to stick to the tissue around them. This makes things even worse! We start to feel sore and tight, and it’s uncomfortable to move.
So what? Well, This posture looks unattractive, compromises our sleep, and strains the neck joints. But also, strained muscles lose their mobility - you’ll fi nd you can’t look over your shoulder easily. There’s a constant low-grade pain at the back of your neck, and there are headaches! The muscles that raise your shoulders - that you feel just above and inside your shoulder blades - are a prime suspect in persistent headaches, particularly those frontal headaches that feel as though they are pressing down over your eyebrows.
We are in the midst of an epidemic. And this epidemic is called staying-still-and-looking-at- things. Well, that’s what I call it! But we can help ourselves. We can exercise; we can stretch. And we can seek help from massage therapists. Because massage helps those muscles relax. It brings blood fl ow to the tissue and releases those stuck bits and those over-tightened or over-stretched muscle areas.
Back and shoulder pain have become part of our normal life because reading, writing, and screens have become part of our normal life . But you don’t have to put up with the pain. With a helping hand from massage, you can tackle it, with your shoulders back and your head held high!
Kindly provided by Rosie@Therapeutic Massage 07812 049 590
Don’t suff er in silence!
Therapeutic massage can treat back pain, headaches, stress and much more.
Find out how I can help you
Rosie Brown DSM Therapeutic Massage 07812 049 590
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rosie@rosiebrownmassage.co.uk Now At New Premises: RFL House, Dunblane
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