There are 4 steps to long term postural correction:
- Awareness – Understanding that your posture needs improving and can be improved.
- Flexibility – Restoring movement to tight structures that are limiting good posture. Eg if your chest is so tight that you physically can’t straighten your upper back then there is no point telling yourself to stand up tall. Until flexibility is restored in the tight structures nothing else is going to change.
- Strength/control – Learning to activate the postural muscles that will hold you in good posture for longer.
- Persistence – Having simple triggers throughout the day that remind you to be posturally better … eventually it will become a habit but initially we need to create that habit.
Next we will look at low back posture and how to improve it.
