Can poor posture cause pain in the arm? The answer to this commonly asked question depends on the origin of arm pain. Arm pain can originate locally in the arm or it could be a referred pain (coming from another part of the body). In this blog, lets discuss if poor posture cause pain in the arm ...
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Have you ever been to the doctor for back or joint pain and he has advised that go for a scans, i.e. MRI or CT scan or X ray? The scan results come back and they do not coincide with your pain levels. Maybe you have excruciating pain but all your scans show are some minor degenerative changes. Or there are extensive changes in your scans but you don’t have any major pain symptoms. In this blog, lets discuss why your pain levels and scan results may not coincide ...
Hamstrings tightness is a common occurrence in the modern society with our sedentary lifestyles and long sitting hours. Most people associate hamstrings tightness with only the back of the thighs. However, tightness of the hamstrings can be a cause of your lower back or pelvic pain. The reason is that the hamstrings are attached to the ischial tuberosity, which are a bony area on the lower end of the pelvis. Interestingly, these are the bones that we sit on, thus they are also referred to as ‘sit bones’. Lets look at the five most common reasons for hamstring tightness ....
Tech neck is a poor posture when a person looks down or protrudes the neck forwards to browse or work on their phone, tablets or laptop. Usually tech neck is associated with prolonged use of devices without keeping the cervical spine in a neutral posture. It is also known as forward head posture, nerd neck or scholars neck. This is a commonly seen and it affects a majority of the population. Apart from the pain and discomfort, tech neck can also cause sleep disturbances. In this blog lets dicuss some easy tips to manage tech neck (forward head posture) for better and improved sleep patterns ....
Human bodies were not made for static postures. We are meant to be move at frequent intervals throughout the day. But this has become rare as most of us have a nine to five job and some of us work even longer hours. In this blog lets discuss why do you need to move during your long work hours and how you can incorporate movement into your daily life without taking out extra time from your busy schedule ...
