Improve Your Spine Health, Improve Mobility and Eliminate Back Pain

You should always be concerned about the health of your spine. Your spine is the home of your central nervous system, which controls your entire body. When your spine is misaligned or damaged, it hurts more than your back – it can cause headaches, joint pain, digestive disorders, and just about every other health ailment you can think of. Luckily, there are things you can do to improve the health of your spine.

The most important thing you can do on your own is to correct your posture. So many people have poor posture, and poor posture contributes to poor spine health. Common posture mistakes are slumping, rounded shoulders, keeping one’s head too far forward of the shoulders, and keeping one’s lower back curved too much. If a person makes a conscious effort every day to stand and sit properly, it can do wonders for the spine. Just make sure your corrections are correct. Make sure you get advice from a doctor or chiropractor in regards to exactly which steps you should take to correct your posture. You might know that you’re standing or sitting in a way that is bad for your spine, but trying to correct it without knowing exactly how can damage your spine even worse.

It is also crucial that you invest in good pillows and a good mattress. You spend more than half of your life in bed, and if your mattress is bad it can severely damage your spine, which is bad for you in so many ways. Make sure your mattress is firm enough, but not too firm, and get your doctor’s advice as to whether you should invest in a bed that is foam and therefore remembers your body shape, or if you require some other special type of mattress or pillow.

In some cases, yoga and Pilates are very beneficial to spine health. If you stretch and stack your spine often, it can help keep you limber and therefore help your body adjust to and conquer all the stressors that plague it on a day to day basis. Staying fit with cardio and some weight training is important, but yoga and Pilates, done correctly and under the supervision of a professional, can be very beneficial to spinal health.

Finally, if you are in bad enough shape with your spinal cord, you may have to wear corrective footwear. This happens a lot in people who have walked incorrectly for a long amount of time – either with their feet turned in (sometimes called pigeon toed) or with their feet turned out. This can cause the legs and hips to function improperly, thus damaging the spine and making it so that the entire body is out of alignment. A doctor can tell you if you need this corrective footwear, and often times it is covered by insurance.

Overall health of the spine is something that should be top of mind for anyone who cares about fitness and health. In addition to eating a healthy diet full of fruits and vegetables, a person needs to do what they can to maintain a healthy spine. This will keep the rest of the body functioning properly, and lead to a longer, happier, and healthier life.

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