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by Dr. Brandon Chorney | Sep 10, 2019 | Health Articles
Red carpet events and runway fashion shows are the designers dream come to life. For the fashion savvy, we watch in awe and try to duplicate the styles into our lives. One accessory, without fail, that arrives each season is the undeniably loved high heel.
We love to wear them, and even convince ourselves that they are comfortable. But we forget that our feet are not the only area of our body that we are compromising for the sake of fashion.
The Cost of Fashion
The truth of the fashion industry is that it caters to a world that does not exist. Who would willingly walk out onto the street wearing a hat in the shape of a peacock and eight-inch heels, besides the lovely ladies in Sex in the City? Even many of those toned-down items that make it into the high street stores are not suitable for everyday wear. All it takes to cause an injury, and potentially long-term problems are to venture out on the town too many times in high heels with a heavy bag slung over one shoulder. The legs, the back, the shoulders, the spine, and the neck, can all suffer in your pursuit of fashion.
The Pretty Pumps
High heels are the worst culprits in the line-up because they so badly alter a person’s natural balance, throwing all sorts of stresses and strains in vulnerable parts of the body. The dynamic equilibrium enjoyed by a well-balanced body is ruined by high heels, and unnatural compensations take place in the body, with new movements, alignments, and restrictions.
In a nutshell, high heels increase the normal forward curve of the spine and also tip the pelvis forward. The body’s center of gravity shifts as a result. Standing barefoot allows a person to be perfectly balanced, as nature intended, with the hamstrings supporting the pelvis as they should. High heels, on the other hand, encourage the hamstrings to shorten.
Other Fashion Victim Accessories
Next on the fashion runway of pain are clothes that are too tight. When the bodies movement is restricted and or changed, the body has to compensate.
Following not far behind in the guilty line-up is heavy bags, purses, backpacks or briefcases, and the people who load into them far too much stuff. A bag that weighs more than 10% of your body weight causes the body to become imbalanced, especially when it is carried over one shoulder or in one hand because the natural tendency is to lift up the carrying shoulder and lean the body to the opposite side to compensate. The legs and arms then become less coordinated and the spine curves towards the weight-bearing shoulder.
Men’s Fashion Faux Pas
Less dangerous is the practice of carrying a hefty wallet in your back pockets. Less hazardous perhaps, but more insidious in the fact that many people will not even give it a second thought. However, this can cause discomfort over a day, especially if you are sitting on it for part of the time because the muscle will be dented by the item, causing pain.
Fashion Forward
It may be hard, but you need to forgo certain trends for the sake of your health, where those fashions are detrimental to your health. Keep in mind the following when choosing clothes, shoes and accessories.
1. Choose comfortable shoes. If you want to wear high heels at work, and you walk to work, take the heels in a bag and walk in more comfortable flat shoes instead. Simply if a shoe feels uncomfortable when merely standing, walking in it will be infinitely worse.
2. Choose supportive shoes that have sufficient cushioning to make walking comfortable.
3. Whatever shoes you are wearing, take regular breaks from sitting to stretch out the hamstrings.
4. Don’t wear clothes so tight that they restrict your physical movements. Suit your clothes to the activities you are partaking in that day.
5. Select a bag that allows you to carry it distributed evenly on your body, rather than over one shoulder. The strap should, therefore, be padded and long enough to place over the head. If the bag is on one shoulder or in one hand, swap it frequently from one side to the other to share the burden.
6. Remove any unnecessary items from your bag to make it lighter.
7. Remove your wallet from your back pocket when sitting or driving for any length of time.
Lasting Image
Remember that you can be stylish and healthy at the same time. Protect your health is actually the most “EnVogue” thing you can do.
by Dr. Brandon Chorney | Jun 19, 2018 | Health Articles
We all love movie soundtracks. The music can transport us right into the story and lift us high, allow us to cry, or give us reasons to hide under our covers in fear. Now just think about if our lives all had theme music playing in the background. In reality, the sound effects or theme...
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by Dr. Brandon Chorney | May 29, 2018 | Health Articles
Have you ever wondered how life imitates nature? As a tribute to one of my favorite movies, the Karate Kid, I would like reference one of my first encounters of understanding posture and its relationship to nature through the lesson that was taught using the Bonsai tree. The ancient Japanese art form of growing Bonsai trees is fascinating. Bonsai trees are essentially normal shrubs that have been consistently stressed in a particular way for a long time to create a posture not naturally found in nature. Depending on how the tree is stressed while it grows, it may end up looking like a miniature version of a full-sized tree, or it may end up looking like a wild tangle of branches with twists and loops.
The Alignment Connection
To most people, “good posture” means sitting and standing up straight. Very few of us realize how important our posture is to our overall health and performance.
The human body craves alignment. When we are properly aligned, our bones, not our muscles, support our weight, reducing effort and strain on our nervous system.
The big payoff with proper posture is that we feel healthier, have more energy, plus we move and age more gracefully. So while the word “posture” may conjure up images of John Wayne in the old country and western classics or book-balancing school girls, it is not just about standing up straight. It’s about being aware of and connected to every part of yourself.
Health Right From The Start
From the very beginning of our children’s lives, we are always creating guidelines to help form and develop them into the healthy adults that they will become. As parents of this generation, we have encountered a new force that is creating bends and twists in our children’s postures – the smartphones and electronic devices. This repetitive activity over time is now grooming our children’s’ postures to the predictable head forward posture and rolled shoulders. With the unhealthy bends, we see them all to clear results of back pain, headaches, short attention spans, depression, indigestion, reflux, high blood pressure, asthma and thyroid problems that are plaguing our youth.
It is important to remember that good posture should rank right up at the top of the list when you are talking about optimal health. It is as important as eating right, exercising, getting proper rest and avoiding potentially harmful substances like alcohol, drugs, and tobacco. Think of good posture as a way of doing things with more energy, less stress, and fatigue.
Did You Know?
- Without good posture, you cannot be physically, chemically or mentally fit.
- Without good posture, you can physically damage your spine every time you exercise.
- Without good posture, your nerves will not communicate properly with your glands and organs, resulting in all kinds of degeneration and potential chronic diseases.
Start Strong – Stay Strong!
As in nature, the earlier one begins a healthy lifestyle, the healthier and less dis-ease they will experience.
Is Chiropractic for children too? By all means. Miracles can occur every day in Chiropractic with the right adjustment, tailored to the individual’s size, age, shape, and need.
What Does Your Posture Say About You?
Contact us today and schedule a posture exam. Your posture will be telling all of us more than you think!
by Dr. Brandon Chorney | Aug 17, 2017 | Health Articles
We are in full swing of the 21st century with all its benefits but also alarming detriments. All correspondence is now primarily virtual. Interactions between humans, may it be business, casual acquaintances and worse, our more intimate partners has now become smart technology hands-free operations based. With so much time spent in our virtual world,...
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by Dr. Brandon Chorney | Feb 7, 2017 | Health Articles
“As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.”
Have you ever wondered how life imitates nature?
As I sit in my office and think ahead to the spring season, I look at one of my favorite quotes by Alexander Pope placed on a beautiful picture of a Bonsai tree. From there I sit and visualize its precise application of Chiropractic care to the health, strength, and longevity we hope to achieve with proper balance and growth.
First, is To Understand
The ancient Japanese art form of growing Bonsai trees is fascinating. Bonsai trees are standard shrubs that have been consistently stressed in a particular way for a long time to create a posture which would never be found naturally in nature. Depending on how the tree is stressed while it grows, it may end up looking like a miniature version of a full-sized tree, or it may end up looking like a wild tangle of branches with twists and loops.
Second, is the Vision
To most people, “good posture” only means sitting and standing up straight. Few of us realize the importance of posture to our health and performance.
Our human body literally craves alignment. When we are properly aligned, our bones, not our muscles, support our weight, reducing effort and strain on our nervous system.
When our body is in proper alignment with the help of correct posture we are rewarded as we are healthier, have more energy, plus we move and age more gracefully.
So while the word “posture” may conjure up images of book-balancing school girls, it is not just about standing up straight. It is about being aware of your posture being wholly connected to your body’s health and wellbeing.
Posture and Chiropractic
As a chiropractor, we know and try to help you understand that posture ranks right up at the top of the list when you are talking about optimal health. It is as important as eating right, exercising, getting proper rest and avoiding potentially harmful substances like alcohol, drugs, and tobacco.
Ideally, our bones stack up one upon the other: the head rests directly on top of the spine, which sits directly over the pelvis, which sits directly over the knees and ankles. But if you spend hours every day sitting in a chair, if you hunch forward or balance your weight primarily on one leg, the muscles of your neck and back have to carry the weight of the body rather than it being supported by the spine. The resulting tension and joint pressure can affect you not only physically, but emotionally and chemically too.
One of our goals as a chiropractor is to correct the misalignments releasing the tension on the delicate nerve tissues which will, in turn, release the pressure of the muscles that become tight and inflamed trying to protect the injured area(s). As the body is twisting and shifting to protect an injured area another area of the spine and body can and will become compromised.
Good vs. Bad
Good posture is a way of doing things with more energy, less stress, and fatigue.
- Without good posture, you cannot be optimally physically, chemically or mentally fit.
- Without good posture, you can actually physically damage your spine every time you exercise.
- Without proper posture, your nerves will not communicate properly with your glands and organs, resulting in all kinds of degeneration and potential chronic diseases.
Is Chiropractic for Children Too?
From the very beginning of our children’s lives, we are always creating guidelines to help form and develop them into the healthy adults that they will become. As parents of this generation, we have encountered a new force that is creating bends and twists in our children’s postures – the smartphones and electronic devices. This repetitive activity over time is now grooming our children’s postures into the predictable head forward posture and rolled shoulders.
With the unhealthy curves, we see, the path of our children’s health is becoming all too clear with the rising complaints of back pain, headaches, short attention spans, depression, indigestion, reflux, high blood pressure, asthma and thyroid problems at earlier ages.
As in nature, the earlier one begins a healthy lifestyle, the healthier and less disease they will experience.
So by all means, Chiropractic care should be considered first either actively or proactively as it is a safe, effective and drug-free way to better health for all ages. All care is tailored to the individual’s size, age, shape, and needs.
Your Posture Is the Window To Your Health
What does your posture say about you and your family?
Contact us today and schedule a posture exam. Your posture will be telling all of us more than you think!
“As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.”