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Correcting the sitting
Filed in Correct, April 10, 2009, 10:43 amSitting Correctly for Long Periods.
If you have pain resulting from factors other than just poor posture, you may need to do more than correct your posture. You may need to perform special exercises. In this chapter, I am describing only the exercises required to reduce postural stress and to obtain postural correction.
Correction of the lying posture
Filed in Correct, March 27, 2009, 7:27 amIf the lying posture itself is thought to cause neck pain, it needs to be investigated for each person individually, largely by trial and error. Consult a credentialed member or associate of the McKenzie Institute (see Appendix A). But there is one position that requires further discussion.
Correction of the sitting posture
Filed in Correct, March 24, 2009, 3:00 amYou may have been sitting slouched for many years without neck and shoulder pain. But once you have developed neck problems, you must no longer sit in the old way, because the slouched posture will only continue the overstretching discussed previously.
If you are sitting slouched, with the lower back rounded, it is not possible to [...]
