Posture Correction Institution

Posture correction institutions are neither a "life-saving shop" that can solve all body shape and pain problems, nor are they an IQ tax trap where the entire industry is cutting leeks. Its actual effect depends entirely on the professionalism of the institution you choose, the type of your own problems, and whether you can maintain good living habits after correction.

A while ago, I went to an orthodontic shop with my best friend who has been sitting for a long time and works as a designer. At that time, her belly was as bulging as a small walnut, and her right shoulder was so painful that she could not lift the hand-drawn tablet. So, she first went to a chain institution in the business district that was decorated like an Internet celebrity cafe. The receptionist came up and took a standing photo, compared her height with a ruler, and said that her height difference was 2 centimeters and that her pelvis was tilted 3 degrees forward. She recommended the "shoulder and neck age-reversing package" 12 times on the spot, and said that her wealth would be gone after three times. As a result, my best friend did it five times. After each massage, her shoulders felt looser on the day and still hurt the next day. Her bag was not smaller at all, and her trapezius muscles were even swollen after the massage. Later, she listened to the recommendation of a doctor in the sports rehabilitation department and found a small store that opened downstairs of the fitness studio. The evaluator first asked her if she had any old injuries and whether her hands would often go numb. After taking an X-ray of her cervical spine, he said that half of her bag was the fat accumulated by lowering her head all year round, and the other half was the compensatory bulge caused by the straightening of the cervical spine. Just rubbing it was useless. First, I performed three small joint reductions to relax the tense muscles, and then gave her two small movements to practice the deep neck muscles at home, and asked her to do them for 10 minutes every day. After two months, most of the bags were flat, and the shoulder pain never happened again.

It's interesting to say that the institutions that deal with posture correction in China are naturally divided into two groups, and no one can convince the other. One group focuses on techniques. Most of the founders are Chinese medicine orthopedics or rehabilitation therapists. They firmly believe that "you can't practice without loosening": your muscles have been tense for several years and the joints are stuck. If you practice hard, it will only make the wrong force mode more and more solid. First, rub the adhering fascia and reset the misplaced small joints so that the body's stress path is clear, and then subsequent adjustments will be effective. The other group focuses on training, and they basically graduated from sports and human body science majors. They think that the techniques are "temporary placebos": your rounded shoulders are because the serratus anterior muscle is too weak and the chest muscles are too tight, and your false hips are because the gluteus medius is weak and the alignment of the lower limbs is distorted. If you don't train these weak muscles, just rely on loosening your hands to determine whether you should be tense or tense after two weeks, it is equivalent to doing nothing.

In fact, there is nothing wrong with both of these statements. There is no one who is superior to the other. If you have an acute stiff neck or have just twisted your waist and your joints are so stuck that it hurts even when you move, then find some techniques to loosen them before moving. Hard training will only aggravate the injury. ； If you just have fake hip width and XO-shaped legs that have been accumulated by sitting for a long time, and you don’t feel any pain at ordinary times, but you just don’t look good when wearing pants, then directly go to the training group to train the stabilizer muscles and adjust the force lines, and the effect will be more lasting.

Oh, by the way, don’t think that as long as you are an agency, you are reliable. The barriers to entry for this industry are ridiculously low now. I have seen many training institutions that quickly become “posture correctors” in half a month. They learn how to take posture photos and how to report anterior pelvic tilt before they open a store. Even the most basic scoliosis cannot be distinguished from ordinary high and low shoulders. There used to be a high school girl with low shoulders. She went to an institution for three months and her condition got worse and worse. When she went to the hospital to take a X-ray, she found out that she had idiopathic scoliosis, which was already 30 degrees. She would need surgery in six months. That kind of indiscriminate massage by an institution is harmful to people.

If you really want to choose a reliable agency, look for the first thing they ask you when you walk in. If they come up and take a picture of you and sign up for a package, and say "Develop right-angled shoulders in 7 days" and "Radically cure anterior pelvic tilt three times", then just turn around and leave. If you want to do serious correction, you must first ask if you have any old injuries and if you have any symptoms of numbness and pain. They must conduct a dynamic assessment on you - such as taking two steps and squatting to see if your force exertion mode is correct, rather than just looking at the height difference in static photos. He will even take the initiative to tell you which problems he cannot correct, and ask you to go to the hospital to take a X-ray to rule out pathological problems first, which is more credible.

Also, don’t put all your hopes on the institution. I used to know a girl who couldn’t help but adjust her anterior pelvic tilt twice a week. When she got home, she would lie down on the sofa with her legs crossed, and she would lie on the bed when she stayed up late to check her mobile phone. There was no change at all for two months. Later, the orthodontist forced her to stand against the wall for 10 minutes every day, and she couldn’t sit on the back of the chair. Within a month, her belly was gone, and her waist was not so sore.

To put it bluntly, posture correction is essentially about getting your body back on track after having been misused for more than ten years or even decades. The mechanism is at most a crutch to help you find the right direction. Whether you can walk to the end and whether you can walk steadily or not ultimately depends on how you use your body.