Why You Should Consider Postural Correction Treatment

Do You Suffer from Chronic Pain and Seem to Be Tired All the Time?

According to the Canadian Chiropractic Association (CCA), one in eight Canadians experiences chronic back issues and back pain forces one-third to limit physical activities.

If you have back problems, you may be unable to work, enjoy sports or other hobbies that you used to love, or partake in any number of other activities.

Back pain may be caused by excessive weight gain, age, general lack of exercise, or lifting heavy weights in the wrong way repeatedly. But poor posture is another common reason.

Fortunately, postural correction treatment can make a huge difference.

What does postural correction involve? How does it work? We will answer these and other critical questions below.

What is Postural Correction?

“What is postural correction?” is a question we hear often at Bloor Yonge Chiropractic. Postural correction is a multidisciplinary treatment designed to encourage strong, healthy posture. It involves massage therapy, chiropractic adjustments, and other techniques which we will explore in more detail below. Postural correction is tailored to your exact problems and needs to maximize its effectiveness.

Good, strong posture is vital as it encourages balanced weight distribution throughout the body, helping to protect it against injury and ensure proper function. A number of issues can lead to poor posture, including:

• Poor postural habits and hygiene (sitting slouched at a desk for hours on end)
• A non-rehabilitated injury
• Developmental disorders e.g., flat feet, scoliosis, or short legs
• Musculoskeletal issues

Symptoms of poor posture include:

• Tension headache
• Neck or shoulder pain
• Constant back or neck ache
• Low back pain
• Joint or muscle pain
• Hip pain
• Temporomandibular joint (TMJ) pain
• Degeneration of joints and disks
• Arms feel heavy or numb

Clearly, poor posture can have a significantly negative effect on your life, whether you experience pain in the back of your head and neck, struggle with numbness, or feel more stressed than you might otherwise.

What are the Benefits of Postural Correction Treatment?

Now that we’ve covered the basics, let’s address the next question: what are the benefits of postural correction treatment?

Working with a professional posture corrector can treat several health conditions that result directly from poor posture. These include pain, fatigue, neural impingement, and stress.

Your posture corrector will help you:

• Improve your general posture while sitting and standing
• Reduce chronic pain in your back, neck, shoulders, or other areas affected by postural pain
• Stretch muscles that have been overused to ease tension
• Improve bodily function and enable you to become more active
• Strengthen muscles that have become weak through inactivity
• Restore mobility in stiff joints and reduce related pain

We will be able to explore these and other potential benefits in more detail during your initial assessment.

How Chiropractic Treatment, Physiotherapy and Massage Help with Postural Correction?

Bloor Yonge Chiropractic’s team offers carefully designed, personalized posture correction programs. Your program will be tailored to your individual posture challenges following an in-depth assessment of your posture, health, and other factors.

We utilize a wide range of therapeutic processes to optimize muscle activity patterns and restore joint position. These include:

Spinal Decompression

By using the latest motorized traction to stretch the patient’s spine, we can alleviate pain in the neck and lower back. This relieves pressure placed on the spinal discs to restore spinal mobility and curvatures.

Chiropractic

Our chiropractic treatment involves careful adjustments to restore joint mobility, relieve pain, and improve general physical functioning. Chiropractic posture correction treatments largely involve manual manipulation of the joints and vertebrae, though soft tissue therapy and ultrasound therapy may also be used.

Massage Therapy

By manipulating muscle tissue in certain ways, massage therapy encourages relaxation and relieves tension.

Physiotherapy

Physiotherapy can be used to restore good posture through a number of hands-on methods including massage, carefully planned exercises, and heat-based treatments.

Mulligan Technique

Manually repositioning joints can relieve pain, restore function, and cultivate a stronger posture.

Shockwave Therapy

During shockwave therapy, we apply high-energy soundwaves to problematic tissue to enhance function, encourage healing, and break scar tissue down.

Whatever techniques work best for you, we will talk you through your bespoke postural correction treatment and explain how it will ease your postural pain.

How Does Posture Correction Treatment Help with Back Pain and So Much More?

Finding a cure for back pain may be difficult, but our posture correction service can be an effective back pain treatment for people experiencing a wide range of posture-related problems. By using spinal decompression, chiropractic treatments, massage therapy, and the other techniques in our portfolio, we can encourage proper spinal and joint alignment.

As a result, our postural correction treatment can also promote healing after an injury, relieve TMJ pain, and address tingling, numbness, weakness, or disc herniation.

Our treatment involves:

Initial Assessment

When you visit Bloor Yonge Chiropractic for your postural correction treatment, we will begin with your initial physical assessment by Dr. Igor Sapozhnikov (our Clinic Director), D.C. or Dr. Isaac Norman, D.C. A thorough assessment is vital to identify and determine which areas we need to focus on to correct your posture and relieve your postural pain.

Program Plan

We will use the results of your assessment to put together an individualized program plan. This may incorporate various treatments such as spinal decompression, postural exercises, and more. We will work hard to create a cure for back pain that works for you.

Implementation

We will implement the treatments in your bespoke posture correction program plan to correct your posture. With a multidisciplinary approach, we will work on different areas to improve your posture and ease related issues.

Maintenance

A key part of our posture correction program is ongoing maintenance: we will provide you with the education and guidance on maintaining the results achieved. We will schedule regular check-ups and counseling to ensure you receive professional, long-term support.

If you have back, neck, or shoulder pain, or any other health issue due to poor posture, we are here to help. To book your initial posture correction assessment at Bloor Yonge Chiropractic, contact our team today.