Do you ever think about your posture? Back in the old days, it was considered so important that we talked about it in school. I remember my teacher always telling us to sit up straight at our desks and I even recall walking with a textbook balanced on my head. I don’t think we give correct posture much of a thought anymore.
With technology the way it is now, we spend a lot of time with our heads bent forward either looking down at a computer screen or, worse yet, at a phone. The average head weighs 10 to 11 pounds and it is supposed to balance evenly over the shoulders, supported by the atlas bone and the muscles and ligaments of the neck. These structures weren’t built to have 10 pounds constantly angled forward.
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