Fix posture; chiropractor

jago25_98

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My posture isn't great.
It's not mental but physical.

I would like to:

- have my shoulders sit back naturally
without having to pull them back all the time (impossible to do all the
time)

- bring hips forward

Main thing is shoulders.

Been lifting for ~5 years, know what I'm doing and looking for new knowledge.
Feel strong and serious about it. Would do surgery for it.

I want to try it all but I've literally got no money.

Went to a chiropractor and she said I had the worst posture she'd seen for my age. (probably due to very heavy computer usage, addiction really). But it cost £35 for an hour and did nothing. As someone who's used to putting my body through pain for gain it felt like a joke - what she was doing wasn't going to help and what motivation did she have to `cure` me; lost business? I left with no visual map of the muscles in my back that I needed for training. She seemed to think that sitting up properly is going to fix a bent back.

Some things I'm going to be chacking out:
- stretching
- yoga
- training

But I'm looking for more info, i.e. surgery.

What I would like is to push my shoulders back with a machine. I find it's very hard to stretch without assistance. I feel if I could step out of my body and do it myself I'd be able to fix it in time.

This is similar in severity to have I have:


and an extreme example:
http://medicine.ucsd.edu/clinicalmed/thorax-kyphosis.JPG
 
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jason86

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aye man my brother had something called kyphosis when he was younger, basically like a hunchback. he had to wear this back brace or something. check that out.
 

jago25_98

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Could you put your brother in contact with me? I'd really like to know how he cured it --> jago25_98 at hotmail.com
 

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I actually just asked him about it. Just ask your doctor if he can get a specialised back brace for you, for your kyphosis. Thats pretty much all that was done, nothing else to it. The back brace then held his back straight and it got used to being in that position. If you got any questions, ill ask him for you.
 

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Seiza!!!!!

look it up.
 

jago25_98

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Ah yes Seiza, numb toes and bruised ankles, I remember that ;) Damn I'm one bitter guy :D

Started on the exercises I linked to at TNation. Pretty good! Did all the part 4 I could at the gym - Next day mu shoulders were back naturally!

( went straight to the pic here and printed:
http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do;jsessionid=CED796D524657B456455A0B1D33C39E1.titan?id=472224 )

I'll check out the brace. Felt perhaps, maybe a brace makes the back get used to it so then when you take it off it gets worse? - or does it stretch you into a better position?

Anyway, I'm gonna check out a back brace for on the pull that Salsa dancers use!

Thanks for asking your bro, bro :)
 
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