Poor posture can be a contributing factor to many causes of neck, shoulder and back pain, tightness, overstretching and muscle tension. Our specialists can clinically assess and evaluate your posture and identify and alleviate postural problems, helping you to improve the condition of your joints, muscles and spine.

By taking a 360º approach to your treatment, we can also help to spot external factors that may affect your health and well-being, such as your work, hobbies, lifestyle and general health and fitness.

What causes poor posture?

Many factors can contribute to poor posture and place stresses and strains on your body. From working on a laptop and hunching over a smartphone to slouching on the sofa, modern life is full of postural pitfalls. Activities and behaviours that involve repetitive movements or heavy labour can also add to postural problems. Sedentary lifestyles, excess weight and old age can all place an additional strain on the lower back and increase muscle fatigue and tension. Emotional factors like stress may additionally exacerbate your symptoms. As part of your treatment, we assess a wide range of external factors that are often overlooked.

What to do if you have poor posture?

Symptoms of poor posture can include rounded shoulders, changes in weight, bent knees when standing, back pain, body aches and pains, muscle fatigue and headaches. Over time, the wrong posture can lead to further back and neck pain, spinal dysfunction and joint degeneration. as well as the tightening of shoulder and hip joints.

In some instances, you can improve your posture and spinal health, simply by making a few lifestyle adjustments. Naturally, it is always preferable not to wait for the aches and pains to appear before you change position. It’s also good to listen to your body, and act when you feel muscle tension or fatigue.

If your postural problems are more complicated, our team of specialists are on hand to create a personalised programme that specifically addresses your symptoms and sets you on the road to recovery.

We’ll help you assess your posture and address any imbalances with a series of clinically proven treatments. Your dedicated team may also recommend a series of tailored exercises that help to strengthen your core muscles and improve your spinal health.

Preventing postural problems

You can improve your general posture by performing daily stretching exercises to boost muscle flexibility and improve muscle strength and tone.

Wherever possible, be aware of your posture. Good posture should feel effortless. So take care to tune into your body and make minor adjustments while standing and sitting to find the position which feels the most comfortable.

It’s important to remember that you cannot simply out-train bad posture. For an expert opinion on your posture, simply talk to our specialists, today.

How our specialists can help

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What our patients say

Imran

"The stretches and posture recommendations you gave have made a big difference to my wrist symptoms, to the point where I can go most of the day without feeling the tightness I was experiencing before. So a massive thank you!"

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"I found it really useful to have the 15 minute free discussion over (video) call as I wasn't sure if physio was what I needed and if they were going to be able to help. Having had that initial call the next, full-on, e-physio call was very informative and gave me a great start to my recovery. Thank you."

Alice

"Ran for the first time in 6 months yesterday... My hip is back to full health, it feels stronger than it did pre injury... The Spectrum team have been absolutely phenomenal."

Louise Law

"I was worried that it was so severe that nothing would ever work. However, Rob was extremely helpful, immediately able to diagnose where the nerve was trapped through our Zoom meeting. So impressed that I have sent my daughter here too!!"

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"I cannot recommend Ant and the team highly enough. Professional, reassuring, knowledgeable, patient and fantastic to work with. The diagnosis, physio and follow up consultations were all done over Zoom during lockdown which is remarkable in itself!"

David

"It has been a great experience from start to finish. Physio during lockdown which got rid of my knee pain and feeling fitter and stronger than before. It was amazing, the attention to detail and ability to correct form and progress through a video call and now I am able to run and cycle faster and further before thanks to Spectrum!"

Lewis

"Just wanted to message and thank you for the advice as my leg is fully healed and stronger than ever"

Simon B

"Thank you so much. Cannot believe how quickly this pain has gone away. I was agony two days ago and I could not sit down, now I already feel like a new man."

George

"Thank you so much, you were amazing beyond belief. The treatment was the miracle that I needed and I am so happy to be back in the gym with better form than ever before."

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