People Are Becoming All Scrunched Up

A recent edition of "The Costco Connection", the consumer warehouse giant's monthly magazine, reports that 15% of 5 year-old boys still wet their bed and one in 4 people have a case of undiagnosed mental illness.  Both of these are staggering statistics, if you believe that they are true and not some periodical's sensationalism.  I tend to think that most health related statistics are highly inflated, usually skewed towards making individuals anxious.

But one statistic that I am certain is real and may be under reported is the incidence of back pain.  The reported incidence of back pain is 85%.  This includes all spinal related pain, including neck pain.  Considering how our society has gone so immobile and has increasingly poor posture, our spine is put under constant stress. 

Our bodies evolved over millions of years (or thousands depending on how you look at it) to be upright and active.  Our ancestors spent very little time sitting as most of the day was devoted to hunting, gathering, farming and building.   It is only in the last century that this has changed.  Think about what sitting all day at a computer does to your spine.  Most of us sit forward without proper back support, crank our neck forward to get closer to the monitor, tuck the phone under our neck so we can talk while we type or use the mouse and when given a break, sit scrunched up on our IPhone. 

Chiropractic adjustments free up the spinal misalignments and compressions that these positions impose upon your spine.  Chiropractors prescribe specific exercises utilize additional physical therapeutics and explain proper ergonomics.  See your chiropractic physician to be sure that you are one of the 15% that don't suffer back pain.  For more information visit www.peyserchiropractic.com.