Is posture correction bone correction

Of course not, the two are completely different logical things, but don’t confuse them again.

I met a little girl who works in new media a while ago. She is 23 years old. She stays up late all year long editing films. She stretches her head forward almost as wide as two fingers, and her shoulders are one centimeter different. Last time, her shoulders and neck hurt so much that she couldn’t lift her arms. So she found a bone-setter at a health center to do a couple of clicks. The shoulders were flat and the head was back. The little girl was so happy that she went there three times in a row. However, she came to me for evaluation this month. She said that her shoulder and neck pain became more frequent. She became stiff after sitting for just two hours. Not to mention that her posture returned to its original shape. Sometimes when she raised her head, she could hear the clicking sound of her cervical vertebrae.

Actually, this is a pitfall caused by confusing bone setting and posture correction. The essence of bone setting is the diagnosis and treatment technology of the Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology of Traditional Chinese Medicine. It is aimed at pathological conditions such as joint dislocation, dislocation, and acute bone misalignment. The operator must have formal medical qualifications. The core is to restore the displaced bones and joints to their normal physiological positions and solve pathological pain and limited activities. Do you think it has any effect on your posture? Of course, there is. For example, if an acute stiff neck causes the neck to tilt to one side, the neck will be straightened immediately after going to a regular hospital for bone setting. Therefore, many people mistakenly think that bone setting is a shortcut to correct posture. In fact, this is just a side effect of solving pathological problems.

The posture correction we often talk about mostly targets problems caused by long-term bad habits - such as the pelvic tilt caused by crossing one's legs all year round, the rounded shoulders caused by bowing the head at the desk, and the high and low shoulders caused by standing for a long time with the center of gravity tilted. The muscle tension is imbalanced. Some muscles are tense all year round and pull the joints in a crooked direction. The corresponding antagonist muscles are too weak to pull the joints. The neuromuscular control mode is distorted. The bones are just pulled by the muscles to "deviate", and they are not pathologically misaligned at all.

An analogy will help you understand: you have worn ill-fitting shoes for several years and developed corns on your feet. Bone correction is like cutting off the corns for you, which can immediately solve the problem of walking pain. However, if you continue to wear the ill-fitting shoes, the corns will grow back over time. Posture correction is to change you to shoes that fit well, teach you the correct walking posture, and avoid further problems at the root.

In the six years I have been working as a posture coach, I have seen many people who are superstitious about orthopedics and posture correction. There are young men with scoliosis less than 10 degrees that could be improved by core exercises. They insist on having their spines broken by an expert. In the end, the soft tissue was injured and hurt for half a month; there are also cases where the pelvis tilts forward after giving birth. My mother has had more than a dozen bone-setting procedures at a cost of tens of thousands, but her belly still protrudes forward when she takes a picture. The essence is that she doesn’t understand that the position of the bones is maintained by muscles. If you don’t adjust the muscle force, even if the bone-setting pushes the bones back, the muscles will still be twisted when they are pulled, and it cannot be maintained at all.

Of course, this does not mean that bone setting cannot be used in posture adjustment at all. If you do have acute compression of a certain joint, such as sitting for a long time and suddenly being unable to stand up, or your waist is tilted to one side and cannot move, in this case, you should first seek help from an orthopedic and traumatologist at a regular hospital for bone setting reduction and solution. Doing postural training after removing the compression will have better results. I am afraid that no matter what the situation is, bone correction must be done first, or even if bone correction is regarded as a normal maintenance method, the joint capsule will become looser and the joint stability will become worse and worse, which will make the posture problems more and more serious.

Finally, I would like to remind you that if you really want to do bone setting, you must go to a regular hospital to find a qualified doctor. Don't trust the so-called "bone setting masters" in health care centers and beauty institutions. If you break the cervical and lumbar vertebrae improperly, it will last a lifetime.