How about a posture correction studio?

You can't use "good" or "bad" to defeat a lot of people. The core depends on whether the organization you are looking for is professional enough and meets your actual needs. If you find the right one, it can solve the real pain. If you find the right one, it will easily cause new injuries.

I have a graphic design friend who works overtime all year round. She stretches her head forward as fast as two fingers wide. Her trapezius muscles are as hard as sun-dried slate. She goes to a massage parlor twice a week to loosen her muscles. After two days of massage, the stiffness goes back. She went to the orthopedic department for a X-ray and said it was not a disease. It was muscle compensation caused by long-term poor posture. She asked herself to practice more. However, after practicing with online videos for two months, she either couldn't find the feeling of strength or had back pain after practicing. Later, she found an old studio that has been open for almost six years. , the first evaluation even revealed her habit of always tilting the right side of her neck when answering the phone, and her habit of carrying a heavy computer bag on one shoulder after get off work. They broke it off before she came up. First, they relaxed her tense upper trapezius and chest muscles, and then watched her practice. The activation of the lower trapezius muscles has been adjusted for more than two months. Not only has the shoulder and neck pain basically disappeared, but the problem of forward head extension has also been visibly reduced. Now I still go to a maintenance class once a week, saying that it saves a lot of effort compared to practicing blindly on my own.

But there are many examples of mistakes. Last year, my ex-colleague took advantage of the situation and arranged three correction experience classes for 99 yuan at a newly opened studio. The first time I went to the doctor, they didn’t do any evaluation. He took a look and said she had uneven shoulders, so he pressed her high shoulder and pushed down hard. When the neck was stretched, she fainted on the spot for almost ten minutes. She went home and suffered from neck pain for three days. She went to the hospital to check that it was a soft tissue contusion in the neck. Now she is scared to hear the word "posture correction".

The essence is that the threshold of this industry is not so uniform now. Orthotists in reliable studios are basically majored in sports rehabilitation and have corresponding professional qualifications. During the assessment, they will take a full body photo of you, conduct a movement pattern screening, and will also carefully ask you if you have any old injuries or basic diseases. They will never force you to do anything.； However, there are also many practitioners who just signed up for a crash course for half a month and learned a few Internet celebrities to adjust their movements before they dare to work. They can't tell whether your high and low shoulders are brought about by your long and short legs, or whether they are compensation for scoliosis. They will only deal with superficial problems and it will be strange if nothing happens.

Many people also say that posture correction studios are a tax on IQ. In fact, this is not unfounded. If you only sit for a long time and hold your breasts for a long time, there is neither pain nor limited movement. Pay more attention to your sitting and standing postures, practice a few relaxation and activation movements with a reliable popular science blogger, and you will be able to adjust them back slowly. There is really no need to spend thousands to sign up for classes. But if you have persistent shoulder, neck and waist pain, joints snapping when moving, or even mild scoliosis, and you can't find a sense of strength when practicing by yourself, and you are prone to practicing in the wrong place, it is indeed much more efficient to find a reliable orthodontist to watch you and make adjustments.

If you really want to try it, you can find out how reliable it is in advance. The kind that doesn't even give you an evaluation as soon as you enter the door, and they will crazyly sell you annual passes, and just tell you that you need to take 20 or 30 classes to solve this problem, so just turn around and leave.； If we first give you a detailed assessment of more than 20 minutes, clearly explain the cause of your problem, the extent to which it can be improved, and how long it will take, and proactively tell you which problems cannot be solved by correction and require you to go to the hospital to find a specialist, this basically won't lead to any pitfalls.