Why Is Correct Posture So Important?
Quite often poor posture or weakness in postural muscles is a large contributing factor to conditions such as neck, shoulder and back pain. Improving posture is also one of the most common goals of our clients at MD Health.
How Can Pilates Improve Posture?
Strengthening the main stabilising and postural muscles of the body's joints is a key principle to Pilates. The sort of exercises which we prescribe at MD Health have a strong emphasis on using these muscles correctly by encouraging correct exercise technique with highly specific movements.
Who Can Benefit From Improving Posture?
Poor posture is particularly prevalent in people who spend a lot of their day sitting at a desk or computer such as office workers and students. For people such as this, exercises to strengthen the muscles which control posture are very important as they spend the majority of their day in a position which does not promote good posture, such as sitting at a computer.