Many of us spend a vast majority of our time sitting. We commute to work, sit for most of an eight hour day, commute back home, sit to read or watch TV. Sitting concentrates much of our body weight onto our tail bone, and if we are experiencing tail bone pain, every moment of that can be agony.
Unless you have had a severe problem with your tailbone, such as breaking it, you do not have to fret about tailbone pain. There are various exercises you can do to help strengthen your tailbone and help you improve posture. If you incorporate such exercises on a regular basis you will strengthen your muscles and as your posture improves, so will your tailbone pain.
Posture, whether good, or bad affects many parts of our lives. From how you stand and walk, to how you sit or what position you lay in when sleeping, if you have bad posture, it can heavily influence tailbone pain, so as you can see good posture is about not only standing and walking correctly. A great postural program should address all these issues, however many do not.
The tailbone is the last bone of our spine, and it is one of the most important bones in our body because it is one of the body’s most acute support structures. The spine is supported and kept aligned by hundreds of small muscles that must allow you to move about and provide structural support. The tailbone should be able to move freely, but unfortunately, that is not always the case.
Sometimes our postures compromise these conflicting goals. Unfortunately, the way in which we sit puts tremendous pressure onto our tail bone, which was not meant to support weight. Imagine, for a moment, the spine as separated from the body. The head, roughly the weight of a bowling ball, sits atop a wobbly and narrow support structure ending in a small point. Now pile on various internal organs around the lower spine, each applying their own weight to this tiny bone, and perhaps you begin to see why your tail bone may be experiencing terrible pain.
All the pressure and weight presses in this small area everyday and overtime will cause problems. The tailbone should move freely, however because of all the weight and pressure, the muscles surrounding it will tense up and try to help keep you upright and in good posture. In result, the tailbone locks up and soon all that weight will press upon the newly tightened muscles. The pain is an indication that you must gain a better posture, where the weight can be better distributed.
You will be glad to know that this is a problem you can deal with by simply changing your habits. For example, your hipbones are wider than your tailbone and are flat so they can dispense weight more evenly. If you tilt your pelvis forward a bit, you can take weight pressure off the tailbone and shift it towards the hips, you will free up the tense muscles, they eventually relax, and when they do, the pain will lessen.
One way to help with this is by increasing the flexibility of the lower back. By loosening and improving the various lower back muscles, tilting your pelvis forward becomes easier. A good and safe regimen of lower back stretches is key to this process. Lower back stretches need not be painful. Many are simple and enjoyable. They can be done standing up, thus requiring less space. You might even make them a part of regular breaks at the office. Not only will each break relieve your tail bone pain temporarily, but each day of routine and safe stretching brings you just that little bit closer to ending the pain for good.
When searching for a postural improvement program, ensure that it includes a solid routine of lower back stretches. Stretching the lower back provides the abdominal strength necessary for the forward pelvic tilt that will relieve tail bone pain.
Apart from not having to deal with pain, people with good posture appear more confident and self assured. Good posture changes how people view you and treat you. With a superb postural enhancement program, you will both be relieving your back and tailbones pains, and change how others perceive you. This can in result be one of the healthiest life changing decisions you can make.
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