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Hi, everyone! This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today’s video, I’ll tell you about my latest obsession with posture, body pain, and the exercise solutions recommended by Egoscue therapy.  Recently I have become obsessed with good posture. I did an earlier video on how to fix computer posture. What I have discovered since doing that video is that it is virtually impossible to entirely fix your upper body posture (slumped shoulders and forward head) without first fixing your spine.  Most of the thoughts in this video come directly from the book Pain Free by Pete Egoscue.  Egoscue is a Vietnam veteran who came home from war with a Purple Heart and chronic nerve pain from battle injuries.  He discovered the limits of modern medicine in dealing with chronic pain and set out to find a way to live without pain.  In his book, he presents his revolutionary philosophy that ties together posture, body alignment, and pain management. Let me just...

Hi, everyone!  This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today’s video, I’m going to talk about bad computer posture and what to do about it! So, what is bad computer posture?  Just take a minute to think about how your posture might be affected by our society's recent dependency on computers and smart phones. The most pronounced issue is that we are losing the curve in our necks. Necks are supposed to look like this with a healthy curve. You can see that having a curve in your neck nicely stacks your head on top of your shoulders. By looking at screens constantly, we are changing the curve in our neck to be more straight. Our ears no longer stack on top of our shoulders, because our head is jutting out in front of us.  Some call this forward head or forward carriage.  Here’s the problem with that — every time you move your head forward an inch, 10lb of extra weight are added to your neck. This creates all kinds of problems, including h...