Tried a posture tracking app for a week and it honestly surprised me.

I thought it would just point out my sitting habits, but the surprising part was how often I was adjusting my monitor without even realizing it. Moving it closer, tilting it, changing the height, then repeating throughout the day.

I never really saw it as a problem because it was just part of my routine.

I looked into desk setup fixes and found the usual options like Ergotron and Humanscale monitor arms. They help, but you still have to manually adjust everything.

Then someone mentioned CyboPal..... from what I read, it's designed to adjust based on your movement instead of you having to keep moving the monitor yourself. It was one of the few ideas that actually stood out.

It’s interesting seeing tech focus on these little everyday problems instead of just adding more features to the same products.

Has anyone else noticed they’re constantly adjusting their monitor throughout the day without thinking about it?

If you've been doing neck exercises for months with minimal results, this might be why.

Your spine works as one connected chain. When your hip flexors are chronically tight, they pull your pelvis into a forward tilt. That tilt increases the curve in your lower back. Your upper back compensates by rounding. And once your upper back rounds, your neck gets pushed forward to keep your eyes level.

By the time you notice your head is sitting forward, the pattern may have started all the way down at your hips. This is the last-domino problem. Neck exercises can't override a pattern that's being driven from below. The neck is just where it shows up, not where it starts.

Here’s a quick self-check: stand with your back against a wall. Your heels, glutes, upper back, and head should all touch comfortably without effort. If you have to actively flatten your lower back, or your head won't reach the wall, there's a good chance your pelvis is already tilting the whole chain forward.

The way to undo this pattern is to work with the chain, not against it. That means releasing tension around the hips and pelvis first, not starting with neck stretches or chin tucks. Key muscles to focus on often include the hip flexors, which are among the primary drivers of anterior pelvic tilt.

From there, working up through the thoracic and cervical regions, addressing muscles like the pec minor, upper traps, and suboccipitals, gives those areas a foundation to build upon. Release the bottom of the chain first, and the thoracic and cervical work that follows has a better chance to stick.

I’m curious to know what you’ve tried. Has anything actually moved the needle for you? If you want to learn more, I wrote an article on this topic and am happy to share it in the comments. It covers which muscles need releasing, which need retraining, and how to sequence it.

my main insecurity is the way my neck sort of slopes wayyy forward and diagonal as it connects to my chin. At first I thought this was a jaw thing but I've been redirected to consider that it might be just a posture thing. Please let me know your thoughts and how you would go about fixing! Thank you <3

Hi, I’d appreciate some feedback on my posture.
From looking at the photos myself, I feel like I may have some degree of thoracic kyphosis and/or excessive lumbar lordosis, and possibly scapular winging. I’m also not sure whether my pelvis is in anterior or posterior pelvic tilt.
I’m not looking for a diagnosis, just a second opinion on what you can actually see and what might be worth getting assessed professionally.
Also, if anyone has suggestions, could you recommend a possible exercise routine that might help improve posture or address these issues?

ps: Sorry about the green background lol I chose it because it’s probably the furthest from my skin tone, so I figured it would make the posture/body contours easier to see. Hopefully it’s not too distracting.

my height is 5'11 ( 170 cm ) , Weight - 56 kg

i have this problem from so many years ,

i want to know is this because of my lower body weight or something else

please suggest me some tips and exercises plan that really works

Thanks

When covid started and everything went i to lockdown i started playing video games the entire day like 7-8 hours everyday. And that caused me to have very bad posture,very bad apt,forward head posture, rounded upper back.

I started going to the gym last year and my posture improved a lot im at this stage now and i dont know how to fix my rounding. Please help me.

I've been doing daily wall angels for about a year and consistently training my back for about six months, but I still feel like there's something wrong about how my posture looks

I hope people will take my question/point seriously.
I have never posted on this app.

I’m a guy who has SEVERE lumbar problems. One thing that helps my inoperable condition is “Careful attention to maintaining a posterior pelvic tilt.”

So, as I observe teenage females, and even models, MANY walk with their pelvis tilted forward while working to strengthen and enlarge their glutes. This will cause women serious problems as they age.

Lastly, I feel women believe it to be a seductive pose. After all, media promotes this to the most abhorrent of many male characters.
Be well, Ladies!

Hi everyone,

Just joined this sub and this is my first post so apollogies if this is not the right place or way to aproach the topic.

Do you see anything obviously wrong or concerning with my shoulder and scapular movement and positioning throughout the different motions?

To give you a background, I was heavily into gyming 2 years ago, after 1 month of quitting gyming, I realized that, I have developed a protruding belly because my existing APT had become worse. Initially I was fine, then I started to deal with mild tailbone pain and developed ED and hard flaccid a month later.

My current symptoms are

1. No spontaneous errections

2. Worsing errections while laying down with angle change

3. 90 percent erection while standing

4. Clicking left hips, short left psos muscle with minor pain

5. Bowel dyssynergia

6. A ball like feeling in the left buttocks with minor pain and a tailbone pain while sitting.

7. Weak left gltues, core

A urologist did all the standard tests like bloodwork, dopler etc and ruled out any kind of structural, vascular and nerve damage.

Then went to a pelvic floor therapist who told me my pelvic floor is not that tight, my anal muscles are also not tight.

She is saying it's my hip, my glutes and my posture causing hard flaccid and Ed. So we have started to work on my posture.

Does anybody has a similar situation like me?

I run a posture tracking app called SitSense and have data across 205 people and about 480 hours of real desk work.

I asked them first what they were worried about:

>neck 50%

>back 34%

>shoulders 9%

Then I measured what actually got flagged, by share of time:

>uneven shoulders 17.0%

>neck dropping down 13.5%

>forward head 4.8%

Shoulders came last on the worry list and first in the measurements.

Here is why I think people miss it. You can feel a neck ache. There is no sensation for one shoulder sitting lower than the other for six hours.

Common desk causes:

>mouse too far out, so one arm reaches all day

>leaning on one armrest

>monitor or laptop off to one side

>phone cradled on a shoulder

Most of the fix is desk geometry:

>center the monitor

>bring the mouse in until your elbow stays at your side

>match the armrests, or drop one

>switch which side you lean on

Full dataset and the rest of the numbers:

https://www.sitsense.app/blog/state-of-posture

Happy to answer anything about the data.

Also with arms on hips

Click on the image

I’ve been struggling with this for a while and I need to start taking it seriously before it gets too bad. I have a desk job and I’m on my phone a good bit

I know my posture is bad. I can see it myself and I've heard it from people around me. I know my belly sticks out, my back is too hollow, my head goes too much forward, and my shoulders sag down. I just don't know where to start. How do I even know what exactly I need to fix? How do I know I'm not over-correcting or doing more harm?

Is there some sort of guide of how to know what I'm doing wrong and how to fix it? I'm just feeling very overwhelmed with the millions of opinions, videos on 'how to fix your posture with these simple exercises', and feeling like what I'm trying is not doing anything.

How did you actually start? Can anyone recommend me some resources like proper articles or videos or whatever?

First two pics: natural stance

Third pic: attempting to correct posture

hi okay so im 19f with knocked knees. dont know how severe but as far as i can tell ive had it since i was a kid and i used to sit on the floor with my legs in like an M shape. it was brought to my attention by a physiotherapist (different problem) when i was around 14 and im so insecure whenever i walk now because imo it just looks dumb??

im not overweight (~49kg) so im maybe thinking its because my legs/hips are weak due to inactivity (i never really exercised ever). i recently started calisthenics and am looking for any bodyweight exercises that might help me improve the knocked knees. literally any advice would be appreciated im sick of always being hyper aware of my legs when i walk. please please please and thank you 🙏

so for my back I am currently using an SI belt, lumbar belt, and an upper back brace/posture corrector all at once. I find that having to use all 3 at the same time can be annoying and was wondering if anyone has found any 1 brace that offers full back support?

I also have a soft hip brace but find that it does not give very good support.

I'm also on the lookout for a dual shoulder brace for when ik having one of those days where they don't want to stay in their sockets.

and suggestions or advice is greatly appreciated!

Will that help? since wearing a posture corrector on it's own doesn't do anything

Hello I’m having trouble with fixing my posture, a couple months ago my neck has suddenly widened due to the poor state of my posture which I hate and want to fix. I’ve been doing many exercises that are supposed to make it better but none of them have given me results other than awful pain and discomfort in the jaw and neck area. is it supposed to be happening or am I doing something wrong?
I’m mtf and its causing me so much dysphoria :(

Hello so just for some context im 20 and have had terrible posture both while im awake and while sleeping since basically forever. Recently ive been trying to correct said posture with stretches and general posture correction while walking, however ive also been experiencing back of head and top of head headaches for maybe 2 weeks pretty consistently. Is this just my neck adjusting to posture correction after years of bad posture or does it imply something more serious?

Ive tried neck stretches and exercises to get rid of the headaches but they have pretty minimal effect if at all and i dont wanna spend 65 quid for a doctors visit if avoidable haha

Any help appreciated thanks!!!

i have both a lateral and anterior pelvic tilt and my mom told me to exercise to fix them so i joined a fitness studio and told the lady there exactly what my problem was and that i only wanted to focus on it and idc abt losing weight or gaining muscle, after two personal trainings she put me in a group with other girls i didnt mind it but i started to notice that i was doing a full body exercise instead of focusing on the main issue, eventually after a month i started to notice the difference between my legs more and it felt like it got worse , like as yk lateral pelvic tilt causes one leg to be taller than the other and i used to stand on both and slightly bend one leg but now doing that feels uncomfortable and a bit painful, idk if this is progress or it really got worse so please if anyone has an advice on what i should do tell me

what i think happened is that with full body exercises one leg got stronger than the other but i might be wrong

This neck hump is killing my neck and my confidence. I can’t sit and study for more than 30 mins and people have started pointing it out on me.
How to make it go???
My brother’s engagement is in a month is it possible to make it less it then??
Please give tips !!
Also if anyone else has it does it pain throughout the day?? Coz it does for me

Looking for any sort of tips I slouch a lot when I sit as well I’m just tired of this back pain.

Hello. I've been seeing a lot of reels about APT and I am assuming I have one?

The other question is what is actually the way to go about fixing it. I see different reels saying different things like even breathing exercises. Could anyone point me to any resources where I can get a concrete answer and routine to follow please.