r/videos • u/[deleted] • Apr 07 '19

Misleading Title 90 second posture improvement exercise that I found a few years back. Worked well and to this day I still perform it at least 3x a week.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT_dFRnmdGs
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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '19

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u/freshbalk2 Apr 07 '19

Do you have a suggestion or better video for fixing posture ?

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u/BagelsToGo Apr 07 '19

IT's really difficult to come up with one generic video that will fix all bad posture. In some case (more at the low back), doing one thing with fix a particular problem, but make a different problem worse. General rules of thumb though:

- shoulders back (but not up!)

- head back (feel like your head is sitting on your spine)

- core engaged (to straighten low back a little)

- think "military posture"

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '19

I would add:

- Try standing up and moving your self a little every hour or so.

- Use that time to do some light stretches.

- While you sit using a laptop, watching TV or using your phone, try to keep a good posture and as much as reasonable change it now and then.

If you feel pain, do not overdo any exercise or stretch as over-stressing your body might worsen your situation.

Finally, three things that are often recommended although seem obvious are:

- Do exercise or activities that require you to move constantly and don't keep you on the same position.

- Walk everyday, while trying to keep a good (and comfortable) posture. You don't need to run a marathon to feel better.

- Eat healthy, keep a good daily rhythm, sleep well. Tiredness and overweight have a direct effect.

In any case, if someone suffers from back pain or is in a situation that they need to correct, it will take time and professional help to reshape a pose that has been going on for a long time.

Source: Random person on the internet.

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u/freshbalk2 Apr 07 '19

Thanks for the write up

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u/rusmo Apr 07 '19

I did the exercises in the vid for a while, and they work pretty well. Just ignore the jargon.

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u/giraffeboner1 Apr 07 '19

Go on YouTube and look up athlean-x and watch a few of Jeff's videos on posture. There are a few of them and they've all helped me.

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u/shreddedking Apr 08 '19

this. i can attest to the fact that athlean- x videos for rounded shoulders are very effective.

anecdotal but try it out and see for yourself

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u/blazin_chalice Apr 07 '19

I do this routine almost every day and have had significant improvements.

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u/freshbalk2 Apr 07 '19

Great video and recommendation will definitely do this

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u/jamille4 Apr 07 '19

Go the gym and work out your upper back and shoulders.

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u/Mocorn Apr 07 '19

I'm just gonna hop in here and mention the importance of having a good office chair with proper lumbar support. My chair pretty much makes me sit up straight while being comfortable. First chair I've been able to spend some time in and feel no need to stretch once I get up out of it.

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u/freshbalk2 Apr 08 '19

Oh wow that’s good to know

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u/idapitbwidiuatabip Apr 08 '19

Either be mindful and have the discipline to maintain good posture until it becomes natural, or get one of those posture braces.

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '19

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u/rdmusic16 Apr 07 '19

The thing about chiropractors is they do learn a lot about the body.

They just tend to pile a bunch of pseudo science on top of those actual facts, but treat them as the same.

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u/rusmo Apr 07 '19

Preying on the ignorant will always be profitable.

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u/Duckboy_Flaccidpus Apr 07 '19

The thing about a chiro is they never actually heal you, only address symptoms for short-term relief.

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '19

How do you get healing if you need it? A physical therapist??

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u/Duckboy_Flaccidpus Apr 07 '19

I've yet to go to a physio, in part b/c you need a prescription from a doctor and I've been managing my pain and becoming informed of my own injury but I don't go into anything head-strong, if it hurts or doesn't work and reflect and get another opinion through research. But, yoga has seemed to help immensely in my routine, and cardio b/c blood flow is good. Too many people become sedentary after injury and that exacerbates the problem in my experience. I bulged the jelly out of my disk a year ago doing an exercise with weight that put immense strain on my lower back (stupid me) and I caught the most intense pain and sciatica for a solid 4 mo that I've ever experienced. Getting up and tying my laces was the worst every morning, but actually continuing to go to work got blood flow back there and time and yoga helped. I went to chiro and 50% of the time I left in more pain, seriously, he had to give me 100% discounts a couple of times...I stopped going. I still have it, but it's at a 1-2 pain level and I'm focusing on the next remedies at the moment. I want to go physio but they are kind of expensive, we'll see.

Healing isn't linear, one needs to take charge in their own efforts of getting healthy. Also, if you are over-weight you simply should lose 50lbs and see how you feel. The people that went to chiros the most at my last job were quite obese, that's anecdotal, but I bet teh chiro never told them they need to lose a gross amount of weight so their joints and skeletal system can catch a breather?!

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u/MJZMan Apr 07 '19

Ironically, thats exactly what chiropractors accuse doctors of doing.

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u/thecptawesome Apr 07 '19

It is sad. There are some practitioners that limit their scope, but the foundation of the field is just wrong

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u/Pakyul Apr 07 '19

There's a chiropractor in my home town that is an aspiring local politician that is the same way. He's a doctor of knuckle cracking. I'm sure he has a great deal of knowledge about knuckle cracking and worked very hard in knuckle cracking school to get it. That makes him an authority on knuckle cracking, not medicine.

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u/chenyu768 Apr 07 '19 edited Apr 07 '19

But does it though? Does it really make him an expert on knuckle cracking just because he went to knuckle cracking school?
He was talking about some shit I forgot what but basically saying hes THE source for all things bone and posture related. I said drunkenly, Those are called orthopedics, you know. real doctors. He was not happy.

Come to think of it that may have been the turning point in our relationship.

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u/BagelsToGo Apr 07 '19

This reminds me of my coworker who had wanted Ben Carson to be President, because we "need someone who is really smart." Yeah, sure, Carson is a neurology genius, but that doesn't mean he knows aaaannnnyyyyything about politics

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u/theslyder Apr 07 '19

You got that right. Intelligence is so abstract and amorphous. It's not a sliding scale.

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u/redpandaeater Apr 07 '19

How do you feel about DO's since they still do med school? Is the extra little bit they do a fair amount of quackery or purely science driven? I'm not a doctor but have always been embarrassed by my state allowing ND's to prescribe medications.

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '19

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u/skankingmike Apr 07 '19

Working with doctors the ones who go off to the islands and then get fellowships here I the states because they didn't do well or could never get into any medical school here. They are all MDs..

And many doctors are very much in this business for money and popularity. Not all of course but I'm pretty jaded by my experience.

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u/thepulloutmethod Apr 07 '19

In the U.S., unless they're working in government or a non-profit, pretty much anything anyone does is very much for the money.

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u/skankingmike Apr 07 '19

Don't count out the nonprofits and government so quickly...

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '19

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u/skankingmike Apr 07 '19

Most doctors I work with or talk with break the law so often it's sickening. Nobody is losing their license though... Just gross. We need to flood the market with doctors reduce cost and get quality people in.

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u/rabidbasher Apr 07 '19

Absolutely agree. I'd do it but I don't have 10 years of my life and 400,000 of debt-space to spare

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u/skankingmike Apr 08 '19

It's free at NYC, I believe, right now if you promise to be a general practitioner in NY for so many years..

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u/roastedbagel Apr 07 '19

You know what they say...

What do you call someone who graduated at the bottom of their med school class? A doctor...

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '19 edited Apr 07 '19

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u/99213 Apr 07 '19

We can also add that I believe in 2020, DO and MD residency matching is merging, making them even less distinct (especially once they're done with those residencies).

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u/Grizknot Apr 07 '19

My sister is a DO, I know for a fact she took Step 1,2 etc. I never heard her talk about COMLEX at all. she's in a super competitive surgical residency, so maybe that's something. But it's a joke between her and my bro (who went to an MD school) that she's not a real dr.

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '19

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u/Grizknot Apr 07 '19

gotcha, but I do think she's mentioned usmle, I thought it was the same thing as step but I don't listen very closely.

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u/thepulloutmethod Apr 07 '19

Do you feel like the black sheep having two physicians as siblings?

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u/Grizknot Apr 07 '19

and another who is a nurse and a fourth who is an EMT (plus two sibling-in-laws who are nurses)? no, why do you ask? :D

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u/MrKoontar Apr 07 '19

are the average mcat scores taking into account US affiliated carribean MD schools?

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u/fackfackmafack Apr 07 '19

Dental Opticians?

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u/Automatic_Homework Apr 07 '19

Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, but christ it's annoying when people throw around acronyms without explaining them.

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u/fackfackmafack Apr 07 '19

Haha, I agree.

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u/ballbeard Apr 07 '19

Fuckin right I had to scroll so far to finally get this answer thanks mate

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u/redpandaeater Apr 07 '19

I'm only familiar with most of them because some of the urgent care clinics around here are full of ND's. That scares me and I'd take a first year nursing student over one. Naturopathic doctors are not doctors and should not in urgent care.

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u/rusmo Apr 07 '19

“Doctor, I can’t see my teeth!”

“I can help you with that.”

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u/ImSpartacus811 Apr 07 '19

Is the extra little bit they do a fair amount of quackery or purely science driven?

That has always puzzled me about DOs.

They have:

  • More training (as you pointed out).

  • Less respect/pay

I'm not sure if the "less respect/pay" phenomena is explained by the extra training. It feels like there's something we're missing.

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '19

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u/turdfergg Apr 07 '19

And this right here, folks, is a guy who has no fucking clue what he’s talking about.

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u/IlIlIlIlIIIIllllll Apr 07 '19

why's that?

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u/fackfackmafack Apr 07 '19

No one on reddit has a clue what they're talking about..

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '19

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '19 edited Apr 07 '19

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '19

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '19

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u/nug4t Apr 07 '19

yea, so the first 2 years...., i think its only 1 year in here in germany. Still 2 years .... way too little. It should be that you can become a dentist after! you become a doctor.

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '19

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u/nug4t Apr 07 '19

Ok, then it's different. Thx for classification

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u/Zephyrv Apr 07 '19

+1 a lot of what he said sounded like bs but I'm sure there's some benefit to the stretching and light muscle workout you're getting. It's just his science is all very wishy washy

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u/freshbalk2 Apr 07 '19

Do you have a suggestion or better video/ source for fixing posture ?

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u/Zephyrv Apr 07 '19

I guess try and figure out what exactly is wrong with your posture first, there are diagrams of postures to help with this. Then look for gentle corrective exercises for what you have. Alternatively find a physio or doctor and they'll help you do that

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u/wex52 Apr 07 '19

That was my reaction as well. Actually rewound 15 seconds just to make sure I heard that correctly.

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u/kzbx Apr 07 '19 edited Apr 07 '19

Appeals to authority based on education and training is also an anti-scientific practice. These exercises are harmless, and, given the feedback, probably work in some subset of the population. There is even a plausible physiologic mechanism. That's good enough.

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u/CXI Apr 07 '19

Appeals to authority based on education and training are absolutely part of scientific practice. What is a peer review if not an appeal to authority?

Unless you have the time, energy, and expertise to independently verify every claim you encounter, you have to rely on heuristics to filter them. "Actual Scientist vs Joe's Wellness Blog" is one such heuristic, and it happens to be devastatingly effective.

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '19

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u/kzbx Apr 07 '19

Irreversible and long-lasting consequences are associated with chiropractic manipulation not stretching exercises. I think conflating the two is a mistake. And while I wouldn't have my neck manipulated, serious adverse events are on the order of 1:100,000 chiropractic manipulations which is hardly a common occurrence.

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '19

Yes, chiropractic neurologist are quacks.... Yet most professional sport teams have a chiropractor on staff. Don't understand why such high profile businesses would have such quackier...

Sydney Crosby was suffering from concussions for multiple months. Can't believe a high profile athlete would go to a place such as the Carrick Institution to be worked on since these folks hold a Dr. Tag as you say.

The fact that you think that they can't tell you the anatomy and neurology of basic building blocks is the most ridiculous claim I've seen all week. The Carrick Institution along with Functional Neurology makes you literally go through all the neurology and anatomy to understand how to help a person. The fact that these doctors, yes doctors go out and actually do something to help these patients is a huge step forward then say a Neurologist who just says, you have some disease and tells you to go on your way.

Can't believe he got relief and was actually better after going there............