Young Athletes

This sensitivity comes from my own experience. As a child I was sporty, but I had poor posture and no awareness that it could cause problems later in life. Now, working with adults in clinical practice, I see how many injuries originate from postural dysfunction. When I trace back how patients use their posture day-to-day, they often remember having the same habits when they were children. Those early postures gradually shorten certain muscles, and years later those are often

Prolonged sitting postures, will cause shortening of muscles. The shortening is the body's clever way of adapting to something we do little and often. It creates muscles tension to help us to that function with more ease. Hence sitting statically can become comfortable.... Until it doesn't? Muscles will 'learn' by input, that a certain muscle tension is needed to help us to that more efficiently. As we do more frequently, like hours, and times per day, the muscles tension is