Welcome to Season 5 and Episode 76 of the Movement Logic podcast! In this second episode in our Posture Panic series, Laurel and Sarah take a deep dive into the currently available research around posture to debunk some of the long held beliefs around posture, pain prevention, muscle activation, and more.

You will learn:

• Does good posture keep you pain free?
• Is Text Neck or Tech Neck really a thing we need to worry about?
• Do we need to spend so much time finding a “neutral spine”?
• Do you need to keep your shoulders “back and down” at all times?
• Does a flexed spine automatically lead to a disc herniation?
• What the actual predictors of pain and injury are (spoiler: it’s not your posture)
• Why we hate @postureguymike’s fearmongering pseudoscience approach to “strength” for seniors

And more!

References:

Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America

Modifying patterns of movement in people with low back pain -does it help?

No consensus on causality of spine postures or physical exposure and low back pain

Association Between Text Neck and Neck Pain in Adults

Posture and time spent using a smartphone are not correlated with neck pain and disability in young adults

Is Neck Posture Subgroup in Late Adolescence a Risk Factor for Persistent Neck Pain in Young Adults?

Can we reduce the effort of maintaining a neutral sitting posture?

Exploring lumbar and lower limb kinematics and kinetics for evidence that lifting technique is associated with LBP

Evidence for an inherited predisposition to lumbar disc disease

The Twin Spine Study: contributions to a changing view of disc degeneration

Why Sitting Posture is Mostly Irrelevant to Future Pain

Effects of sex differences on scapular motion during arm elevation

In vivo 3-dimensional analysis of scapular kinematics: comparison of dominant and nondominant shoulders

Scapular Dyskinesis Is Not an Isolated Risk Factor for Shoulder Injury in Athletes

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