Can a Posture Pump really help restore a proper curve?
Will bone spurs formation slow down if I have a proper curve?
As the previous post mentioned, the proper curves in the back are important. The videos below are a How To on using the Posture pump for the low back or neck.
When we do not have proper curves (a C shape) then the front of the spine has to bear more weight. Wolfe’s Law says that bone density will increase where more weight and burden is applied to. (bone in a healthy person or animal will adapt to the loads under which it is placed. If loading on a particular bone increases, the bone will remodel itself over time to become stronger to resist that sort of loading…thanks Wikipedia). Bones becoming stronger is great if we are talking about a 75 year old female doing weight bearing exercise so that the hips stay strong. However, when the neck and low back are straight that causes more weight on the front of the vertebrae. Over time the body will lay down more bone in those areas and we call that arthritis/ bone spurs. It’s the same reason we get heel spurs. By using the posture pump, the muscles get stretched and the curve is induced and potentially restored.
[Tweet “#neck #lowback are straight:more weight on front of #vertebrae = #arthritis”]I like to use this analogy to understand the process: Think of jello. Once the jello is heated up it is in a more liquid state and can be poured into any mode you can imagine. Now the jello is allowed to cool in the mode (say a fleur de lis bundt cake shape) and when you remove the mode it looks just like the fleur de lis. The same analogy can be used for your spine. The warmup exercise on the posture pump gets the muscles warm, then you pump it up and down to stretch the muscles and train the vertebrae and then you cool off with the air bladder inflated so all the structures cool off in the proper curve alignment. WALA you are training the soft tissue to support the vertebrae in proper lordosis (curve).
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