do you have strange posture

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people tell me i have a hunched back and i walk like i have a stick up my a** and i walk on my heels, im only a teen. any advice

Yeah if I do not consciously make an effort to stand up straight hold my shoulder back and head up I will slouch. Many years ago I saw this inventor who made a kind of vest you wear that will beep when you slouch. Something like that might be worn to treat your dyspraxia. You would slowly over time learn to control the muscles automatically. Its some what a complex task though because when I consciously correct the problem I tend to unnaturally over flex or position muscles. So it would help if a training device would alert you to not over correct to.

Ive never had good posture, my body isnt disfigured from it yet.

I have a very bad posture. I slouch and my head is usually tilted to one side. Over the years I have tried hard to correct my posture but unless I'm conscious of it, I slip right back into it. I do have a sort of brace that looks like short tight vest. It helps somewhat, but gets to be uncomfortable after wearing it for any length of time.

My posture is my wort problem. I've got Scheuermann's disease, which is a spinal deformity (kyphosis) and it was caused by fast growth when I was younger. It's terrible, I'm always in pain and I've just started a postural treatment with braces and exercises. I hope it gets better, 'cause it hurts like hell!

I wrote a bit about it in my blog section: http://www.wrongplanet.net/modules.php? ... w&jid=4812

A tip I can give is to make sure the tip where your ribs meet in the middle of your chest is pulled upwards at all times.
Condition yourself to think of this, and make sure to do it whether standing or sitting.
I think of a fishing hook being caught in my ribcage and pulled upwards, but I'm too heavy for the fisher guy up there to pull me up. Weird, but it works for me.

It will feel weird at first and you will feel like you look busty, but the fact is that you will look more sexy and confident if you do so, and after a while, you will feel more sexy and confident.
It works for your overall posture.

Plus, if it feels weird, you can always condition yourself so that when it doesn't feel weird, you notice it and can go back to lifting your chest.

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yes, my posture is dodgy. even tho i do yoga and whatnot. not all the time but definately yes!

sepia: nil points

my posture is a mess. My doctor noticed it after a car accident. She was checking my shoulders for injury and became shocked at how hard the muscles were back there. I walk kinda funny too. like a duck.

My posture is TOO poised. Even as a very young child, I stood up completely straight. I've always walked "like a snob," so to speak. I simply cannot relax many of my muscles in public, because my mind wants desperately to give off the impression that I am a consistently put-together person.

My partner's posture is- interesting. I attribute it to congenital scoliosis, not to the fact that he is also an Aspergian.

Apparently my body posture is slightly awkward when viewed from the outside, and when I walk, the way I do so is very uneven (one hip and one ankle get very sore if I walk for too long), so it's almost like I have a limp.

I think I have that too. I was diagnosed with mild scaliosis (5 degrees) but that doesn't cause problems. It's the foreward curve (kyphosis) that causes discomfort. I guess mine was too mild to require a brace but it still hurts sometimes.

I did physical therapy for a long time but it never helped any. I also lift weights now. Having broader shoulders and more back muscle disquises it some but I still have pain. It's an achy feeling under my shoulder blades and feeling like I need to sit in a chair constantly. I hate people thinking I'm lazy because I need to sit. My back just gets tired.

The worst part is that I can't carry a heavy backpack without a lot of pain. This really sucks because I want to do overnight backpacking some time. Is there some kind of tight vest that you can wear to support your back? It would be nice to have something that would help me carry a backpack without the stupid pain.

If yours is really bad maybe you can get surgery. I would get surgery for mine but the doctors would probably say it is unnecessary.

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I started out walking on tip-toe during childhood. This continued throughout school. I have also been told that I walk "a little forward" (not sure what that means). The good news is that the problem has cleared up over time. Now I'm pretty much walking like a NT.

Posture has a lot to do with stomach muscles, if you do some work on those (eg sit ups) you can improve posture.

A lot of ppl i know includin my parents say dat i have bad posture cos wen i walk my head is always down n don't really look up but 2 me it doesn't really bother cos at da end of da day im a human being nothin wrong wid dat.

Yeah, but the first days, it may hurt in your back, but it will stop after a while.
Start of with one or two and work your way up.
When I started, I couldn't do 10, but after a week, I was doing 60 like it was no business.

Also, I've set my clock to beep every hour, and then I drop and do 10 push-ups.
I reccon I get between 30 to 150 push-ups every day. Good for the stomach, back and upper body, and not very straining since I spread it out in such a fashion.

true, yeah you can strain your back with sit ups, so take it slowly. you can do them with knees bent, that's not quite as straining. an easy one is just sucking your stomach in and holding it with your muscles, that will improve stomach muscle tone.