So what is a neutral posture? What is a correct posture. If you take a look, oh stand to the side, a correct posture has your head sitting directly over the neck, your shoulders right over your hips, and your hips in line with your ankles. And you can see the top back of my head is lifting up a little bit, almost as if there is a string being pulled up through the spine, through the top back of the head. That means my chin is tilted just slightly. In this posture, you can see a really straight line and an ease of the musculature.

The muscles have an easier time holding the weight of the head up when it's balanced right on top. But this is not the way that most of us stand. If you notice it. You'll see small children do stand like this and their head is floating upwards off of their very erect spine. But as we become adults as we learn poor postural habits, and now with the use of devices, we do start to bring our head forward, we're looking down a lot, and our head comes out of line. Right, you can see my head is come an inch or two forward from my spine, and now the weight of my head has doubled or more.

All of the muscles in the front of the neck are straining to keep the weight of the head there. And the muscles back here are pulling, pulling, pulling, trying to get the head back in space. And if you look around on the train, or out when you're shopping, or at work, you'll see everyone in this sort of posture Shoulders rounded forward, heads forward some people very extreme like this. imagined is how much weight these muscles that are only meant to hold 10 to 12 pounds up, how much extra weight they are trying to support as the head comes forward