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I like to show you something very helpful to help correct this forward posture situation where

it's not the whole body going forward, but your neck is going past this midline right here.

Let me show you something on this spine right here. You can see this right here. So whether you're

sitting at your desk all day, creating this postural problem, or if it came from an old injury,

which I'm going to talk about, your head is anywhere between 12 and 15 to 17 pounds, it's like a

bowling ball, and it's resting on this little spine. So every inch that goes forward, it has a

tremendous amount of tension in the back part through here. Now, we have this connection between

the back of your skull called the oxyput, and the first bone right here called the atlas, okay?

And there's these really strong ligaments and tendons, and you have nerves back here. You also have

the brain stem that is right in this location, and that is the location of the parasympathetic

nervous system, okay? Another name for the parasympathetic nervous system is rest and digest.

So having a problem in this upper part of the neck can create problems with insomnia, it can

create problems with dizziness, okay? Or even pots, which is a condition where you're standing up,

and you're getting dizzy, and you have to lay down, you're not able to handle the adaptation

from lying down to standing, a lot of stiffness, a lot of constant tension in the upper neck, okay?

Now, when I was in practice, I would always ask people, have you ever had any compression

injuries to your head, whether something falling on your head, or you falling from some place landing

on your head? I remember when I was five years old swinging on a swing set, and I slipped off,

and I fell about three foot right on my head, okay? Creating a compression injury right through

this area. That was the start of my neck problems, and the reason I eventually went to see a chiropractor.

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