5 Exercises to Strengthen Your Postural Muscles

It’s easy to develop bad posture and harder to make it good again. Thankfully, these exercises can help bring you back to your best posture and quality of life.
5 Exercises to Strengthen Your Postural Muscles
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Maintaining good posture can be challenging, especially as we age or when we have jobs that require us to sit or stand in certain positions. Poor postural habits tend to magnify over time, making the road back to your best postural health even more difficult. Worse, the more your posture degrades, the more pain you can experience in your day-to-day routines and the greater the chance you have of experiencing a diminished quality of life.

Let’s work on that posture by strengthening the muscles involved in postural support.

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Kevin Shelley
Kevin Shelley
Kevin Shelley is a licensed occupational therapist with over 30 years of experience in major health care settings. He is a health columnist for The Epoch Times.