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PosturePals
PosturePals are adhesive spinal supports designed by a Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist to help manage your spinal alignment or posture, allowing you to move better, feel better and look better.
PosturePals work in three ways:
1. Restriction:
The supports are designed to prevent you from adopting poor postures by maintaining the spine at or near its neutral (unloaded) position.
2. Recognition:
Although backs are made to bend you may find that you are habitually adopting poor postures or feel that slouched or flexed postures are a problem. PosturePals will help draw your attention to the positions or activities that take your spine out of the neutral posture (there will be more than you expect). You can then modify your activities accordingly. You might need to change your desk set up, your car seat position or the position in which you sleep.
3. Re-Education:
By force of habit slouching feels normal or comfortable while correct sitting feels abnormal or awkward. PosturePals help to correct this anomaly. PosturePals possess elastic characteristics. Therefore, whenever you move away from a good posture, PosturePals exert a gentle correcting force that prompts you to actively improve your posture. Actively correcting means that you use your own muscles, which may help to improve strength and endurance. Through repetition and constant correction, you will start to learn a new posture, just as you might learn a new golf swing through practicing hundreds of times.
Cost:$25
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