Face it … Unless you’ve avoided the last 500 years of advancement in civilization and technology …Your back is taking abuse from your modern lifestyle. This abuse comes primarily in the form of … SITTING!  

It’s a common experience … You wake up in the morning after a harmless night’s sleep, only to find that your neck is frozen in pain, preventing you from turning your head side to side.

Sounds reasonable and logical, and that is the lure of running, but studies agree that at least 70 % of runners will injure. Some severely, while most will suffer more benign injuries that, if left untreated, can develop into life changing challenges.

In every field technology has advanced but 200 years after the first arch supports were fashioned from horse hair it still seems everyone believes they need to support their feet with arch supports. 

Bunions are often blamed on tight, pointed shoes, which would essentially contribute to pushing the big toes toward the second toes.  Women tend to wear more pointed shoes, and women do have the highest incident rate of bunions, but men are subject to getting bunions too, so perhaps there are more to bunions than pointed shoes.

I often read the Runners Wold tips for their running enthusiasts and would be enthusiasts who are injured when they offer tips on how to remain injury free.  This time the coach encourages you to push off with your big toes, and he tells you to think of the push off as a clawing motion.

Posture Dynamics has now been in business for 19 years, and really all we do with our insole technology is change foot mechanics. We don't support your feet, and we don't cushion your feet. We don't hold your arches up

There are a number of connections, and they directly or indirectly impact every part of your functioning body. Posture obviously impacts your muscles, tendons, joints and ligaments. Posture impacts the shape of the cavities in your body that houses your internal organs, digestive system, heart and lungs. Pressure and volume changes their function and efficiency. Let me illuminate a couple of problems you may not readily associate with posture.

I couldn't resist this image that is floating around on the web. I don't know who to give artistic credit to, but it just fit too well with this post. Don't let angry feet take you down.