What is Health, Really?
Is it when you feel good or don’t have symptoms?
No!
With heart disease, a heart attack is usually the first symptom. 80% of deaths resulting from heart disease in people under 65 occurs during the first heart attack. (American Heart Association)
Our definition: Health is having 100% of function of all your body, 100% of the time.
You can’t guage your health on symptoms alone!
And to take that a step further, posture plays a huge role in health:
“Posture and normal physiology and function are interrelated. Abnormal posture is evident in patients with chronic pain-related conditions including backache, headache, and stress-related illnesses.”
AJPM 1994;4:36-39
In this article from the January 1994 issue of the American Journal of Pain Management, the authors state that the significant influence of posture on health is not addressed by most physicians. I would add, that unfortunately, postural correction is not part of main stream chiropractic practice as yet either. However, as the authors go on to state, “posture affects and moderates every physiologic function from breathing to hormonal production. Spinal pain, headache, mood, blood pressure, pulse and lung capacity are among the functions most easily influenced by posture.”
Obviously, the proper assessment, analysis, and if possible correction of abnormal posture is an extremely important component of modern health care