How to prevent or manage Lordosis

Lordosis is also known as Hyperlordosis,
Swayback or Saddleback. Two of the most
common postural flaws are: Anterior Pelvic
Tilt and Kyphosis. Anterior Pelvic Tilt leads to
Lordosis. Anterior Pelvic tilt and Lordosis
manifest themselves as a protruding Gut
and Butt. Kyphosis and a ‘forward head’
position makes you look hunched over and
appear shorter. When you put the two
together, you end up with the typical North
American slouched posture. Along with the
whole frame looking fat and short, you are
likely to suffer from headaches, neck pain,
bicep tendinitis, dry mouth, pain under the
shoulder blades, mid back pain, lower back
pain, lateral knee pain, torn knee ligaments,
hamstring tears, plantar fasciitis and
sciatica.
Lordosis is actually a very common
condition, and the severity depends upon
the person and his/her imbalance. Many
people have lordosis without even realising
it; others are aware of the pain, but
unaware of the condition.
Lordosis is an exaggerated lumbar curve in
the spine. It is caused by overactive or tight
hip flexors, weak hip extensors, and weak
abdominals. Many people that sit down a lot
during the day have lordosis and others
that do a lot of sit ups have it. Notice a lot of
people come out of the military with lower
back pains. Most of the time it is caused by
loads of sits ups that are required to
maintain physical fitness.
"Bad" posture: It is the clinical manifestation
of a deviation from good posture scheme
regardless if it is caused by the function or
a change of the structure. Functional
deviation may in time lead to a change of
the structure. The causes of bad posture
may be divided into internal and external
factors.
The internal factors include: The condition
of the skeleton, musculature and skin
(skeleton build, myopathies, scars),
neurological status (paresis or paralysis),
sensory functions (the senses of sight,
hearing, vestibular apparatus), psychical
states (serious depressions, moronity,
idiopathy), general health conditions
(anemia, respiratory diseases, cachexia)
The external factors include: bad work
furniture (bad school desks, office furniture,
and the like), a bad bed (the mattresses not
firm enough to support the body, and other
defects), bad clothes (tight shoulder articles,
wearing the bags under the arms), the
process of learning a hard trade during the
development of the skeleton, which is not in
condition to bear a heavy burden. Bad
posture may be developed at any age
depending on conditions of the locomotor
apparatus, body loading and body position.
In bad posture, the corresponding
conditioned reflexes are formed
maintaining muscle tone of such kind to
cause bad posture.
Good posture plays a very important role in
normal function of the locomotor apparatus
and internal organs, and also in esthetics. In
the developing persons, good posture plays
a very important role in normal and
symmetrical development of the whole
body.
In curing bad posture, we are primarily
trying to eliminate the factors causing bad
posture wherever possible, for example,
surgical removal of skin scars with plastic
surgery techniques, or a dioptre correction
in relation to the sense of sights, etc. It is
also necessary to eliminate all external
factors causing bad posture.
The method for correction of bad posture in
men at different ages is as follows: The
patient takes a relaxed upright body
position with shoulders slightly pulled
backward. The patient imagines a vertical
plane passing through the
middle of both his shoulders (frontal plane).
The patient tries to put the front part of his
chest in the parallel position with respect to
this vertical plane, and also his shoulder
blades, while his head and pelvis take the
corresponding position spontaneously. The
patient tries to take such body position as
often as possible while standing and/or
sitting. The patient carries out different
exercises, especially exercises for
strengthening of the dorsal musculature, for
10 to 15 minutes. Three times a day.
The method for correction of bad posture in
women at differ.
How to prevent or manage Lordosisent
ages is as follows: The patient takes a
relaxed upright body position with
shoulders slightly pulled backward. The
patient imagines a vertical plane passing
through the middle of both her shoulders.
The patient tries to lean her shoulder blades
against the imagined vertical plane, while
her head and pelvis take the corresponding
position spontaneously. The patient tries to
take such body position as often as possible
while standing and/or sitting. The patient
carries out different exercises, especially
exercises for strengthening of the dorsal
musculature, for 10 to15 minutes three
times a day.
The anterior pelvic tilt, called "lordosis" can
be fixed in many ways. The solution is first
to stretch the overactive muscles - in this
case the hip flexors and strengthen the abs
and hip extensors. How can you strengthen
the abs without the hip flexors too?
Isometric ab work like planks. How can you
strengthen the hip extensors? Stiff-leg dead
lifts and low bar squats can do the job, so
can glute hamstring raises.