There are many conditions that are associated with poor posture and wrong bodily position that may grow worse if not treated immediately. Many people get headaches, back and neck strain and fatigue due to difficulty in sleeping due to wrong position of the body. The inconveniences and pain caused by all the consequences of poor posture interfere with ones daily activities and work. There are many who suffer in silence, but there is a way to mitigate these conditions.

The best solution is to improve ones posture. One of the ways to do just that is to get support for the back. A back support cushion can do wonders for your posture whether you are lying down or sitting. This kind of pillow can help take out the discomforts due to bad posture and lack of support for the lower back. Now you can say goodbye to back and neck pains, headaches and sleepless nights.

How does a back support cushion work? Your spine supports your upper body and it is most subjected to stress whenever you are seated doing something or lying on your back. Whenever we sit down and work on something, we tend to extend our necks causing the spine to move forward. Doing this for extended periods can strain the ligaments and the muscles that surround the spine which results to discomfort. A back support cushion can ease the pain and discomfort by taking out the tension felt by the muscles and the ligaments in the lower back. Since the spine is pushed forward whenever one is seated and with the neck stretched forward, one needs to guide the backbone back to its S-shaped configuration. Using a back support pillow is one of the easiest and less straining ways to bring back this S-shaped configuration. This way, the lower back muscles and ligaments will not tense up. This leads to a better posture and less pain.

There are many kinds of back support pillows available in the market. There is a kind of back support cushion that is designed especially for those who sit in extended periods (i.e. those who work in offices and desk jobs). They are designed to fit in most conventional office chairs so that they would be able to effectively keep the ideal gap between the lower back and the backrest of a chair. There is also a back support pillow available for those who experience back pains whenever they drive. These pillows are smaller than the usual back support cushion in stores because they are designed to fit just into the drivers seat.

Before buying a support pillow, consult with your doctor regarding your back pains, headaches and other symptoms. There might be other reasons for the symptoms you are having. Your doctor will even help you choose the best back support or program that will best fit you and your condition.

t is normal for expecting moms to experience back pain. When you are pregnant, you gain lots of weight fast, your way of walking changes, and your hormones relax the ligaments and joints in your body.

However normal, it is not exciting to think about bearing back pain in addition to the dreaded morning sickness, constipation, rashes, hormonal changes, and even lifestyle changes that accompany pregnancy. Back pain in pregnant women can last up to three months after the delivery, and it is located mainly on hip joints, lower back, mid-back, neck, shoulders, and jaw joint.

You don’t have to endure the pain as one of the ’sacrifices’ of pregnancy. It is not hard at all to treat and even prevent back pain when you are pregnant; it just takes some self-care treatments and complementary therapies.

The human body has a powerful balance system that adapts in order to keep us straight under many different conditions. This system has two parts:

- The sensory part, which asks, “Where am I?”

- The motor part, which asks, “What am I going to do?”

Nevertheless, any adaptation has its inconveniences. When a woman’s weight increases around 25 pounds, her center of gravity and mass move forward. Right then, the balance system starts working to realign, slowly but steadily, the pelvis and spine to counter balance the extra weight. With time, the center of gravity will move back.

The spinal changes that occur are very foreseeable. The pelvis leans forward, the mid-back glides backwards, and the head and neck move in front of the shoulders. The spine has a natural ‘S’ shape curve caused by the joining of muscles and ligaments. If this curve changes, several muscles will stretch and others will shorten, causing the spine to be unstable, which in turn causes chronic tension in some muscle groups and extra strain on joints. If a muscle maintains a stretched position for far too long, eventually its fibers will elongate and weaken, the same as if a muscle is over-relaxed for extended periods of time, which shortens its fibers.

Another element of the pregnancy back pain equation is shear forces. A person with normal posture experiences downward gravitational and directional shear forces that work with the body to secure the joints into position under load, giving strength and stability to the spine. Pregnant women experience the same gravitational forces but the shear forces change direction to open the lower back joints, giving less stability to the spine. The body feels this, and the lower back muscles tighten to offer support.

During pregnancy, it is very clear which muscles weaken due to stretch and which due to shortening, making it easy for a professional to design an exercise program to strengthen those muscles. Also, appropriate back supports can help alleviate the pain while sitting down.

This is an unavoidable but manageable situation for pregnant women; it just requires the right effort to improve posture given the extra weight that will be endured, and the right preventive measures.

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