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Hi there, Welcome to our January edition Happy New Year everybody! I hope you have all started it with a bang and are enjoying 2018. We had a great 2017 at Essex Business and Leisure and a big part of our success is down to you, our readers. We appreciate every single last one of you that take the time to have a quick read through the magazine and all the small Businesses really appreciate that you keep it local and use their services. We are looking forward to bringing you more of the same throughout 2018. If you didn’t notice last month we have now started a local events page featuring some events in the local area. We have updated these with events in January and early February for you. We also have a great article from Stuart Lawrence from Spinal & Natural about how your tummy could be harming your back on a daily basis. Remember the new year is
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IS YOUR TUMMY LETTING YOUR BACK DOWN Before reading on, I’d like you to participate in a brief experiment (as an incentive, participating will make you look slimmer). Slouch down on your sofa and relax. Now look down and see what your tummy is doing – perhaps it is falling forward away from your body. Now, sit upright on a firm chair with your legs uncrossed and your knees bent and ankles slightly behind your knees. Look straight ahead and, you may find that you need to tuck you head back slightly, line up your ears, shoulders and hips in a vertical straight line. Now look down and you should find that, even without purposefully holding your tummy in, the bulge has flattened. This is because the internal corsetry of your tummy is able to work properly when you have good posture. Far more important than making you look trimmer, this position aids rather than harms your spinal health. The bones in your spine (vertebrae) have squishy, liquid filled discs in between them that act as shock absorbers. As you move, the vertebrae compress together or pull apart and liquid is forced in or out of the discs. During the day, your vertebrae compress down under the force of gravity and the discs gradually flatten a little. You actually lose a little height! When you go to bed and stretch out, the lubricating liquid can seep back in and your shock-absorbing discs swell ready for a new day. But where movement is restricted (eg from poor posture or injury) then the liquid cannot return into the discs. Eventually this will affect the movement of the spine and lead to painful problems. When you sit slouched with weak tummy muscles, the contents of your abdomen spill forward dragging your spine downwards compounding the compression effect of gravity. This increases the pressure on the lower discs forcing even more liquid out of them. So adopting
good posture when sitting (particularly for long periods such as at the office or whilst watching TV) is crucial in maintaining a freely moving spine. In addition to sitting up properly, the strength of your tummy muscles affects how well your spine is protected. Unfortunately unlike some muscles, the tummy and back muscles (the ‘core muscles’) are not exercised in everyday movement and you need to consciously stretch and strengthen them. Without specific exercise to target these muscles they will naturally weaken over time increasing the chance of developing or worsening back pain. Now normally here I would outline some simple exercises that you can perform at home but I believe that it is so important to perform core muscle exercises correctly that I would prefer that you went to a class or saw an experienced trainer. If you perform core exercises whilst you are twisted or out of alignment, it is very easy to strengthen and stretch one side more than the other. The now weak or overly tight supporting muscles can then have painful spasms and suffer injuries themselves, which then prevent them from supporting the spine as needed and increase the risk of back injury. Our list of trusted rehabilitation providers will whilst working with us, easily be able to perform full posture assessments and teach you home exercises to develop your core muscles. Crucially, should they see a problem that needs further investigation, they will be able to refer you directly back to myself or one of my colleagues if they feel that you first need a chiropractic adjustment to tackle any structural misalignments.
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LOCAL EVENTS A monthly round up of local events and what’s on in your area. If you suffer from FOMO hopefully this will be the helping hand you need.
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