Posture Orthodontist

80% of the problems caused by bad living habits and muscle strain include chest hunchback, forward head extension, high and low shoulders, and false hip width. A reliable orthodontist can indeed help you see improvements 3-5 times faster than practicing blindly on your own. However, if you have pathological scoliosis, lumbar protrusion compressing nerves, or bony leg problems, don’t come to us, go to the hospital first.

To be honest, the water in this industry is really muddy right now. It’s no wonder that many people think it’s an IQ tax. I met a girl who works in Internet operations a while ago. She spent 20,000 yuan on a correction package at an Internet celebrity agency. Every time she went there, she had a massage. After the massage, she saw that her back was indeed straight. She went back to work for two hours and returned to her original shape. After she found me, I discovered that her problem was not a crooked bone at all, but a long-term problem with breathing through the mouth and typing on her stomach. Her sternocleidomastoid and pectoralis minor muscles were as tight as a stretched rubber band. If she just broke the bones without loosening the muscles to adjust her habits, could she not rebound?

There have been two factions in the industry that have been arguing for many years, and no one can convince the other. One group is for structural adjustment, relying on bone setting and chiropractic to quickly pull the misaligned joints back into alignment. The advantage is that it is effective on the spot, and it can alleviate the problems of acute stiff neck and joint compression very quickly. However, the shortcomings are also obvious. If the subsequent muscle strength cannot keep up and the daily habits are not changed, the body will rebound in two or three weeks. If you encounter someone with poor skills, violent bone setting may even damage the ligaments. When I first entered the industry, I also followed the trend of bone setting. Later, I met a client who was dizzy for a long time after the adjustment. He went to the hospital to find out that the vertebral artery was irritated. Since then, I have basically stopped doing violent adjustments. Of course, this does not mean that bone setting is not good. It is still very useful if you find the right person and choose the right indication. On the other hand, we do functional training. We basically don’t touch the bones. We first give you a full set of assessments: standing to look at the bone strength lines, walking to look at the gait, lying down to measure the strength of each muscle, and even observing how you breathe, type, and carry your backpack to find the root cause of your posture. We then target weak muscles and loose muscles and change your daily movement patterns. Although there are basically no obvious changes in the first two weeks, as long as you persist, you will basically not rebound after improvement. There really is no better system, it all depends on your needs: if you want to attend a wedding and take wedding photos in an emergency, it’s no problem to go to the structural system for quick adjustment, but if you want to make long-term changes, you still have to go the route of functional adjustment.

Oh, by the way, some people asked me if the more painful the adjustment, the more effective it will be? That's just nonsense. When I do relaxation for clients, I always ask the intensity repeatedly. It's just right if the pain is enough to make you frown slightly. If it hurts so much that your whole body tenses up, the muscles will fight against it, which will have no effect at all, and it's easy to get strained.

Last month, I picked up a guy who was delivering goods in the same city. His right shoulder was almost 2 centimeters lower than his left shoulder. His right trapezius muscle felt as hard as a dry washboard. He said he had had a massage before and it felt good for two days after the massage, but the pain returned as soon as the product was delivered. I didn’t adjust his bones. I first taught him to switch sides when carrying goods and not always use his right shoulder. Then I taught him two trapezius stretching exercises that he can do while sitting on an electric car waiting at a red light. I also taught him how to use a mineral water bottle to exercise his middle and lower trapezius muscles when he got home from get off work. When he came back two weeks later, his shoulders were basically flat, and his shoulder pain was 80% relieved. You see, there is no unified correction plan. It has to fit everyone's living habits to be effective. You can't ask a guy who runs 12 hours a day to deliver goods to take one hour a day to practice yoga like a girl in the office, right?

Many people have misunderstandings about us. Some people think that we are gods. We can turn our round shoulders into girlish backs with two clicks, straighten our O-shaped legs, and even grow 3 centimeters taller.； Either you think we are liars, why don’t we just teach you a few stretching exercises? I can learn them myself on Douyin. To be honest, the actions on Douyin are all correct, but you don’t know what your problem is? The same problem is head extension. Some people have upper cross syndrome, some people have cervical spine straightening, some people have lowered their heads to look at mobile phones for a long time, and some people have flat feet that cause the force line to tilt upward. If you follow others to practice raising your head, the more you practice, the more your neck will hurt.

I would like to remind everyone from the bottom of my heart that when you go to an orthodontist, don’t just go for one that is well-decorated and recommended by internet celebrities. They will give you guarantees such as “adjusting your shoulders to a right angle in 10 times” and “curing your scoliosis in one month”. The first sentence of a regular orthodontist will definitely ask you whether you have any past medical history and whether you have taken any relevant films. They will first evaluate you for more than half an hour and explain to you clearly the cause of your problem, the extent to which it can be improved, and how long it will take. They will not give you a huge picture. There are also those who will snap your neck as soon as they come up, so run away quickly. Before formal adjustments, they will definitely check you first to see if there is vertebral artery stenosis and other problems with the cervical spine. They will not do anything right away.

After working in this business for so long, I always feel that we are not actually "orthodontists", but more like everyone's "body repairmen". If you work on your body every day, work 12 hours a day, lie in bed and use your mobile phone for 3 hours, and eat for a long time, your body will naturally have problems. We just help you find what is broken, teach you how to repair it, and how to use it in the future so that it will not break easily. To put it bluntly, the best orthodontist is actually yourself. Paying more attention to your body habits in daily life will be much more effective than spending tens of thousands of yuan to correct your problems.