Is your body in balance?

Habitual postures, repetitive activities, and old injuries can contribute to muscular imbalances. These imbalances can cause pain and can also put you at risk for injury!

For example, regularly wearing high heels or sitting with your heels propped up on a chair are examples that contribute to muscle tightness in the back of your legs (the gastrocnemius and soleus muscles). This is a major cause of heel pain, and also affects the feet, the knees, and even fall risk!

Here‘s an article exploring imbalances or “one-sidedness,” as the author calls it, and is a wake-up call to becoming aware of habitual postures and where we feel discomfort.