r/PostureTipsGuide

Tried a posture tracking app for a week and it kinda surprised me.

I thought that it would just point out my poor sitting habits. Turns out that I was doing another thing constantly, adjusting my monitor screen. Moving it closer, tilting it, changing the height and then repeating throughout the day.

I never really saw it as a problem actually because it was a part of my routine. But since then I have been on the search for the desk setup fixes. I have found both manual and robotic arm with monitor screen. One requires some manual labor while the other is intuitive and follows you whenever you move. A solution for one thing. I can lean back down and relax.

It's nice to know that this kind of tech evolution is taking place.

But my posture issue is still there right now.

Also this makes me wonder if this is a me thing or if everyone else is also adjusting their screen throughout the day?

I mean I want to know if am the problem here

If you've been doing neck exercises for months with minimal results, this might be why.

Your spine works as one connected chain. When your hip flexors are chronically tight, they pull your pelvis into a forward tilt. That tilt increases the curve in your lower back. Your upper back compensates by rounding. And once your upper back rounds, your neck gets pushed forward to keep your eyes level.

By the time you notice your head is sitting forward, the pattern may have started all the way down at your hips. This is the last-domino problem. Neck exercises can't override a pattern that's being driven from below. The neck is just where it shows up, not where it starts.

Here’s a quick self-check: stand with your back against a wall. Your heels, glutes, upper back, and head should all touch comfortably without effort. If you have to actively flatten your lower back, or your head won't reach the wall, there's a good chance your pelvis is already tilting the whole chain forward.

The way to undo this pattern is to work with the chain, not against it. That means releasing tension around the hips and pelvis first, not starting with neck stretches or chin tucks. Key muscles to focus on often include the hip flexors, which are among the primary drivers of anterior pelvic tilt.

From there, working up through the thoracic and cervical regions, addressing muscles like the pec minor, upper traps, and suboccipitals, gives those areas a foundation to build upon. Release the bottom of the chain first, and the thoracic and cervical work that follows has a better chance to stick.

I’m curious to know what you’ve tried. Has anything actually moved the needle for you? If you want to learn more, I wrote an article on this topic and am happy to share it in the comments. It covers which muscles need releasing, which need retraining, and how to sequence it.

To give you a background, I was heavily into gyming 2 years ago, after 1 month of quitting gyming, I realized that, I have developed a protruding belly because my existing APT had become worse. Initially I was fine, then I started to deal with mild tailbone pain and developed ED and hard flaccid a month later.

My current symptoms are

1. No spontaneous errections

2. Worsing errections while laying down with angle change

3. 90 percent erection while standing

4. Clicking left hips, short left psos muscle with minor pain

5. Bowel dyssynergia

6. A ball like feeling in the left buttocks with minor pain and a tailbone pain while sitting.

7. Weak left gltues, core

A urologist did all the standard tests like bloodwork, dopler etc and ruled out any kind of structural, vascular and nerve damage.

Then went to a pelvic floor therapist who told me my pelvic floor is not that tight, my anal muscles are also not tight.

She is saying it's my hip, my glutes and my posture causing hard flaccid and Ed. So we have started to work on my posture.

Does anybody has a similar situation like me?

I hope people will take my question/point seriously.
I have never posted on this app.

I’m a guy who has SEVERE lumbar problems. One thing that helps my inoperable condition is “Careful attention to maintaining a posterior pelvic tilt.”

So, as I observe teenage females, and even models, MANY walk with their pelvis tilted forward while working to strengthen and enlarge their glutes. This will cause women serious problems as they age.

Lastly, I feel women believe it to be a seductive pose. After all, media promotes this to the most abhorrent of many male characters.
Be well, Ladies!