Tail Bone Pain – The Best Way To Sit Comfortably
Most people spend much of their time sitting. Whether it is commuting to work, and coming home and sitting and reading or watching the TV, we spend the majority of our days in a sitting position. Sitting focuses much of the body’s weight onto our tailbone and if you are a person that experiences tail bone pain, each and everyday can be an annoying experience.
Unless you have had a severe problem with your tailbone, such as breaking it, you do not have to fret about tailbone pain. There are various exercises you can do to help strengthen your tailbone and help you improve posture. If you incorporate such exercises on a regular basis you will strengthen your muscles and as your posture improves, so will your tailbone pain.
Having good posture does not only mean standing and walking correctly. It also affects other aspects of one’s life, such as in the way you stand, walk, perform tasks, and even the position in which you sleep. All of this is important and must be taken into consideration when addressing tailbone pain. A good posture program should examine and deal with most of these issues, but many do not.
The tailbone is the last bone of our spine, and it is one of the most important bones in our body because it is one of the body’s most acute support structures. The spine is supported and kept aligned by hundreds of small muscles that must allow you to move about and provide structural support. The tailbone should be able to move freely, but unfortunately, that is not always the case.
Sometimes our postures compromise these conflicting goals. Unfortunately, the way in which we sit puts tremendous pressure onto our tail bone, which was not meant to support weight. Imagine, for a moment, the spine as separated from the body. The head, roughly the weight of a bowling ball, sits atop a wobbly and narrow support structure ending in a small point. Now pile on various internal organs around the lower spine, each applying their own weight to this tiny bone, and perhaps you begin to see why your tail bone may be experiencing terrible pain.
All the pressure and weight presses in this small area everyday and overtime will cause problems. The tailbone should move freely, however because of all the weight and pressure, the muscles surrounding it will tense up and try to help keep you upright and in good posture. In result, the tailbone locks up and soon all that weight will press upon the newly tightened muscles. The pain is an indication that you must gain a better posture, where the weight can be better distributed.
Thankfully, fixing this problem only involves a simple change in habits. Your hipbones are flat and much wider than your tailbone. Therefore, they can distribute weight more evenly. If you tilt your pelvis forward slightly, you will take weight off the tailbone and shift it onto the hips. This will free tense muscles and allow them to begin relaxing. As the muscles relax, the pain will lessen.
You can easily relieve your tailbone pain by increasing the flexibility in your lower back. By loosening and strengthening the lower back muscles, tilting your pelvis will become easier. You can incorporate these stretches into your daily routine and do them just about anywhere, even at work. Lower backstretches are not painful; in fact, they are simple, and very enjoyable. Each time you do these lower backstretches, you will feel temporary relief of pain, and over time, you will not have to deal with any pain at all.
When looking for a program to improve your posture, make sure that it includes a good series of lower backstretches. Stretching the lower back provides abdominal strength that is needed for the forward pelvic tilt that will rid of your tailbone pain.
Apart from not having to deal with pain, people with good posture appear more confident and self assured. Good posture changes how people view you and treat you. With a superb postural enhancement program, you will both be relieving your back and tailbones pains, and change how others perceive you. This can in result be one of the healthiest life changing decisions you can make.
