thought I'd bring back High Hair Lady

[fflo]

Maybe her posture will rub off on me.

Holly's grandmother was taught to sit as if her spine was fused to an iron rod. I pictured one of those pieces of metal with little semi-scored divisions that you see at construction sites---I think they put them inside concrete to reinforce it. Kinda like long Tootsie rolls.

Hmmm... we haven't had a poll here in a while:

[Poll #464633]

Comments

[windswept.livejournal.com]

I've made NY resolutions about my posture, bought books for posture exercises, etc., but I never have followed through. :^(

I know I look disgusting, so I really wish I had some old-school teacher who'd whack me with a cane whenever she saw me slouching.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm not going to be able to resist chiding you for "I look disgusting"---c'mon, crazyp: disgusting? For me, anyway, the issue isn't one of appearance. (At least not unless/until it means me being an old lady, should I make it that far, who's slumped over all the time.) I do buy that alignment is good for the ol' physiog, though, and I too wish there were some old-school reminder teacher lurking about.

Maybe someone can successfully market the Posture Policer (or, better, a name that doesn't involve law enforcement): a battery-powered desktop figurine of a stern elder that either detects slouching & reacts with a rebuke (I'd prefer a verbal one to caning, m'self) or just spouts off a chastising reminder every so many minutes. Of course these days it could just be a computer desktop buddy, done by programming.

[atleastdefiant.livejournal.com]

No you don't. Then you'd be like me and unable to slouch. I usually look really unnatural on pictures because I do the military thing: shoulders back! spine straight! chin raised! Slouching causes me pain. Plus, the nuns told me i would get scoliosis if I didn't stand straight, but as a kid I confused that with osteoporosis, so when I slouch it seems I can feel my bones weakening.

[groovesinorbit]

11 years of piano lessons leave their mark.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

'Tis true: you have some of the best posture of my similarly-aged acquaintanceship.

[groovesinorbit]

I've noticed it worsening as I get older, though. Did I tell you I have a dowager's hump?

[fflo.livejournal.com]

No! Denise had one of those. When I think about that general area of your body, I mostly think about the half-removed thingie. I love that story.

[groovesinorbit]

I didn't know that about D. The birthwart compromise is a good story.

[groovesinorbit]

Your link doesn't work for me--some kind of error page came up. Carole had some kind of surgery concerning her tailbone when we were in high school, I seem to remember.

fixed the link

[fflo.livejournal.com]

"birthwart"! love the woid

D also had a scar on her ass from where she had a vestigial tail removed as a child had a vestigial tail removed as a child.

Re: fixed the link

[groovesinorbit]

Interesting stuff.

[paperkingdoms]

Add "improved posture" to the list of awesome things about belly dance.

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

My answer to the poll requires several clarifying details:

1) Technically, I'm physically incapable of sitting up completely straight, since I have scoliosis. My spine has an 8-degree curve in it. But it's a left-to-right curve, not a front-to-back curve.

2) The RSI in my shoulders causes me instant extreme pain whenever I slip a single millimeter out of perfect ergonomic position when typing, yet as long as I stay in perfect ergonomic position at every second, it never hurts at all. This gives me constant reminders to always sit up absolutely as straight as I possibly can, to a much greater extent than I ever would otherwise.

3) However, back before a rotten furniture setup damaged my shoulders eight years ago, people did already tell me that I had good posture.