Over the past 10 or more years I’ve been concerned about my blood pressure.  It has tended to jog high 165/110. My pulse was too fast hovering around 80 at  resting as well as climbing to 120 when I insulted my body with the wrong foods -  mostly anything with wheat/grain in it.
Last time I took one of those physicals on behalf of the insurance company I passed  with flying colors - except my blood pressure. This, as some of you know, causes  your premium to sore. To get the lower premium you have to get your blood  pressure down as well as have your doctor certify that this is indeed the case - they  won’t take your word on behalf of it.
You’re probably wondering what this has to do with exercise as well as forward head  posture. I’m getting to that so please read on 
This morning I got up as well as took my blood pressure. It was a little high. So I  took it again. Your blood pressure can fluctuate considerable from moment to  moment. For some reason I decided to tilt my head back when I took it the second  time as well as I got a considerable lowering reading. I too am a self made victim of  forward head carriage as I spend a lot of time on the computer, driving a car,  watching TV - well anything we do in a seated position is going to create  forward head carriage; it’s that simple.
When I tilted my head back as well as got the lower reading I thought that it must  be affecting the carotid arteries. There are two of these on either side of our  necks as well as they supply blood from the heart to our brain. that makes them pretty  important. I tilted my head back as well as took my blood pressure again. It was really  low again 128/65. Wow!
All of a sudden I got a flash. I remembered how I got nosedrops down my  stuffed up nose when I was a kid. I’d lie sideways on the bed with my head  tilted over the edge. I thought, hey this might help with my forward head  carriage. So I assumed the position. As soon as I started to drop my head into  this extended position I felt my body react. I got pains in my shoulders - more  in the right. My back muscles tensed up as if they were saying: “Wow, what are  you doing? You never put your head like that as well as you anticipate us to like it? It  was obvious they didn’t.
I decided to put my head over the edge a little more. The reaction throughout  my body was too intense. I had to back off. I get back to neutral as well as edged my  head over the side, creating a reaction that I could at least deal with. The right  shoulder burned. I found myself take my hands combined over my chest as well as  started doing yoga like movement bringing them up as well as reaching over my head. I  repeated this several times. Hands together, up over the head doing variations  the left as well as right. This helped loosen the tense muscles as well as soon caused  releases (indicated by cracking) in my shoulder.
I bent my knees as well as shifted them to the left, back to center, as well as than to the  right. I than did this in concert with my arms. All the while with my head  tilted over the edge of the bed. Once I’d done this on behalf of a few minutes, I  increased my head tilt again. This time I could maintain the position as well as I  again performed movements to help ease my bodies reaction. Don’t forget to turn  your head from side to side a few times - this increases left/right  rotation.
It seems that we spend so much time in a forward head carriage  position that it inflicts a host of responses as well as adaptations in the muscles of  the body as well as the bones they’re attached to. For as the saying goes -  muscles transfer bones.
I don’t desire you to think I spent a lot of time doing this. It was maybe 5  minutes. I got back into a seated position. Raised up my chin as well as took another  blood pressure reading with the result of 125/68.
I’m going to spent a few minutes every morning putting my head over the edge  of the bed into the extension position. Perhaps this shall help counteract the  numerous hours throughout the day that I spend seated which is diagnostic of forward  head carriage as well as a whole host of related postural distortions that I, as a  Chiropractor, treat daily.
I encourage you to perform this exercise yourself, everday! It shall likely,  lower your blood pressure, improve your posture as well as reverse some of the damage  you’re doing to your spine as well as joints.
I’m going to do another round. I at all times liked yoga where we repeated an  exercise position (asana) three times. You do that in the gym too, don’t you?  Let’s agree to do three reps of 5 minutes each  with our heads over the edge of the bed, in extension.
Yours in Health - Dr. Ted Edwards DC - Edmonds Chiropractic Therapy Clinic
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