If your ear is forward of that line, your head is forward of its normal alignment. The correct posture for the head is when the center of the hole in your ear (external auditory meatus) is in line with the tip of your shoulder (the tip of the acromian process). Problems Caused by the Forward Head Posture On my way to teach class at 6:30am one morning I saw several people running with forty-pound kettlebells behind their necks!įorward Head Syndrome can be compounded by weak back muscles, an inflexible spine and tight hips. How many times have you seen someone bending their head forward to stare into a laptop, or walking head-down, looking at their cell phone? Or riding a bike with the head tilted forward and sideways to hold a phone, or kids tilted forward, straining against the weight of a heavy back pack? What are they carrying in there? Even the “I am in a hurry” New York walk, where the head is forward and one’s mind seems to be a block ahead of one’s body, is a culpritĮxercising incorrectly can also contribute to Forward Head Syndrome: military presses and squats with the bar behind your neck, or jogging with the upper body hunched forward, are both contributors. It is also easy to catch oneself falling into this posture. We all see people actively creating the Forward Head Posture every day. Sleeping with the head elevated too high.Too much sitting and not enough movement in one’s daily life.Forward Head Posture, or Forward Head Syndrome (FHS), can cause a host of symptoms often attributed to neurological disorders, allergic asthma, disc and joint degeneration, and vascular problems.įorward Head Syndrome is caused by habits which cause one to engage in poor posture for long periods of time: What helped cure my problem? The Back Stretch Exercise, which gets results in only 10 minutes a day.įorward Head Posture (FHP) is a term used to describe a posture in which the cervical spine is positioned forward, and the head moves forward relative to the shoulders. As I tried to figure out what was going on, I also noticed in the mirror that my head was tilted slightly forward. It could have been a serious neurological problem, but in fact was simply due to sitting too much, with my head forward, staring at the computer, and not maintaining the normal amount of daily movement and exercise because I was so intensely involved in my writing. The numbness rapidly became a problem in the days that followed as I noticed I was getting low grade headaches, and had difficulty turning my head. By Tom Bisio (photos by Valerie Ghent), republished with the author’s permission The Texting Disease: What is Forward Head Syndrome?Ī few years ago I was sitting at the computer working on a book project, and my arm went numb.
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