Jus wondered, because I slouch all the time.
2006-09-14 23:22:31 · 9 answers · asked by Yasmin H 3 in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Other - General Health Care
Slouching certainly can become a habit. The muscles in your body tend to adapt to positions that are maintained on a regular basis. So, the muscles on the front of your chest and shoulders can become chronically tight and eventually make standing straight hard. This can be reversed with stretching, but it takes work.
As a woman, especially, you also need to maintain your calcium levels to prevent osteoporosis. Among other things, osteoporosis can lead to multiple mini-fractures in the upper spine. The "widow's hump" you see in many older women is a result of the thoracic vertebrae deteriorating and causing the back to hunch.
2006-09-15 02:43:36 · answer #1 · answered by kathy_is_a_nurse 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
After you reach a certain age, your bones get thinner. Usually osteoporosis is the reason for the hunchbacks. I am sure if you do not do exercises for that when you are at the computer all the time, it could do some harm to your back. My son is a computer consultant and in front of a computer all the time, he has back pain. He did tell me that he started do back exercises and now his back is better. My sister is becoming like that, she is older woman, but it is due to a bad back, and also degenerating spine. She is getting a rod put in her back, but only if her bones are strong enough. There are medications for thin bones, for osteoporosis, there is Fosamax. For other just thinning bones, there is calcium, 1200 mg., per day, and Evista. Your doctor will have to determine that and also goes along with your age, and back problems. They do a bone density test to determine if women are getting thin bones when they get older. If they do, they put them on medication, but sometime, it just becomes bent over, which is very sad. My mother became bent over before she died, at 87 1/2. DO NOT SLOUCH OR YOU CAN
START TO LOOK HUNCHED OVER, PULL YOURSELF UP STRAIGHT AND STAY THAT WAY.
2006-09-15 06:29:57 · answer #2 · answered by shardf 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't listen to some of these people. Slouching has nothing to do with a hump on your back. It's caused by osteoporosis, plain and simple. Slouching just gives you bad posture.
2006-09-16 11:45:56 · answer #3 · answered by pegasus_1174 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Birth defect. Hunchbutt from slouching.
2006-09-15 06:30:21 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
People who do alot of bending are more likely to develope hunchbacks
2006-09-15 06:27:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I will make a ridge on your back as you get older, especially if you have weak bones.
CT
2006-09-15 06:24:03 · answer #6 · answered by lostintheclover 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
huh? the bells the bells!
2006-09-15 06:23:47 · answer #7 · answered by Nottingham man 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
stop being campanologist
2006-09-18 04:04:53 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
dont start ringing church bells!
2006-09-15 06:23:48 · answer #9 · answered by Senorita 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋