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Sympathetic Dominance occurs when a certain area of the brain (mesencephalon) is wound – up. This can be influenced by lifestyle, stress, posture and other things. Enter our friend the posture pole. Using one of these simple devices for up to 15 mins at least once a day can help you passively change your posture. This helps open the chest area to reduced wind- up and align the head in neutral position. Sympathetic Dominance occurs when you stay in fight or flight mode for too long. It suppresses the digestive, reproductive and immune systems. If someone is in a chronic state of sympathetic wind up, they will have shoulders like concrete and may experience tight, aching calf muscles. This is all the action of the red nuclei.

The Edinger Westphal Nucleus – which constricts the pupil when someone has been in sympathetic dominance mode for too long. The point of the posture pole is to not only correct posture, but also to de-stress. While you are laying on the posture pole, it’s important to try and switch off – use of phones and other devices are not advised during this exercise.

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To understand what a posture pole is and why we prescribe to it most of our patients, you have to understand what poor posture is and what it’s doing to your body long term. What is poor posture and what does it do to the body? While the Autonomic Nervous System is largely automatic, we can actually have an impact on it. We can restore it to parasympathetic mode.

The way our muscles are distributed on our body is different on the top and bottom half of our body if we draw a line horizontally across the body at the level of the shoulder blades (about the midpoint of the spinal column) When your head drops forward and your shoulders round forward, this sends an immediate signal to the brain to activate the Sympathetic nervous system (aka fight or flight response). This response should only be activated when there is an immediate threat to your survival, which requires immediate action (i.e. to fight or to run away). Prolonged stress can cause the following: This is why we prescribe posture poles and other types of exercises to help improve poor posture. What is a posture pole? The correct way to lay on a posture pole is by having your arms stretched out with your palms facing up, having your knees bent and feet flat on the floor. The posture pole must go length ways down your spine and must support your head and tail bone – this is very important! Our Nervous System is made up of 3 major parts; The Central Nervous System, Peripheral and Autonomic Nervous Systems. The Central Nervous System is comprised of our brain and spinal cord. The Peripheral Nervous System is all the nerves that come off the brain and spinal cord and go to all the tissues and organs of your body.

But like anything if we understand why we are doing something, we are more likely to follow through with it and be more consistent if we are clear about the purpose and the end goal of our actions.