What Can Be Done About The Dowager’s Hump aka The Widow’s Hump?

What can be done about the dowager’s hump? This is a question I get all the time in my chiropractic office. Lately, its been with young women that have no visible signs of the widow’s hump developing, but are concerned. Maybe they ve just spent some time with a relative that has one.

The women that are the most concerned about it, however, are those that are already showing signs of developing the dowager’s hump. Here’s a sign; you can no longer fasten your bra in the back. You have to turn it around to the front, fasten it and then move it around to the back. This can seem like a small thing, but it’s definitely a warning sign.

Here’s another sign; you can’t stand up straight. So it’s no longer about remembering good posture because it’s not even an option for you. No one thinks that someone with a dowager’s hump is having trouble remembering to have good posture anymore, right? At some point it no longer was about remembering when the spine changed shape.

Developing the widow’s hump has two parts to it; bad posture and osteoporosis. The posture issue starts the slumping forward process and the osteoporosis leads to the vertebrae changing shape once they begin to collapse on themselves. Once the vertebrae have changed shape, the change is permanent. While it’s not too late to take action and keep things from getting worse, it is too late to prevent the dowager’s hump totally.

So what’s the best course of action? Start doing something about your posture as soon as possible.

The trap is when you think you’re doing something about your posture when you’re really not. Perhaps you’ve bought a new mattress, some type of support, or you’ve started going to the gym and performing random exercises. If you don’t do the right activities, you only further delay getting the right thing done.

You’ll need to exercise, but not just any ol’ exercise will do. Specific exercises that work  the postural muscles most a risk for leading you down the road to getting the hump need to be addressed early and often. But how do you have any idea of what to do? How can you figure out which are the right muscles to work? 

I started down that road long ago. Thankfully, I had the anatomy background to devise the right exercises — and it still took some trial and error to figure out which moves created the fastest and longest lasting results. Would you like to learn more? To get the best exercises to prevent the dowager’s hump, CLICK HERE.

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