There are many causes of bad posture. Some are environmental causes and others may be due to heredity. Bad posture causes many health problems. It reduces the physical output or efficiency to a great extent. It leads to psychological stress, bad looking, less social acceptance, etc. It is a major cause of many postural problems like Kyphosis, Round shoulders, Lordosis, Scoliosis, Knock-knees, Bow legs, Flat-foot, etc. Bad posture can easily be corrected and prevented if early steps are taken. Some of the general causes of bad posture are given below:
Causes of bad posture
- Accident : Sometimes bad posture arises due to accidents. It may cause postural deformity.
- Disease : Many kinds of health problems like diseases, illnesses and chronic sickness cause bad posture.
- Lack of Nutritional Diet : Sometimes bad posture arises due to unbalanced diet, over-diet, under-diet and lack of nutritional diet.
- Wrong Postural Habits : The wrong sitting posture or wrong postural habits during sitting, standing, lying, working, etc. cause bad posture.
- Improper Treatment : Sometimes the improper treatment wrong treatment for curing injury causes bad posture or postural deformity.
- Psychological Stress : Psychological stress in life leads to mental tension, unbalanced emotions or behavioural changes. Sometimes it leads to postural deformity.
- Lack of Sufficient Strength : The poor muscular strength or the unbalanee strength of antagonist and antagonist muscles cause postural deformity.
- Age Factor : In old age the muscular strength reduces. Thus, bad posture may arise.
- Poor Eyesight : Poor eyesight causes strain over head and neck. Thus, body bends forward and it may cause bad posture.
- Bad Shoes or Clothing : In some cases, bad posture arises due to poor quality shoes or clothing
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