What is the correct posture of standing?

Asked by: Karen Chen

When standing, keep these tips in mind: Stand straight and tall with your shoulders back. Keep your head level and in line with your body. Pull in your abdomen.

What is the normal way to stand?

To stand correctly, make sure your feet are hip-width apart and your toes are pointing forward. You should also shift your weight onto the balls of your feet to prevent leg, hip, and back problems. Make sure to maintain a very slight bend in your knees while standing to avoid increasing stress on your joints.

What is the balanced position for standing?

To stand upright, you must balance your body over your feet. Your spine should be aligned over your pelvis, with your weight evenly distributed between your feet. Many people stand with more weight over one foot or with their weight over only part of their feet.

Should you stand with your feet straight?

Your posture while standing should look like a straight line from the ankle to the hip to the shoulder. Slightly bend the knees to prevent cutting off circulation to the legs and hold the weight of your body mostly on the balls of your feet. Your feet should also be about shoulder-width apart.

Should your knees be bent when standing?

Knees should be “soft” and not locked. Locking your knees forces the pelvis and chest to be pushed out, which causes undo stress on the lower back. It is also difficult to maintain proper balance in an unnatural posture. The pelvis should be in a neutral position, with the sternum facing straight ahead.

Why do my knees go back when I stand?

Genu recurvatum syndrome is a condition, rather than an injury, where the knee chronically hyperextends. This means that anytime you fully straighten the knee, it extends backwards past the normal neutral resting point of the knee. This happens with you are standing, sitting or lying down.

How can I straighten my legs?

Keep your knee where it is so keep your knee joint the actual joint nice and straight don't let it wander. And then everything else is just this muscle shortening.

Why do my legs bend forward when I stand?

Lordosis is often due to an imbalance between the muscles surrounding the pelvic bones. Weak muscles used to lift the leg forward (hip flexors) combined with tight muscles used to arch the back (back extensors), can cause an increased pelvic tilt, limiting movement of the lower back.

Why do I have trouble standing up straight?

Poor posture causes chronic, repetitive stress to muscles, tendons and ligaments that can lead to painful trigger points and muscle spasms. Poor posture can lead to abnormal curvatures of the spine, like kyphosis, or what all call Quasimodo back. Yes, this name comes from the character in The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.

How can I stand up and sit straight?

And put your shoulders in the right position. Just very simply turn your palms to face forward. And you'll notice that that brings the shoulder blades toward. One another it retracts the shoulder