
07/17/2025
THERAPY THURSDAY
Raise your hand 🖐 if you’ve been hunched over your computer too much this week? This summer?
We’ve chatted before about the importance of good posture, effects bad posture has on potential neck and back pain.
This is an easy and great exercise to help reverse that hunching, engaging the back body musculature, helping you maintain better posture for longer periods of time. If our musculoskeletal system is balanced, our bodies feel good. The minute we spend too much time hunched over a computer, we start to get tight in our front (pectoralis muscles) and weak in our back muscles (lower trapezius and rhomboids), leading to pain.
This gentle exercise targets both the front of your body to stretch the pectoralis and strengthen the back body. It’s easy enough to try throughout your work day:
✔️ Squeeze your shoulder blades as you get your arms into the start position.
✔️ Focus on keeping those shoulder blades squeezing as you gently raise and lower your arms against the wall or door, only raising as far as either your shoulder range of motion allows or your back remains against the wall.
✔️ Repeat 10 times, at least 2 different times during your work day.
Give it a try and let us know what you think. Need some more info or help? Click the link in our bio and give us a jingle ☎️ or email 📧 or drop us a DM.