11 Best Posture Corrector Devices for Home and Office 2018

April 29,2024

The best posture corrector devices and products for reducing head and neck pain for home and the office, recommended by chiropractors, includes Varidesk standing desk, Tempur-Pedic pillow, Chiroflow pillow, Upright Go app, and lumbar-support pillows..
If your job requires you to look up and down between your screen and papers on your desk, Lefkowitz recommends a monitor document clip “to reduce head and eye movements when working on your computer.” Keeping everything at eye level cuts down on posture-disrupting motions. .
For those of us with shorter legs, sitting all day is even more detrimental. “If your legs don’t quite reach the ground comfortably when you sit, it can worsen posture and cause back pain,” says Lefkowitz. Potasznik agrees that it’s important to “have something to allow your feet to rest comfortably on the floor,” like this portable, foldable footrest. With a sliding panel for adjustable surface area, it can also be made small enough to fit in tight spaces like under an airplane seat. .
In addition to relieving neck and back pain, a pillow that encourages proper spinal alignment positively affects your posture during the day. “A heavier-density pillow like the one Tempur-Pedic can help a person relearn proper head and neck position while they sleep,” Perna says. Keep in mind, though, that because the pillow stretches muscles that may be tight in those with poor posture, it may take a few nights to adjust to sleeping with it. .
While there are lots of braces and posture correctors on the market to wear on the go, the chiropractors we spoke with don’t recommend relying on one. “Forcing your body to have good posture by wearing a brace can lead to more muscle weakness as you become dependent on it,” says Lefkowitz. A techy alternative, the Upright Go is a small sensor worn on the back linked to an app that will alert you when you need to adjust your position, and tracks your posture throughout the day, wherever you are. Perna says the device is preferable to a brace because it “creates active use to achieve the results, actually making the person improve themselves.”