Video: Summary: Good posture for your future

﻿Hi there, my name is Sophie Brazier, I'm a children's physiotherapist. Thank you for joining me today where we are going to be summarising the topic of posture. We're going to start by recapping all the things we've been talking about when we've been looking at posture. And then we will finish with a nice game for you today. So for the game, you would just need a partner, so it might be a good idea to ask a parent or carer to help you with that. So shall we get started? I would just like to give you a little message from our team. We as therapists have tried to think of a best way to continue to support children, young people and their families. So you may be watching this as a child by yourself, or you might be with a parent or carer. We will be exploring topic areas that we regularly provide advice and support on across all ages and abilities. And each lesson, we will aim to give you some ideas and activities that can be carried out either at home or in school. You may already have specific programmes that you're using or advice that has been given to you by your child's school or therapist. So please make sure that you're using any information I'm giving you alongside anything you already have. And if you do have any questions, or would like help tailoring this to their needs, then please make sure you get in contact with your local therapy service. I think perhaps now, we'll go through a summary of posture, and looking at some points for good posture for your future. So having a good posture will help good alignment which can help prevent excessive strain on your joints and muscles. It can reduce the risk of pain and injury which is what you want to prevent, and it can mean there's less tension and having lots of tension around this area here on your shoulders can mean that you can get headaches. So actually having a good posture will mean that you get less headaches. Having a good or ideal posture can really boost your mood because if your posture's feeling good, your muscles are feeling good, you have more energy, and this can affect your mood. And this can then affect your concentration, so having a good posture can help your concentration. And it can really help your focus because you aren't need to be worrying about what your body's doing, you'll be adopting those good postures so you'll have more energy to focus on the task that you're doing. And this leads to an increase in your energy levels. And a point that I also think is worth mentioning again is that a good or ideal posture can help improve your breathing. So whatever position that you're in, whether you're lying, sitting or standing, remembering all those things with posture in those positions will help with your breathing. Having those good postures and those positions will mean you're able to create more space so your lungs can do their job correctly. And in the sitting position, having a good posture means that you'll be able to take a nice deep breath, so your breathing will be much improved. We went through this slide in lesson one when we looked at what is posture. So I thought it'll be good just to go back to it again to remind you the importance of your spine. So the spine is your backbone. It is designed to protect and allow movement but it also provides stability, and it has the really important job to keep you moving in different directions. I'd like to show you again the model of the spine, just so you can remember how important it is to look after it. With all this amazing detail in these parts of our body, we need to make sure that we're maintaining those nice natural curves to keep our spine nice and healthy. And to summarise with some points to remember. Let's think about the really important things you should think about. If there's one thing you'll take away from today's lesson, let it be think up and growing tall. Remember a piece of string being attached to your head and pulling you up, so you're really growing tall in your spine, so you don't need to think about bringing the shoulders back and staying upright, it's more about relaxing, having those more natural postures, but growing tall from the top of your head. And also remember to think about your different types of postures. So you might have postures that are still, so your static postures, or your posture when you're moving, so your more dynamic postures. And also, the different types of postures you can be in that we've looked at. So your lying posture, your sitting posture, and your standing posture. And the last key things here, build some changes into everyday, don't try and make all the changes in one go. And remember, some more changes with your posture will make a big difference in the longer term and ultimately, give you a better posture for your future. So you might have heard of this game or played this game before maybe at school or with some friends, it's an activity and we've called it make a bean shape game. So the idea behind it is that I would like you to think about how your spine is changing shape when you're moving into all these different types of positions. But also have some fun with it at the same time. So what I'd like you to do is pretend to be different types of bean as someone calls them out. And as you're doing that, think about how your spine is changing to make these different shapes. So you'll have a baked bean, a frozen bean, a jelly bean and a runner bean. And if you watch the video where I demonstrate and then pause it, you can play the game. What I'd like you to do now is have a go at playing the make a bean shape game. So what you need is someone to call out the names of the beans and as they call them out, you need to change into that shape. So I'll demonstrate now the different positions and you can give this a try. So the first one that someone might call out is a baked bean. So if somebody call out baked bean, you have to curl up into a ball like a baked bean. If they call out frozen bean, you have to be up, nice and tall, standing still like a frozen bean. It's a jelly bean, so you have to do wobbly arms, you're going to move those arms, and look at how your spine's changing shape when you make a wobbly bean shape, and you're a nice jelly bean. The fourth one is a runner bean so you have to run on the spot. So those are the four bean shapes. So you need a parent or a carer to call out the beans and you change the position and keep going with the position until they call out the next one. And it can be quite a lot of fun. If you pause the video now, you can go away and have a go at that game. To make it a little bit more challenging, you can add in a few other bean shapes. So I'll demonstrate those now and you can see if you like those. So another one to add in is a jumping bean, so you're going to jump with two feet like this and the last one is time for you to go a bit crazy and it's called the magic bean. So you can just run around the room, moving your arms and legs, in any shape you like. So you can change shape, you can make a star shape, you could curl up, you could make any shape you want. You could make that activity a little bit easier if you wanted by doing it sitting on a chair. You can also do it for a short amount of time. So to make it a little bit easier, do it for the last time and if you want to make it a bit harder, play the game for a little bit longer. So pause the video now, and go away, and have a think about those things to make it a little bit harder or perhaps a little bit easier. So you can extend the game by adding in different types of beans as I showed you in the video. You could be a jumping bean, or you can add in a magic bean as well. And to make it easier, you could do the activity in sitting on a chair or you can even do it on the floor and just change the shapes that you have so you don't need to do it in standing if you're unable to. And as always, if you'd like to make it easier do the activity for a short amount of time. Pause the video now and perhaps give those things a go. Great, well done if you joined in that game. It actually can make you pretty out of breath so it's a good workout for you as well. And that now brings us to the end of our lesson today, and also to the end of our topic of posture. So all I want to say is thank you very much and if you've joined me for all the lessons I hope you found them useful. So now take care and I hope to see you again soon. Good bye.

Lesson summary: Summary: Good posture for your future

This lesson is a summary of posture, and thinking about things to remember from the whole unit on Posture. It includes a game to end the unit, getting you to think about how your spine changes shape in different positions.

Summary: Good posture for your future

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