Has swimming helped improve your posture and spine?
Former Member
I think it's obvious that regular swimming should help improve posture, especially the spine. I feel it even makes us walk better. What are your experiences? I was a little surprised to have seen quite a few swimmers (mostly women in their 50's-60's) with hunchbacks where I swim. They go swimming almost every day, but the curved spines are very visible when they do freestyle. Was it that they took up swimming after having already developed spine problems? Otherwise, if they had been swimming most of their lives, shouldn't they have a great physique?
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Former Member
I was a little surprised to have seen quite a few swimmers (mostly women in their 50's-60's) with hunchbacks where I swim. They go swimming almost every day, but the curved spines are very visible when they do freestyle. Was it that they took up swimming after having already developed spine problems? Otherwise, if they had been swimming most of their lives, shouldn't they have a great physique?
The curved spines that you are seeing are most likely caused by osteoporosis.
This illustration might help:
www.med.umich.edu/.../aha_osp_art.htm
And this article:
www.med.umich.edu/.../osteo.htm
I was a little surprised to have seen quite a few swimmers (mostly women in their 50's-60's) with hunchbacks where I swim. They go swimming almost every day, but the curved spines are very visible when they do freestyle. Was it that they took up swimming after having already developed spine problems? Otherwise, if they had been swimming most of their lives, shouldn't they have a great physique?
The curved spines that you are seeing are most likely caused by osteoporosis.
This illustration might help:
www.med.umich.edu/.../aha_osp_art.htm
And this article:
www.med.umich.edu/.../osteo.htm
