Hey, everybody is Doctor Jo. And today I'm going to show you how
to improve sitting posture with a seat cushion. So let's get started.
The folks that Aylio sent me their socket seat cushion, and this is the one I'm going to be
using today, we're gonna talk a little bit about proper posture, when you're sitting just to make
sure that you don't irritate your back, you don't irritate your neck or your hips, or your knees.
And so the biggest thing about making sure you have good sitting posture is you want your hips
and your knees to be at about a 90 degree angle. And I know it might not always look 90 degrees
with the camera angle. But as you can see, I'm at a 90/90 degree and that's what you want,
you want your feet to be flat on the floor or the surface that you're sitting on. So if you
might be kind of short and you can't shorten the seat, get either a box or a little thing that
you can put your feet on, because you really want about this angle, because if you're up too high,
you're going to have a lot of pinching in your hip. And if you're down low, you're going to get
a lot of pressure on the bottom of your legs. So that's why you want about that 90/90 degree,
you also want to be sitting up tall, a lot of times people will kind of slouch down when they're
sitting for a long time, because that's just kind of naturally how our bodies want to go.
But then you end up irritating your back, you put a lot of stress on parts of your back that don't
get that stress. And you also want to sit kind of with your shoulders back again, you people tend
to lean forward, especially when they're sitting, they lean forward, if there may be on the computer
or something and their neck goes forward. So the great thing I like about cushions in general,
is they help you get that posture where it kind of puts your hips in a good neutral position.
And if you can see if I'm slouching, when I turn my hips forward or get them in that nice 90 degree
position, my whole body sits more upright. And even if you have bad posture, and you've done this
for a while, if you get up into this position, it might be uncomfortable. But once you get used to
it, that's where you want to be, because that will help kind of protect all those areas and make sure
you're not over stretching muscles, or overworking muscles that aren't supposed to be overworked. So
one of the really cool things I like about the Aylio socket seat is you can see it's a little
bit different than some cushions that may be what you've seen in the past, because it has these two
openings right here. And this is really for what people call those sit bones are. They're really
your ischial tuberosity bones, that kind of those hard, bony areas that you sit on. So that's why a
lot of people call them your sit bones. So this space in here takes away a lot of that pressure.
And what's good for that a lot of times is maybe like sciatic pain, or that piriformis syndrome,
where that sciatic nerve comes through there. And if you're sitting on a hard surface, it puts a lot
of pressure there. This opens up that pressure, which is really nice. It also has this little
indention, which goes in the back of the seat for your tailbone, so it takes off pressure there too,
as well. So that's a really nice component of that. You can also see here, it might not be quite
as easy to see, but there is a slight angle or a wedge here, which again, helps kind of put the
hips in that nice neutral posture. So you might see that this is a little shorter than the side.
And it's supposed to be that way. So just just so you know. And then what I really like about here
is it has these contours for where your legs go. So like I mentioned, if you if you have
your feet a little bit lower, you get a lot of pressure underneath kind of the hamstring area,
or the back of the thigh area right there. And that can put pressure sometimes on the nerve,
which will give you that numbness tingling in your feet in your legs or give you that heavy fatigue
feeling. So it has a lot of different components here. And it also has this mesh technology,
that kind of it makes it airy, so then it doesn't get so hot. So it makes it breathable, which is
really nice as well, because a lot of times with traditional foams, they get really hot but this is
a nice memory foam. So it kind of has that nice give into it so it helps form to your specific
body. And you can also see you can take, you can unzip this and take the top off and wash
it. So that makes it really nice too. So you can keep it clean as you use it. So I'm going to just
kind of sit on it again, this piece goes to the back part right there. And then you can see that
you know where my sit bones go right in those, those open areas, which is really nice because
it's really comfortable. But as you can see, when I sit on it, I want to tend to sit sit up higher,
you know, it's a little harder to slouch on the cushion. So that's why using a cushion makes it
really nice, especially if you're sitting a lot throughout the day, you know working from home
or something like that. It's nice to have that extra protection, that extra cushioning because a
lot of chairs have some, but they're not really designed. Like where those openings are those
contours already give you that extra protection to really Make sure you're not getting pressure,
you know, on the sit bones on your tailbone where that nerve comes out or just on the
muscles in general, you know, if you're getting a lot of pressure on your hamstrings,
your piriformis muscle, things like that, it's going to really cause some pain in the long run.
Now, if you put the, if you had your chair set up, and then you put the cushion, make sure again,
that you want to get the hips and the knees about at a 90 degree position. So again, if you have to,
you know, put your foot on something, even if it's just a little board to come up a little bit. If
you don't have an adjustable chair, that's usually the best way to do it. So if you're interested in
purchasing the Aylio socket seat, make sure and click on the link up there. And don't forget to
subscribe by clicking down there. And remember, be safe, have fun, and I hope you feel better soon.
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