Do you Know Your Teeth Can Affect Your Posture and Balance
Try to carry a hen or chicken as you might know it to be, then try to move its body left and right while carrying it properly balanced on your hands. You will realize that while you move its body left and right, its head and eyes are properly balanced effortlessly, what our body tries to do thanks to the vestibular system.
The vestibular system is responsible for keeping track of orientation and space, and it is important in balancing. It is what is responsible for the locking of our eyes on something even when our body moves. Your ability to look at a beautiful lady like me constantly even when you are moving is thanks to your vestibular system.
It is not only your eyes that enjoys this balance, every part of your body does including when you want to lift weight in the gym, helping your muscles engage in a balanced way. As funny as it might sound, do you know that the position of your teeth can affect your posture and balance? The paper continued that the alignment of your bite can affect your posture as the position of your molar in a bite can affect this. If one side is higher than the other, it will tilt the head to one side, and they further wemt on to say that it could lead to scoliosis wjere the spine is bent from its normal position.
It might sound ridiculous but there are studies that show that your teeth alignment has a lot to do with your posture and balance, so for you people that find it hard to visit the dentist even when you do not have good set of teeth, I hope you do not start having disfugured postures soon.
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Wait, with a tongue depressor, you could feel the magic, not because it restores the teeth, but it makes your brain feel like evedything is fine with the teeth. It restores the felt sense of contact to the teeth allowing the nerves from the jaw to the brain to send message to the brain that all is fine. When the brain get signals of which teeth are touching, it sends relax or tense sinals to muscles arounf the body so as to shift its balance in response. If you cannot feel your teeth touching on one side, then your body weight shifts to the other.
You might not put too much attention on your mouth and teeth but multiple research has shown that biting down on your teeth or a bite allignment mouthpiece increases muscular strength. It can give more mobility in the cervical spine, and stability in theor stance. A study even associated children with dislocated hips to misaligned jaws. These studies are still new and a lot of them are still coming out but what do you think about your teeth and jaw position affecting your posture and balance?
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- https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7040114/
- https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3162939/
- https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08869634.2003.11746262
- https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6612379/
- https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/12/10/1029
- https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11385390/
- https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/08869634.1996.11745984
- https://bmjopensem.bmj.com/content/6/1/e000886
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/medgen/9258
- https://academic.oup.com/ejo/article/34/3/307/424676
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