PLEASE NOTICE: I’M NOT A DOCTOR, ORTHOPAEDIST OR OSTEOPATH
I’m a just a woman who’s had back issues. I’m here to share my experience and what I know about it with you.
MAKE YOUR EXPERIENCE A RESOURCE
26 has been the years which I got to know and understand what mean live with a “unbalance”. Yes I wanna call it simply an unbalance, I won’t to talk about issues, diseases or disability. why? Officially an issue, a disease, a disability identify a person that’s not able to use their body in normal way, or in other words, they live with a physical or mental condition that make them unable to live their life like others. That sound so negative! Many people react at that condition living their life normally, finding a sense or supporting others simply talking about it, inspiring them throught solidarity activites. Theese are just some example, but theese are for me some of the ways to transform issues, diseases, disabilites in “only unbalances”. Helping others, throught personal experiences, changes positively our mentality, changes our approach to our personal condition, help us to find a “new balances”. Since 26 years. Since when I was 8 I’m working to find my personal approach, my new balance.
WELCOME INTO “MY BACK CARE”
My name is Raffaella Scognamiglio, I’m italian and I’m living and working in London since 3 years. I’m a young woman and I’ve an unbalance.
I was born in a province of Naples in the South of Italy, Torre del Greco is its name a city near the sea. I grew up with taste of salt, sunny and warm mediterranean wheather, genuine and handmade food with loving care of my parents. I know what mean have a lot of handmade bottles of tomato sauce scattered in the kitchen, or wake up early on sunday morning for to prepare a base for tagliatella pasta ready fo the lunch, let grow up rosemary, chilly and mint plants on the balcony of house or prepare nice apple cake or a tiramisù full of scented coffee patientely prepared with italian moka.
But in this atmosphere, soon, I realized to have a distorcion on my back, it twisted causing pain to me, marking my young age. Scoliosi was the diagnosis. One of the serious cases. The operation was the solution for all orthopaedist, but I never felt to do it and my parents too. I was 14 and we decided for an anternative treatment. For the following 6 years I saw the doctors constantly, wearing orthopedic corsets, went in the hospital for to get orthopedic plaster cast corset as well and I made specific excercises for to try to correct my problem. They’re not been peaceful years of my life, not totally. After that I stopped to do all these things, on purpose, to make my choices, study and live my life free from that.
Around 7 years ago, I have been in a private studio of an orthopedist at Naples for my last visit for to check the state on my back because it begun to cause pain to me again. I was really scared about that. I didn’t want to wear orthopedic corset again or worse, to get an operation. I remember well what He said to me and never I forgot it: “You can do anything. Do what you prefer and please don’t stop, anymore!”
It was in that moment that I discovered a practice that I never more left, a method that I practice every day or when I have time and that it made my muscle more strengthed, the best way and the best thing to support the back and prevent any pain to it, specially to backs with issues. Pilates Method specifc for the back care helped me, my twisted vertebrae and my muscles. With that exercises method, that’s now is similar at Yoga practice in some poses, I discovered some things about me, that is my elastic ligaments that they have allowed to me to practice Pilates in a good way, but also improve it, improve my balance, my concentration and breathing as well, that they are the basics to reach a great state of body and mind.
YOUR POSTURE YOUR FUTURE
Right posture and keep it in a good condition is the basis for preventing any causes of pain in your body or issues. It needs costant reviewing for avoid to take on bad habits and preserve a good state of it for long time and we have to know how to do it. But knowledge is not enought if you haven’t a continue attention at look after it, if you don’t think that that’s important. Often our posture is originated from our thoughts.
Remember this: your appearance is result of what you’re thinking.
Videos below, that I want insert here for integrate my posts, can show you how to fix bad posture easily and also how to do some exercises to prevent any pain on the back or extend the spine, userful every time you need, especially after work where we have to keep some positions for all day and our body gets tired and where often we can’t be careful to it.
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