Your posture has serious implications for your physical and emotional health.

Yoga isn’t the only way to improve your posture—exercises that stretch and strengthen your core, back, chest, and neck can ...

Your spine is keeping score—and it’s not thrilled.

As a child, being told to sit or stand up straight may have felt like a nuisance, but those adults in your life were on to something: Good posture helps you stay healthy and pain-free. “It can affect ...

Strangers try to fix my posture. According to them, my shoulders slump, and my neck protrudes on a diagonal, as though I’m constantly reading a book or peering down at a phone screen. My critics come ...

Dr. Brennan Spiegel, a gastroenterologist, found a connection between bloating and poor posture. Slouching causes the intestines to compress, making it harder to properly digest food. He said ...

A recent history of the 20th-century movement to fix slouching questions the moral and political dimensions of addressing bad backs over wider public health concerns. Skeletons used in a museum in ...

If you spend a lot of time on your computer or phone or sit for prolonged periods during work hours or otherwise, odds are you’ve wondered about the effect on your posture. If so, you’re right to be ...

If you spend a lot of time sitting on your computer or phone, odds are you’ve worried about the effect on your posture.