By Lauren • 14 Comments
One of the most common reasons that women look for ways to reduce neck and shoulder pain is because the heavy handbags they often carry are causing them trouble. But this pain is often the indicator of more serious health problems developing, so if you’re starting to suffer, it’s time to seriously consider some ways to reduce neck and shoulder pain caused by your handbag. Here are some tips that should help you get started.
If you need to carry lots of things, try to avoid bunging it all into one bag. If you take two, you can spread the weight, which is both more comfortable and better for your body.
One of the most obvious tips for reducing neck and shoulder pain is to reduce the amount of stuff in your handbag. The best way to do this is to de-clutter at the end of each day, ensuring that you only take what you need for each day. You might need a bit of a spring-clean to get you started, and from then it will be easy.
It’s important to always try and maintain a good posture and especially so when carrying a heavy handbag. Experts say that women tend to lift and tense the shoulder carrying a handbag, when really you should try to keep it relaxed and level with your other shoulder.
Whether you’ve got children that want to take things everywhere or just a partner who never has big enough pockets, many of us find ourselves putting things in our handbag that don’t even belong to us. Try making a new rule that anything that they aren’t prepared to carry (excluding essentials like medication, tissues and so on) stays at home.
Hopefully these tips for reducing neck and shoulder pain will help us all to consider our bodies more carefully when filling our handbags – I could do with remembering a few of these myself! How much stuff do you carry in your handbag and does it cause you any problems?