Rounded shoulders and forward head posture are a linked postural syndrome where the upper spine collapses forward, the chest closes, the shoulder blades flare outward, and the head drifts in front of the body's center of gravity.
Wall angels are a posture correction exercise where the spine is held flat against a wall while the arms move through a V-to-W arc, training thoracic extension, shoulder mobility, and upper back engagement simultaneously.
Chest opening for posture is the practice of systematically stretching shortened anterior muscles and reactivating weakened posterior muscles to restore natural spinal alignment and rib cage mobility.
Rounded shoulders are a postural imbalance where the shoulder blades shift forward and outward from their neutral position, causing the chest to cave inward and the upper back to round - driven by tightness in the anterior shoulder structures and weakness in the posterior scapular stabilisers.
