Fix uneven hips and posture with these simple exercises

It's natural for hips to be slightly uneven. Mint explores the reasons and finds easy workouts to strengthen them

- Pulasta Dhar

In order to improve your posture and get rid of back pain, one of the key things that you should work on is your hip mobility and alignment. These twin issues can be fixed with simple exercises, but where should you begin?

The first thing you need to know is that it is actually very difficult to stand on both feet with an equal amount of pressure. The human body, due to its alignment at the pelvic bone, usually tends to put more pressure on the right leg than the left. That is because the left hemipelvis is usually more externally rotated and the right one more internally rotated. Nevertheless, in spite of the hip's importance in postural anatomy, it wasn't something that was taught to us in school. So, let's begin by understanding that this imbalance (in the hip) is a natural adjustment the body makes not just for functional activities but for deeper reasons, which relate to cardiac health, and possibly, the positioning of organs in the body. Which is all quite fascinating.