Posture Correction Cost

At present, there is no unified standard for the cost of posture correction in China. It ranges from a few hundred yuan for online training courses to more than 100,000 yuan for surgical intervention. The specific cost depends entirely on the severity of your problem, the intervention path you choose, and the professional qualifications of the institution/operator.

Last year, I helped my cousin, who is a junior in college, find a solution to correct her rounded shoulders and hunched back. She was looking for a cheap solution at the beginning and spent 99 yuan to buy a 7-day correction and exercise course from a certain blogger. She followed it for 20 minutes every day. After half a month, her shoulders did feel better. However, after sitting in the library for 6 hours, they immediately shrank back to shrimp. Later, I found a fitness studio in front of the community. The rehabilitation coach cost 380 per class. Buy 12 classes and get 2 classes free. The total cost was more than 4,000. Now, even if I sit for a day to catch up on papers, I won’t habitually hold my breasts. This is also the consumption scenario for most people: mild to moderate functional problems caused by bad habits, such as rounded shoulders, high and low shoulders, false hip width, and mild lower cross syndrome, can basically be solved for a few thousand to 20,000 yuan. If you are in a high-end rehabilitation studio in a first-tier city and the teachers are team doctors or have a medical background, the price for a single class will be 800-1200, and the number for 20 or 30 classes will not exceed 30,000, which is within the range that ordinary white-collar workers can afford.

Of course, there are cheaper options. Many people go to traditional Chinese medicine clinics for bone setting and massage. A single bone setting at a community health center only costs more than 100. After a dozen times, one or two thousand can lead to significant improvements. Even well-known bone setting doctors in the industry will mostly not charge more than 1,000 for a single visit. Here we must also talk about the controversy that has always existed in the industry: Practitioners of the sports rehabilitation school always complain that bone setting is "treating the symptoms but not the root cause." The bones are broken back, but the surrounding muscle strength cannot keep up, and they will return to their original shape within half a month. ； Practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine and bone setting also feel that rehabilitation classes are too "redundant". They can put the misaligned structures back into place three or five times, and then just practice some basic movements at home. There is no need to spend tens of thousands of yuan to buy dozens of classes. Both sides are reasonable. Which one you choose depends entirely on your own living habits - if you can insist on exercising independently every day, bone setting is indeed more cost-effective. If you can't control yourself, it is safer to have someone watch you and practice rehabilitation.

But if you go to the hospital and take a full-spine X-ray, which shows structural scoliosis with a Cobb angle of more than 40 degrees, and you already have symptoms of back pain and difficulty breathing, don’t hang around outside institutions. You must go for medical intervention. The cost of surgery is about 100,000-150,000 yuan for domestically produced consumables, and about 200,000 yuan for imported ones. In most areas, medical insurance can reimburse 30%-60%, so it is not too exaggerated to calculate the out-of-pocket cost. If the Cobb angle is between 20 and 40 degrees, you only need a customized brace + regular rehabilitation training. The total cost is usually between 10,000 and 50,000, which is much more cost-effective than surgery.

In the past two years, I have seen a lot of people who spent a lot of money on this matter. In order to correct XO legs, a young girl spent more than 8,000 to buy an internet celebrity's "legging suit + personal training". After practicing for half a month, her knees hurt so much that she couldn't walk. She went to the hospital to check whether the meniscus was worn.； There are also parents who paid 80,000 yuan for their children's "bone-setting annual card" to treat scoliosis. Half a year later, the scoliosis degree increased by 5 degrees when they went for a review. In the end, they went to the hospital to wear a brace. If you really want to spend less money, the first step is to go to the orthopedics department of a tertiary hospital to take a X-ray. First, distinguish whether it is a pathological problem or a functional problem caused by bad habits. Don't listen to the "guaranteed cure" by institutional salesmen.

If you are a student with a limited budget, you don't have to buy private lessons at all. You can spend tens of dollars to buy a regular sports blogger's system and practice classes, and spend 20 minutes a day to follow them. If you insist on it for three months, the effect may not be worse than private lessons worth tens of thousands. Oh, by the way, when choosing courses, don’t believe in the gimmicks of “Correcting XO Legs in 7 Days” or “Cure High and Low Shoulders in 3 Days”. If such results are achieved, the rehabilitation department of the hospital will be closed down.

To be honest, when it comes to posture correction, the more money you spend, the better the effect. Even if you spend 100,000 to find the best coach, go to work and be paralyzed for 8 hours, and then sit on the sofa and scroll through your phone when you get home, even gods can’t save you. To put it bluntly, half of the money you spend is to pay for the guidance of professionals to help you avoid pitfalls, and the other half is to buy the binding force of someone watching you. Whether it is worth it or not, in the end, it all depends on whether you can put the corrected habits into your usual sitting, lying and walking.