How to reduce the harm caused by sedentary work

Usually all the tips revolve around how to sit less and move more. However, no less important and how and what we are sitting.

Xenia Razin

Engineer education mathematician profession layfhaker in the shower.

One of the main problems arising from the long sitting at the computer - it's not lack of exercise, and stooped posture.

Why do we slouch

It turns out that any chair with a horizontal seat interferes with the body to take physiologic position. Due Length of femur, lying on the horizontal surface of the chair, in the pelvis torque occurs. Pelvis tends to lean back, back is rounded, and we slouch. This is natural, and do not blame us, and our chairs.

As a result of rounding the lumbar load on the intervertebral discs increases by 10-11 times diseases of the spine. The Complete Reference. - M.: Eksmo, 2008.. Developing osteochondrosis, protrusion and hernia.

physiologic seat

In 70-ies in Europe, doctors have wondered why the children swinging on the chairs. It turned out when tilting the seat of the pelvis and spine are taking a natural position. Then we began the development of chairs with an inclined seat. That man is not rolled with them, the design has been added emphasis knee and was called "knee-chair» (kneeling chairs). These chairs are also called orthopedic: they are indispensable for those people who already had serious back pain from sedentary work.

The second type of physiological chairs are chairs, saddles (saddle chair), simulating a landing on horseback. On such a posture chair close to the standing position. However, work standing up all day is not so easy, as opposed to working on a saddle chair.

The principal difference between the physiological any chair is that it provides an obtuse angle between the thighs and body.

Loin takes anatomically correct position of the retaining bends. As a result, comfortable feeling, not only they, but all higher parts of the spine, chest and straightened his shoulders.

Of course, no one chair does not guarantee health. But to achieve the result it is very important not only to add to his life utility, such as physical exercise, but also to address the underlying hazards. For example, replace the conventional chairs that day quietly stealing the resources of our body.

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