Till now, you always thought that sitting staight in your office chair may help you avoid back pain. But the recent medical advice on preventing back pain is just the opposite.
By using advanced scanning equipment, doctors concluded that the best way to avoid back ache is not to sit bolt upright but to perfect a morelaid-back posture, a sprawl that is halfway between upright and horizontal.
Researchers at the Woodend Hospital, Aberdeen used positional MRI to take the snapshots of 22 volunteers’spines as they sat upright, slouched and hunched forward or laid back at an angle of 135 degrees.
It was observed that desk slouchers, are at a high risk of causing wear and tear to spinal discs in their lower spine. And those sitting upright also faired badly. The back vertical strain on the spine forced the spinal disc material to shift out of line.
It was noted that the safest posture, was the substantially more relaxed 135 degree backward sprawl, that puts the least strain on spinal disc and surrounding muscles and tendons.
So now if you notice your office colleagues sitting in a more relaxed position, reaching out for keyboards, do not fear. This may be the best posture after all !!!
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